1. Mark Keim, MD Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

2. Pacific islanders carry the highest environmental disaster burden in the entire world n Environmental emergencies are becoming more frequent among all developing nations of the world 1 1 Noji, The Public Health Consequences of Disasters

3. First Pacific Health Summit for Sustainable Disaster Risk Management Summit I – 2004 Attended by 16 Health Ministers of the Pacific basin Developed the world’s first coordinated regional strategy for management of public health emergencies over the next decade Invited to present in plenary session of the Second World Congress for Disaster Reduction in Kobe, Japan

4. First Pacific Health Summit for Sustainable Disaster Risk Management Produced a regional declaration for risk management that named 32 objectives related to: Preparedness Mitigation Response Recovery

5. First Pacific Health Summit for Sustainable Disaster Risk Management CDC presented the Declaration of the 2004 Pacific Health Summit at the Second World Congress for Disaster Reduction in Hyogo, Japan in January 2005

6. 2nd Pacific Health Summit for Sustainable Disaster Risk Management Summit II – 2005 Attended by 19 Health Ministers and the world donor and NGO community Operationalized the objectives of Summit I into 16 international project proposals

7. 2nd Pacific Health Summit for Sustainable Disaster Management Sixteen project concept papers were published in the peer review literature Pacific Health Dialog, Vol.3. No. 1, March 2006

8. Reducing the Risk of Environmental Disasters for a Healthy Pacific Attended by 50 select professionals 30 organizations 12 countries 6 Health Ministries/Depts. Objectives Investigate and report the disaster hazards and vulnerabilities currently facing Pacific islanders Identify and prioritize opportunities for disaster risk reduction in Pacific Island countries and territories

9. Agenda

10. Outcomes and outputs Participants will: Participants will: hazards and vulnerabilities Identify and prioritize disaster hazards and vulnerabilities regional strategy Develop a regional strategy to reduce the risk of adverse health outcomes due to disasters project proposals Develop project proposals for reducing the risk of health emergencies in the Pacific Proceedings of the meeting will be available for: Proceedings of the meeting will be available for: Scientific publication Governmental and non- governmental funding and policy considerations

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