Clarification

The article “Good Intentions Often Miss Disaster Relief Targets” in the July 1 issue reported on a session held at APA's 2005 annual meeting in Atlanta titled “Global Disasters: Psychiatric Medicine and Public Health Challenges.” The article did not name the organizations that collaborated on the session, which was held at the Carter Center. APA's Council on Global Psychiatry and the World Psychiatric Association's Conflict Management and Resolution Section organized the session. The other groups involved were the World Psychiatric Association's sections on Military and Disaster Psychiatry and Occupational Psychiatry, the World Health Organization, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The session, said Eliot Sorel, M.D., chair of the WPA Conflict Management and Resolution Section, was “a model of cooperation essential not only for scientific meetings but also for the practical development of responses to and interventions in disasters” occurring anywhere in the world.▪