Hospital Response Survey Team in Christchurch

A team headed by Judith Mitrani-Reiser from Johns Hopkins University is in Christchurch during August 2011 to conduct a comparative survey of hospital personnel to document their facility’s preparedness and their overall performance in the sequence of recent earthquakes. A similar prior survey was conducted after Chile’s earthquake and will be conducted in El Centro and Mexicali as part of this project. This current effort is funded in part by the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center with a grant from the CA Seismic Safety Commission.