Focusing on Children in Disasters: Evacuation Planning and Mental Health Recovery

Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Disaster Recovery

Tuesday, August 4, 2009
10:00 AM
Dirksen Senate Office Building, room 342

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Witnesses

Panel 1

• The Honorable W. Craig Fugate [view testimony]
  Administrator
  Federal Emergency Management Agency, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
• Rear Admiral Nicole Lurie, MD, MSPH [view testimony]
  Assistant Secretary for Preparedness, U.S. Public Health Service
  U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
• Ms. Cynthia A. Bascetta [view testimony]
  Director, Health Care
  U.S. Government Accountability Office

Panel 2

• Mr. Mark Shriver [view testimony]
  Vice President and Managing Director of U.S. Programs
  Save the Children
• Dr. Irwin Redlener [view testimony]
  President
  Children's Health Fund
• Ms. Teri Fontenot [view testimony]
  President and Chief Executive Officer
  Woman's Hospital