The invisibles: the role of volunteer emergency service members in human health emergency response

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https://doi.org/10.31646/gbio.11

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state emergency services, bioterrorism, pandemic, epidemic

Abstract

Volunteers are an integral component of any medium to large scale multi-agency response and, like the comic book “The Invisibles”, have emergency management “superpowers” that could be utilised by the health sector to strengthen Australia’s response to human health threats such as epidemics, pandemics and bioterrorism.

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2019-02-14

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Crane, M. (2019). The invisibles: the role of volunteer emergency service members in human health emergency response. Global Biosecurity, 1(1). https://doi.org/10.31646/gbio.11

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Vol. 1 (2019)

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Rapid Reports and Perspectives From the Field

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Received 2018-11-28
Accepted 2018-12-04
Published 2019-02-14