Unit Congratulates Dr. Cheng-Min Huang on New Research into Web 2.0

The Johns Hopkins International Injury Research Unit congratulates Dr. Cheng-Min Huang, a post-doctoral fellow with the Unit, on the publication of his recent paper, “Web 2.0 and Internet Social Networking: A New tool for Disaster Management? - Lessons from Taiwan.”

Emerging web technologies are providing a new way for public health workers around the globe to share information and disseminate knowledge. By focusing specifically on a typhoon disaster in Taiwan, Dr. Huang investigates the use of social networking and mobile technologies for emergency response. In Taiwan, these tools were found to be helpful in disseminating information to the first responders quickly and efficiently.

For more information about Dr. Huang’s research, please download the full paper here.