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Newsweek: Earthquake researcher says people providing aid in Haiti have to cope with their own loss as well

Release Date: February 2, 2010

An article in Newsweek on the differences between the situation in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina and post-earthquake Haiti quotes Andre Filiatrault, professor of civil, structural and environmental engineering, who said, "Katrina was different because [many aid workers] were from outside and had no emotional ties to the community." He also is quoted in an article in the Los Angeles Times about disaster researchers who rush to the scene of a disaster like the Haitian earthquake to study what happened in an effort to alleviate further catastrophes.