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EvacuSpot: New Orleans creative approach to emergency preparedness

The CDC Foundation and CDC selected the “EvacuSpot” project as a Promising Example of the Whole Community Approach to Emergency Management. Evacuspot is creating unique evacuation signs as well as cultural landmarks in the city.

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Leading, Advocating: Tulane Physician Advocates for HIV Prevention

Dr. MarkAlain Déry spent more than a decade as a flight physician and was on the ground responding to patients in the aftermath of the January 2010 earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Today, as an instructor of clinical medicine at Tulane University’s School of Medicine in New Orleans, he is applying his expertise to a passion for HIV prevention and testing in a city that ranks among the nation’s highest in AIDS diagnoses.

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Planning Pays Off for Louisiana Bank Leader

David Rubin, assistant vice president of contingency planning for Whitney National Bank, leads the bank’s disaster preparedness and response efforts in New Orleans. A native of Louisiana, Rubin’s job was created after Hurricane Katrina proved how critical it was for businesses to ensure employees’ safety and security while keeping their doors open for business.

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Applying Lessons Learned: Catholic Charities Reaches Out With Lessons from Katrina

Like many who lived through Hurricane Katrina, Jim Kelly still vividly recalls the eerie aftermath of the flooding in New Orleans.

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Oil Spill - David Snyder Video
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Bringing Leaders Together in New Orleans - Video
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On the Frontlines of Disaster in New Orleans
Spent the last few days in New Orleans with the CDC Foundation. They were hosting a Meta-Leadership Summit there – the 20th of 36 Summits scheduled before the end of 2011. The irony of hosting the Summit in New Orleans right now is that Louisiana is dealing with the effects of the Gulf oil spill.
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Oil Spill Threatens Fisherman’s Way of Life

Past 60 now, his skin weathered by a life in the Gulf Coast sun, Darryl Eymard is hard to impress. He speaks as slowly as an outgoing tide, weighs his words with the care of a thinker and offers pearls of country wisdom across the console of his 18-foot johnboat.

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Katrina Responder Applies Lessons Learned to Oil Spill

If you watch her eyes as she drives slowly through the Lower 9th Ward, you can almost see the events of Hurricane Katrina unfolding again for Avis Gray. As the regional administrator for the Louisiana Office of Public Health in New Orleans, Gray was at ground zero when the levees surrounding the city broke and cannot forget what she saw in the weeks that followed.

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