The Wilderness Emergency Medical Services Institute

International and Overseas Organizations

While WEMSI mirrors this page as a convenience to our visitors, and with the permission of David Butler of the National Hazards Information Center at the University of Colorado, we highly recommend a visit to their excellent site, which has many more interesting items. The Natural Hazards Information Center is at http://www.colorado.edu/hazards/

Listings are alphabetical. Private, for-profit organizations have not been not included.

WEMSI also recommends the on-line Natural Hazards Data Resources Directory (1990) published jointly by the Natural Hazards Center and the National Geophysical Data Center.

WEMSI appreciates the kindness of the staff of the Natural Hazards Information Center in allowing us to mirror their material.

ASIAN DISASTER PREPAREDNESS CENTER

Asian Institute of Technology, P.O. Box 4 Klongluang, Pathumthani 12120, Thailand. Erika Lund and Kamal Kishore, Information Officers; tel: (66-2) 524-5378; fax: (66-2) 524-5360; e-mail: adpc@cs.ait.ac.th; WWW: http://www.adpc.ait.ac.th/Default.html.

AUSTRALIAN EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE, EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AUSTRALIA

Mt. Macedon, Victoria 3441, Australia. Chris Hunter, Director; Rob Fleming, Information and Research Centre Manager; tel: 61-3-54 215 100; fax: 61-3-54 215 273; e-mail: rfleming@ema.gov.au, or chunter@ema.gov.au.

CARIBBEAN DISASTER EMERGENCY RESPONSE AGENCY

The Garrison, St. Michael, Barbados, West Indies. Jeremy Collymore, Regional Coordinator; (809) 436-9650/651/652; fax: (809) 437-7649; e-mail: cdera@caribsurf.com.

CENTER FOR DISASTER MANAGEMENT

Yeshwantrao Chavan Academy of Development Administration (YASHADA), Raj Bhavan Complex, Baner Road, Pune, India 411007. N. Vinod Chandra Menon; tel: +91-212-350869; fax: +91-212-359135; e-mail: cendis@giaspn01.vsnl.net.in.

CENTER FOR RESEARCH ON EPIDEMIOLOGY OF DISASTERS

Unit of Epidemiology EPID 30-34, School of Public Health, Catholic University of Louvain, 30, Clos Chappelle-aux-Champs, B-1200 Brussels, Belgium. Debarati Guha-Sapir; tel: (32-2) 764.33.26; fax: (32-2) 764.34.41; e-mail: misson@epid.ucl.ac.be

CENTRE FOR RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia. Dingle Smith; tel: 61 06 249 2100; fax: 61 06 249 0757; e-mail: dingle@cres.anu.edu.au; WWW: http://cres.anu.edu.au.

CENTRE FOR DISASTER MANAGEMENT

University of New England, P.O. Box U199, Armidale, New South Wales 2351, Australia; tel: (067) 71 1097; fax: (067) 72 5230

CENTRO DE COORDINACION PARA LA PREVENCION DE DESASTRES NATURALES EN CENTRO AMERICA

Calle Arzobispo Makarios, Edificio, SEVENAR PB2, El Dorado, Panama. Luis Rolando Duran; tel: (507) 236-1680; fax: (507) 236-1341; e-mail: cepreden@ns.sinfo.net.

CENTRO NACIONAL DE PREVENCION DE DESASTRES

Av. Delfin Madrigal, No. 665, Col. Pedregal de Santo Domingo, Delgacion Coyoacan, C.P. 04360, Mexico D.F. Lic. Luis Enrique Gutierrez Alcaraz; tel: (52-5) 606-8111/2966/5079; fax: (52-5) 606-1608.

CRANFIELD DISASTER PREPAREDNESS CENTRE

Cranfield University, RMCS, Shrivenham, Swindon, Wiltshire SN6 8LA, U.K. Ken Westgate, Director; tel: 44 1793 785287; fax: 44 1793 782179; e-mail: disprep@rmcs.cranfield.ac.uk.

DISASTER MITIGATION INSTITUTE

Ashish, 25, Vasundhara Colony, Gulbai Tekra, Ahmedabad - 380 006, India. Mihir R. Bhatt, Director; tel: 91-79-6568421; fax: 91-79-6420056.

