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Dr. Irwin Redlener, a columnist for the Daily Beast, is the Founding Director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness as well as a Senior Research Scholar at the Earth Institute at Columbia University, a Professor of Pediatrics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and a Public Health Analyst for NBC/MSNBC. Dr. Redlener is the author of Americans at Risk: Why We’re Not Prepared for Megadisasters and What We Can Do Now as well as The Future of Us: What the Dreams of Children Mean for 21st Century America.
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Ukraine's Child Refugees Need Help. Here’s How To Do It.
NOW IS THE TIMEWe need to think innovatively, and plan quickly, to help the young victims of the war rebuild their lives.

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