An insightful new report on the 2010 Haiti earthquake offers a scathing critique of an international community which “has much to learn from the response in Haiti where it has shown an ability to repeat its errors and shortcomings from past disasters.”

Two years after the event, the PAHO Report: Health response to the earthquake in Haiti - Lessons to be learned for the next massive sudden-onset disaster provides a valuable analysis which should serve as a guide for risk reduction and response in other major metropolitan areas in dangerous seismic zones.