DISASTER PREPAREDNESS RESOURCE CENTER

Centre for Human Settlements, University of British Columbia, 2206 East Mall, 4th Floor, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, V6T 1Z3. June Kawaguchi, Information Specialist; (604) 822-5518; fax: (604) 822-6164; e-mail: dprc@unixg.ubc.ca. Wayne Greene, Director; e-mail: wgreene@unixg.ubc.ca.

DISASTER PREVENTION AND LIMITATION UNIT

University of Bradford, 13 Pemberton Drive, Bradford, West Yorkshire BD7 1RA, U.K. A.Z. Keller, Director; tel: 0274 385210; fax: 0274 385211; telex: UNIBRFD G.

DISASTER PREVENTION RESEARCH INSTITUTE

Kyoto University, Uji, Kyoto 611, Japan. Kyoji Sassa, Secretary General for Landslide News; tel: (81)774-330021; fax: (81)774-325597/774-324115; e-mail: fukuoka@scl.kyoto-u.ac.jp.

EAST CARIBBEAN DISASTER PROJECT

P.O. Box BM 798, Gablewoods Mall, Castries, St. Lucia, West Indies. Project Coordinator; tel: (809) 453 1406; fax: (809) 453 1094.

EMERGENCIES RESEARCH CENTER

9 Saripolou Street, Athens 10682, Greece. N. Petropoulos; tel/fax: 00 301 823 7342.

EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS CANADA

122 Bank Street, 2nd Floor, Jackson Building, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0W6.
Chris Tucker, Director, Evaluation and Analysis; (613) 991-7071; fax: (613) 996-0995; e-mail: deval1@fox.nstn.ca; Government Emergency Operations and Coordination Center; (613) 991-7000; Andre Lamalice, Director of Communications; (613) 991-7034; Sharleen Bannon, Senior Communications Officer; (613) 991-7038.

EUROPEAN COMMISSION, EUROPEAN COMMUNITY HUMANITARIAN OFFICE (ECHO)

Rue de la Loi 200, B-1049 Brussels, Belgium. Jean-Claude Heyraud; tel: (32-2) 29-69-471; fax: (32-2) 29-91-173; telex: COMEU B 21877; e-mail: Jean-Claude.Heyraud@echo.cec.be.

EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR DISASTER MEDICINE

Ministry of Public Health, State Hospital, 47031 Republic of San Marino. Giovanni Galassi, General Secretary; Anna Maria Bernardi, Director CEMEC Secretariat/Permanent Correspondant CEMEC; tel: +378 994535, or +378 994345; fax: +378 903706; e-mail: cemec@omniway.sm; WWW: http://www.omniway.sm/cemec.

FLOOD HAZARD RESEARCH CENTRE

Middlesex University, Queensway, Enfield, Middlesex EN3 4SF, U.K. Dr. John Handmer; tel: 0181-362-5359; fax: 0181-362-5403; e-mail: fhrc1@mdx.ac.uk; WWW: http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/gem/fhrc.htm.

GLOBAL VOLCANISM PROGRAM

National Museum of Natural History, MRC 129, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560. Jim Luhr; (202) 357-4809; fax: (202) 357-2476; e-mail: gvp@volcano.si.edu; WWW: http://www.volcano.si.edu/gvp/.

INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR DISASTER-MITIGATION ENGINEERING

Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo, 7-22-1, Roppingi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106, Japan. S. Herath, Associate Professor; tel: 81-3-3402-6231, ext. 2660-63; fax: 81-3-3402-4165; e-mail: herath@incede.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp; or network@incede.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp; WWW: http://incede.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/Incede.html

INTERNATIONAL CIVIL DEFENCE ORGANIZATION

10-12, chemin de Surville - 1213 Petit-Lancy, Geneva, Switzerland. Sadok Znaidi, Secretary General; tel: (22) 793 44 33; fax: (22) 793 44 28; telex: 423 786 CH.

INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE RED CROSS

19, avenue de la Paix, 1202 Geneva, Switzerland. Karen Saddler, Head, Public Information Division; tel: (41-22) 730 60 01; fax: (41-22) 733 20 57; e-mail: com_dip.gva@gwn.icrc.org; WWW: http://www.icrc.org.

INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF RED CROSS AND RED CRESCENT SOCIETIES

Information Resource Centre, P.O. Box 372, Geneva 19, Switzerland. Peter Walker, Director, Disaster and Refugee Policy; tel: (41-22) 730 42 22; fax: (41-22) 733 03 95; e-mail: walker@ifrc.org; WWW: http://www.ifrc.org.

INTERNATIONAL SEISMOLOGICAL CENTRE

Pipers Lane, Thatcham, Newbury, Berkshire RG19 4NS, U.K. tel: 44-1635-861022; fax: 44-1635-872351; e-mail: seismo@isc.ac.uk.

INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION AND MITIGATION OF NATURAL HAZARDS

310, allee des Ursulines, Rimouski, Quebec, Canada G5L 3A1. M.I. El-Sabh; tel: (418) 724-1707; fax: (418) 724-1842; e-mail: mohammed_el_sabh@uqar.uquebec.ca;
or,
GPO Box 2100 Adelaide, National Tidal Facility, The Flinders University of South Australia, Australia; tel: (618) 201-7524; fax: (618) 201-7523; e-mail: motid@pippin.cc.flinders.edu.an.

INTERNATIONAL TSUNAMI INFORMATION CENTER

737 Bishop Street, Suite 2200, Honolulu, HI 96813-3213. Charles S. McCreery, Director; (808) 532-6422; fax: (808) 532-5576; e-mail: itic@itic.noaa.gov.

JOINT ASSISTANCE CENTRE TRUST

G.17/3, Qutab Enclave I, Gurgaon 122002, Haryana, India. Narendra Kumar Jain; tel: 0091-124-352141, or 0091-124-353833; fax: 0091-124-351308; e-mail: nkjain@jac.unv.ernet.in.

KATASTROPHENFORSCHUNGSSTELLE (DISASTER RESEARCH UNIT)

Christian-Albrechts-Universitaet Kiel, Olshausenstrasse 40, D-24098 Kiel, Germany. Wolf R. Dombrowsky; tel: 0049 431 880 3465; fax: 0049 431 880 3467; e-mail: wdombro@soziologie.uni-kiel.de; WWW: http://www.soziologie.uni-kiel.de/~gopher.

LOCAL AUTHORITIES CONFRONTING DIASTERS & EMERGENCIES (LACDE)

The Office of the Secretary General, Union of Local Authorities in Israel, 3 Heftman St., Tel Aviv 61200, Israel P.O.B. 20040; Avi Rabinovitch; tel: 972-3-6955024/6919241; fax: 972-3-6967447; e-mail: ulais@netvision.net.il.

MAJOR INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENTS COUNCIL OF CANADA

265 Carling Avenue, Suite 600, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1S 2E1. Michael Salib, Executive Director; (613) 232-4435; fax: (613) 232-4915; e-mail: miacc@globalx.net; WWW: http://hoshi.cic.sfu.ca/miacc/index.html.

MAPFRERE, COMPANIA DE REASEGUROS

P. Recoletos 29, 28004 Madrid, Spain. Teresa Piserra de Castro; tel: 34-1-5811100, or 34-1-5811180 (direct); fax: 34-1-5816400; e-mail: 101566.660@compuserve.com.

MASS EMERGENCIES PROJECT

School of Social Work, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan 52900, Israel. Hayim Granot, Director; fax: (927)3-5347228; e-mail: granot@ashur.cc.biu.ac.il; WWW: http://www.biu.ac.il:80/SOC/sw/emerge.html.

NATIONAL CENTRE FOR DISASTER MANAGEMENT

c/o Indian Institute of Public Administration, Indraprastha Estate, Ring Road, New Delhi 11002, India; fax: (+91-11) 331-9954.

NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR EARTH SCIENCE AND DISASTER PREVENTION

3-1, Tennodai, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki-ken, 305, Japan. Tsuneo Katayama; tel: (81-298) 51-1611; fax: (81-298) 51-1622, (81-298) 51-3246; e-mail: plansec@mhintos.ess.bosai.go.jp.

NATURAL HAZARDS RESEARCH CENTRE

Macquarie University, School of Earth Sciences, New South Wales 2109, Australia. Russell Blong, Director; tel: 61-(0)2-9850 9683; fax: 61-(0)2-9850-9394; e-mail: rblong@laurel.ocs.mq.edu.au; WWW: http://www.es.mq.edu.au/NHRC/.

