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Theme Issue 2019: The Eastern Mediterranean Public Health Network (EMPHNET) (18) Public Health Training, Education and Capacity Building (55) Disaster Medicine and Mass Casualty Management (37)

Published on in Vol 5, No 4 (2019): Oct-Dec

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/14349, first published .
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Rapid Response Teams’ Initiative: Critical Role and Impact on National and Eastern Mediterranean Regional Emergency Management Capacity Building

Rapid Response Teams’ Initiative: Critical Role and Impact on National and Eastern Mediterranean Regional Emergency Management Capacity Building

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Rawan Araj1 Author Orcid Image ;   Ali Odatallah1 Author Orcid Image ;   Jawad Mofleh2 Author Orcid Image ;   Sahar Samy3 Author Orcid Image ;   Nissaf Ben Alaya4 Author Orcid Image ;   Sultan Alqasrawi5 Author Orcid Image
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