(PDF) (DOC) (JPG)April 28, 2008

(Mahwah) – “Coping with Terror: Learning from the Experience of Israel” was the title of the April 28, 2008 talk by Dr. Leonard A. Cole, author and expert on the intersection of public health and terrorism issues. Ramapo College’s Gross Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and Hillel, a student organization, sponsored his presentation.

The author of Terror: How Israel Has Coped and What America Can Learn (Indiana, 2007), Cole described how different segments of Israeli society have coped with terrorism—survivors of attacks, families of victims, emergency responders, doctors and nurses, and the general population. He delved into the impact of terrorist incidents on the survivors and their families and differences between the Israeli and American approaches to mandating preparedness for, and the management of, a disaster. He also discussed exchange programs between Israeli and American emergency response counterparts, including an initiative to establish an International Center for Terror Medicine (ICTM), so that “terror medicine” can also inform U.S. efforts in this area.

Cole is an adjunct professor of Political Science at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey. He is an expert on bioterrorism and terror medicine and author of seven books, most recentlyThe Anthrax Letters: A Medical Detective Story.

E-News Archives