NETWORK FOR SOCIAL STUDIES ON DISASTER PREVENTION IN LATIN AMERICA (LA RED)

A.P. 18-0620, Lima 18, Peru. Andrew Maskrey, International Communications Advisor; tel: (511) 446-7324, 444-7055, 447-5127; fax: (511) 446-6621; e-mail: andrew@itdg.org.pe; WWW: http://osso.univalle.edu.co/tmp/lared/lared.htm.

ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES

Unit of Sustainable Development and Environment, Natural Hazards Project, 1889 F Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20006. Stephen Bender, Project Chief; (202) 458-6295; fax: (202) 458-3560; e-mail: bender_stephen@oas.org.

OXFORD CENTRE FOR DISASTER STUDIES

P.O. Box 137, Oxford OX4 1UE, U.K. Ian Davis, Managing Director; tel: 44 (0) 1865 202772; fax: 44 (0) 1865 202848; e-mail: 100612.1153@compuserve.com.

PANAFRICAN EMERGENCY TRAINING CENTRE OF THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION, DIVISION OF EMERGENCY AND HUMANITARIAN ACTION (WHO-EHA-PTC)

U.N.ECA Building, P.O Box 60035, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Dr. Alessandro Loretti; tel: 00251 1 517600; fax: 00251 1 513264; e-mail: who.ptc@padis.gn.apc.org; telex: 21584; cable: UNSANTE ADDIS ABABA.

PAN AMERICAN HEALTH ORGANIZATION, REGIONAL OFFICE OF THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION

Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Relief Coordination Program, 525 23rd Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20037. Claude de Ville de Goyet, Chief; (202) 974-3520; fax: (202) 775-4578; information on training materials: (202) 974-3527; e-mail: disaster@paho.org; WWW: http://www.paho.org/english/disaster.htm.

DISASTER DOCUMENTATION CENTER
Please see Regional Disaster Information Center (CRID)

PARTNERS OF THE AMERICAS, EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS PROGRAM

1424 K Street, N.W., Suite 700, Washington, DC 20005. James H. Feaster, Director; (202) 628-3300; fax: (202) 628-3306; e-mail: jf@partners.poa.com.

REGIONAL CENTER FOR SEISMOLOGY FOR SOUTH AMERICA - CERESIS

Apartado 14-0363, Lima, Peru. Alberto Giesecke, Director; tel/fax: (51 14) 336 750; e-mail: giescere@unired.net.pe; WWW: http://www.dgf.uchile.cl/ceresis.html.

REGIONAL DISASTER INFORMATION CENTER (CRID)

P.O. Box 3745-1000, San Jose, Costa Rica; tel: (506) 296 3952; fax: (506) 231 5973; e-mail: crid@netsalud.sa.cr; WWW: http://ns.netsalud.sa.cr/crid.

RELIEF AND DISASTERS POLICY PROGRAMME

Overseas Development Institute, Regents College, Regents Park, Inner Circle, London NW1 4NS, U.K. John Borton; tel: 071-487-7413; fax: 071-487-7590.

SOUTHERN AFRICAN RESEARCH AND DOCUMENTATION CENTRE

SARDC, P.O. Box 5690, Harare, Zimbabwe. Disaster Management Information Project (DMIP) Coordinator; tel: (263 4) 737 301; fax: (263 4) 738 693; e-mail: SARDC@Mango.zw.

UNITED NATIONS

CENTRE FOR REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT, Nagono 1-47-1, Nakamura-ku, Nagoya 450, Japan. Kaji Hideki, Director; tel: (052) 561-9377; fax: (052) 561-9375; e-mail: director@uncrd.or.jp; WWW: http://www.uncrd.or.jp/.

DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS (DHA)/OFFICE OF THE DISASTER RELIEF CO-ORDINATOR, United Nations, Room 3600-A, New York, NY 10017. Q.S. Fareed, Director; (212) 963-5088; fax: (212) 963-1312. United Nations, Palais des Nations, CH-1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland. Martin Griffith, Director; tel: (41-22) 917 2160.
E-mail for both offices: dhagva@un.org. WWW: http://www.reliefweb.int/.

ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN (ECLAC), Programme Planning and Operations Division, Castilla 179D, Santiago, Chile. Romulo Caballeros; tel: (562) 228-5184; fax: (562) 208-1801; e-mail: rcaballe@eclac.cl; WWW: http://www.eclac.cl.

EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC, AND CULTURAL ORGANIZATION (UNESCO), Bureau for Coordination of Environmental Programmes, 1, rue Miollis, 75732 Paris Cedex 15, France. Badaoui Rouhban; tel: (33.1) 45.68.41.20; fax: (33.1) 45.68.58.30; e-mail: b.rouhban@unesco.org.

HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES (UNHCR), Case Postale 2500, CH - 1211 Geneva 2, Switzerland. Sadako Ogata, Centre for Documentation and Research; tel: (41-22) 739 81 11; fax: (41-22) 739 73 77; e-mail: webmaster@unhcr.ch; WWW: http://www.unhcr.ch.

INTERNATIONAL DECADE FOR NATURAL DISASTER REDUCTION (IDNDR) SECRETARIAT, United Nations, Palais des Nations, CH-1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland. Phillipe Boulle, Director; tel: (41-22) 798 68 94; fax: (41-22) 733 86 95; e-mail: idndr@dha.unicc.org.

IDNDR REGIONAL OFFICE FOR LATIN AMERICA AND CARIBBEAN
c/o PAHO, P.O. Box 3745-1000, San Jose, Costa Rica. Helena Molin Valdes; tel: (506) 257-3141; fax: (506) 257-2139; e-mail: hmolin@undpcos.nu.or.cr.

JOINT UNEP/DHA ENVIRONMENT UNIT, Relief Coordination Branch, UN-Department of Humanitarian Affairs, Palais des Nations, 1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland; Mr. Vladimir Sakharov; tel: (4122) 917 11 42 / 11 72; fax: (4122) 197 00 23; telex: 414242 DHA CH; e-mail: dhagva@dha.unicc.org.

WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME, Food Aid Information Group, Information System Service, Via Cristoforo Colombo 426, I-00145 Rome, Italy. George-Andre Simon, Chief; tel: (396) 52282796; fax: (396) 52282451; e-mail: simong@unicc.bitnet; or simong@wfp.org.

WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION (WHO) (see also, Pan American Health Organization), Division of Emergency and Humanitarian Action, 20, Avenue Appia, CH-1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland. F. Bassani, Director; S. Ben Yahmed, Coordinator, Emergency Preparedness and Response; tel: +41 22 791-2752, or +41 22 791-2727; fax: +41 22 791-4844; e-mail: bassanif@who.ch; WWW: http://www.who.ch/programmes/eha/eha_home.htm.

WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION (WMO), P.O. Box 2300, CH-1211 Geneva 2, Switzerland. Haleh Kootval; tel: (41-22) 730 81 11; fax: (41-22) 734 23 26; telex: 41 41 99 OMM CH; e-mail: ipa@www.wmo.ch; WWW: http://www.wmo.ch.

URBAN HAZARD PROJECT/HAZARD AND RISK MANAGEMENT STUDIES

c/o Department of Geography, London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, U.K. Tom Horlick-Jones, Research Manager; tel: +44 171 955 7577; fax: +44 171 955 7721.

WORLD ASSOCIATION FOR DISASTER AND EMERGENCY MEDICINE

Safar Center for Resuscitation Research, University of Pittsburgh, 3434 Fifth Avenue, Suite 243, Pittsburgh, PA 15260. E. Pretto; (412) 383-1904; fax: (412) 624-0943; or, La Panetiere, 1279 Bogis-Bossey, Switzerland. S.W.A. Gunn, President; fax: +41 22 776 64 17; e-mail: wadem@smtp.anes.upmc.edu.

WORLD BANK

Environment Department, 1818 H Street, N.W., Room S5-129, Washington, DC 20433. Mohan Munasinghe; (202) 473-6359; e-mail: pmunasinghe@worldbank.org.

WORLD SEISMIC SAFETY INITIATIVE (WSSI) INTERIM ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE

Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo, 7-22-1, Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106, Japan. T. Katayama, Vice Chair and Treasurer; tel: 81 3 402 6231; fax: 81 3 402 4165;
or
Department of Civil Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-4020. Haresh C. Shah, WSSI Chairperson; (415) 723-3921; fax: (415) 725-8662.

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