COMMUNICATION IN DISASTER MANAGEMENT

I. To increase the knowledge and understanding of the disaster phenomenon, its different contextual aspects, impacts and public health consequences.
II. To increase the knowledge and understanding of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UN-ISDR) and to increase skills and abilities for implementing the Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Strategy.
III. To ensure skills and abilities to analyze potential effects of disasters and of the strategies and methods to deliver public health response to avert these effects.
IV. To ensure skills and ability to design, implement and evaluate research on disasters.