The Suburban Emergency Management Project (SEMP) is a global, knowledge-based organization focused on community-based disaster management. SEMP provides information about evidence-based disaster management assessment and good practices.

The SEMP website is offered as a free-of-charge educational service to the public. It is downloadable and carries no advertising. The educational component of the site is developed by Margaret R. O´Leary, M.D., M.B.A.

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Disaster Q & A: #280, #281, #282, #283
Biot Reports: #690a, #691, #692, #693, #694
Securitas Magazine: Oct/Nov/Dec 2009 Issue

• Dr. Gilbert Edmund Haggart´s Care of JFK´s Back
• Dr. James L. Poppen´s Care of John F. Kennedy´s Back
• John F. Kennedy´s Mutinous Back in the U.S. Naval Reserve, 1941-45: Part I
• What is the National Health Security Strategy?
• What is the Draft National Disaster Recovery Framework?

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Evergreen Biot Reports you may have missed:

• The flawed 1976 national "Swine flu" influenza immunization program.
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• Mohenjo-Daro, Pakistan´s mysterious ancient civilization.

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Margaret O´Leary at moleary@semp.us.

“It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.” W. Edwards Deming