Center Director Matthew Wynia said the official count kept by the public health office is important, but it “leads us to underestimate the total impact of certain types of disasters.”  In September, Wynia and a team of researchers published a national report that Congress commissioned on how to measure a disaster’s death toll.  “You can use that information to target resources to neighborhoods that are being very hard hit or other social groups that may be particularly hard hit. When we can figure out why people die, we can maybe intervene to prevent those deaths.”  Read article>>