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PTSD isn’t just reserved for those on the frontline – my experience alongside a surgical team at Camp Bastion showed how it could affect anyone dealing with the fall out of war.
A multibillion-dollar effort is just beginning to build an all-new nationwide wireless broadband network for emergency responders. How will it work, why do we need it and how will it last 25 years?
The UK’s blue light services need to adapt and modernise or they will face their own emergency.
Given the persistent risk of terrorist attacks and large-scale accidents, it’s more critical than ever for EMTs, police, firefighters and others to learn from the past.
A record number of underage drinkers sought urgent medical attention in Western Australia last year, and young women made up the majority.
… and supported by a drone.
After-hours home medical services cost the taxpayer dearly and don’t reduce emergency department visits, according to new research.
The new psychoactive drug Spice is taking its toll on frontline policing.
A new training course designed to help volunteers feel like a key part of the team could help to reduce attrition rates among Australia’s estimated 240,000 volunteer emergency service workers.
‘Denial of service’ cyberattacks are increasingly used to shut down websites. New research reveals that 911 call centers are vulnerable to the threat as well.
Irrespective of whether climate change contributed to the thunderstorm in Melbourne last week, we can be sure Australia’s climate projections herald new risks to health that cannot be ignored.
A comprehensive analysis of Tasmania’s natural disaster risks has identified bushfire as the biggest threat, alongside emerging issues such as disease epidemics and heatwaves.
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, University of Melbourne and CEO Dart Centre for Journalism and Trauma Asia Pacific, Edith Cowan University
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Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Oxford
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology, University of Liverpool
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Professor of Leadership and Management, Edge Hill University
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Honorary Professor of Hazards and Disaster Risk Sciences, University of Sydney
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Professor of Urban Studies and Planning, Queensland University of Technology
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Research Fellow, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
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Project Manager, University of Wollongong
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Associate Professor, Deputy Director Phoenix Australia Centre for Post-traumatic Mental Health, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Organisational Ethnography, Cambridge Judge Business School
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CEO, Natural Hazards Research Australia, Adjunct Fellow, Macquarie University
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Tomas Remenyi is a Friend of The Conversation.
Climate Research Fellow, Climate Futures Programme, University of Tasmania
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Head of the Centre for Water, Environment, Sustainability and Public Health, University of Strathclyde
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PhD candidate, Curtin University
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Assistant Director (International) - Melbourne Centre for Cities, The University of Melbourne
