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Disaster informatics or crisis informatics is the study of the use of information and technology in the preparation, mitigation, response and recovery phases of disasters and other emergencies. Disaster informatics or emergency involves increased use of technology to depict how people can react to emergencies and other disasters that require fast improvements on recovery and preparedness. It began to emerge as a field after the successful use of a variety of technologies in disasters including the Asian tsunami, September 11th and Hurricane Katrina. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Disaster informaticsA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: The disaster of misinformation: a review of research in social mediaInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Handbook of informatics for nurses and health care professionalsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Crowdsourcing geographic information for disaster response: a research frontierCited 715 times
- Go sideways: Emergency managementA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Disaster responseA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Crowdsourcing geographic information for disaster response: a research frontier
A Weibo-based approach to disaster informatics: incidents monitor in post-disaster situation via Weibo text negative sentiment analysis
The Informatics Response in Disaster, Terrorism, and War
Wind, Water, and Wi-Fi: New Trends in Community Informatics and Disaster Management
Disaster informatics: An overview
Towards Fairness-Aware Disaster Informatics: an Interdisciplinary Perspective
Emergency Informatics: Using Computing to Improve Disaster Management
Health Informatics for Pediatric Disaster Preparedness Planning
🆕 Influential since 2022
The disaster of misinformation: a review of research in social media
What did you do to avoid the climate disaster? A call to arms for health informatics
CrisisSense-LLM: instruction fine-tuned large language model for multi-label social media text classification in disaster informatics
A systematic review of social Media-Enabled flood disaster Informatics: Method, technology and application
ASSESSMENT OF DISASTER AND CBRN INFORMATICS LEVELS AND ATTITUDES OF FIRST AND EMERGENCY AID PROGRAM SENIOR STUDENTS
📚 Books worth reading
Handbook of informatics for nurses and health care professionalsToni Hebda, Toni Lee Hebda · 1998- 📕Implementing information security in healthcareTerrell W. Herzig, Tom Walsh · 2013
- 📕Oxford American handbook of disaster medicineRobert A. Partridge · 2012
Medicine meets virtual reality 13James D. Westwood · 2005
Internet resources for nursesJoyce J. Fitzpatrick · 2003
101 careers in public healthBeth Seltzer · 2010
Practical imaging informaticsBarton F. Branstetter · 2009- 📕Bangladesh disaster-related statistics 2015Impact of Climate Change on Human Life Programme (Bangladesh) · 2016
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