Monica Schoch-Spana
Biographic Data
| ID | 3639886 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Monica Schoch-Spana |
| GIVEN NAMES | Monica |
| FAMILY NAME | Schoch-Spana |
| SIGNATURE | SCHOCH-SPANA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Monica Schoch-Spana and Divya Hosangadi are with the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD. Kimberly Gill is with the Disaster Research Center, University of Delaware, Newark. Cathy Slemp and Robert Burhans are independent consultants. Janet Zeis is with the Chester County Department of Emergency Services, West Chester, PA. Eric Carbone is with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Center for Preparedness and Response,... |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Modeling epidemic recovery
The Copewell Rubric
Measurement is a community endeavor that can enhance the ability to anticipate, withstand, and recover from a disaster, as well as foster learning and adaptation. This project's purpose was to develop a self-assessment toolkit-manifesting a bottom-up, participatory approach-that enables people to envision community resilience as a concrete, desirable, and obtainable goal; organize a cross-sector effort to evaluate and enhance factors that influen…
Top-Down and Bottom-Up Measurement to Enhance Community Resilience to Disasters
Anthropologists in the Securityscape
As the military and intelligence communities re-tool for the 21st century, the long and contentious debate about the role of social scientists in national security environments is dividing the disciplines with renewed passion. Yet, research shows that most scholars have a weak understanding of what today's security institutions actually are and what working in them entails. This book provides an essential new foundation for the debate, with fine-…
Disaster Resilience
The 1918–1920 Influenza Pandemic Escape Community Digital Document Archive (review)
Reviewed by Monica Schoch-Spana Center for Biosecurity of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Baltimore, Maryland The 1918–1920 Influenza Pandemic Escape Community Digital Document Archive, The Center for the History of Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, http://www.med.umich.edu/medschool/chm/influenza/index.htm. "Escape communities" were those rare towns, institutions, and military posts that experienced few (if any) cases …
Safe Food
Book Review| October 01 2006 Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism. Marion Nestle. Monica Schoch-Spana Monica Schoch-Spana Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2006) 80 (4): 470–472. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-80.4.470 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Monica Schoch-Spana; Safe Food: Bacteria…
Post-Katrina, Pre-Pandemic America
Trust
It is widely assumed that informing prospective subjects about the risks and possible benefits of research not only protects their rights as autonomous decisionmakers, but also empowers them to protect their own interests. Yet interviews with patient-subjects conducted under the auspices of the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments suggest this is not always the case. Patient-subjects often trust their physician to guide them through …
Trust
It is widely assumed that informing prospective subjects about the risks and possible benefits of research not only protects their rights as autonomous decisionmakers, but also empowers them to protect their own interests. Yet interviews with patient-subjects conducted under the auspices of the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments suggest this is not always the case. Patient-subjects often trust their physician to guide them through …
Safe Food
Book Review| October 01 2006 Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism. Marion Nestle. Monica Schoch-Spana Monica Schoch-Spana Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2006) 80 (4): 470–472. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-80.4.470 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Monica Schoch-Spana; Safe Food: Bacteria…
Post-Katrina, Pre-Pandemic America
The 1918–1920 Influenza Pandemic Escape Community Digital Document Archive (review)
Reviewed by Monica Schoch-Spana Center for Biosecurity of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Baltimore, Maryland The 1918–1920 Influenza Pandemic Escape Community Digital Document Archive, The Center for the History of Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, http://www.med.umich.edu/medschool/chm/influenza/index.htm. "Escape communities" were those rare towns, institutions, and military posts that experienced few (if any) cases …
Disaster Resilience
Anthropologists in the Securityscape
As the military and intelligence communities re-tool for the 21st century, the long and contentious debate about the role of social scientists in national security environments is dividing the disciplines with renewed passion. Yet, research shows that most scholars have a weak understanding of what today's security institutions actually are and what working in them entails. This book provides an essential new foundation for the debate, with fine-…
The Copewell Rubric
Measurement is a community endeavor that can enhance the ability to anticipate, withstand, and recover from a disaster, as well as foster learning and adaptation. This project's purpose was to develop a self-assessment toolkit-manifesting a bottom-up, participatory approach-that enables people to envision community resilience as a concrete, desirable, and obtainable goal; organize a cross-sector effort to evaluate and enhance factors that influen…
Top-Down and Bottom-Up Measurement to Enhance Community Resilience to Disasters
Modeling epidemic recovery
Disaster Management and Resilience (5 works) · Engineering (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Community resilience (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Disaster Response and Management (3 works) · Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Psychology (3 works)