everbridge

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Events such as the devastating incident in Maui serve as grim reminders of the ongoing challenges that persist in disaster preparedness and response. Despite these challenges, there are ways to ensure more uniformity and reliability around disaster response. Increasingly, this issue appears to be unique to the United States.

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everbridge

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

To fulfill duty of care standards, corporations, educational institutions, hospitals, and government agencies should evaluate and test the health of communication networks and information systems before a severe weather event occurs. Review message construction guidelines to ensure all emergency messages are clear and concise.

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National Center for Disaster Prepardness

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Challenges of the Current Preliminary Damage Assessment Process After a major disaster in the U.S., This manual process requires assessors to physically visit each site, which can be time-consuming, dangerous, labor-intensive, and subject to human error, particularly in areas with severe destruction or hazardous conditions.

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Fusion Risk Management

AUGUST 7, 2023

With this in mind, it’s becoming increasingly important that organizations look at climate change and natural disaster preparedness not just from an ESG (environmental, social, and governance) perspective but also from an operational resiliency one. The post Hurricane Season is in Full Effect − Are You Prepared?

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National Center for Disaster Prepardness

JANUARY 19, 2022

In my role leading the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University’s Climate School, as well as through other positions, I have dedicated my career to fostering the impact of disaster research in the fields of policy and practice. Testimony Submitted January 16, 2022. By: Jeff Schlegelmilch, MPH, MBA.

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National Center for Disaster Prepardness

MARCH 27, 2025

The disaster highlighted the need for disaster preparedness and offered valuable lessons as governments adapt to the new normal of increasingly extreme events. Dr. Pierre Gentine , the Director of LEAP , was in Valencia at the time of this natural disaster, working at the University of Valencia during his sabbatical.

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National Center for Disaster Prepardness

AUGUST 22, 2024

However, the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina made it clear that the field had prioritized terrorist events to the detriment of other disasters. Lessons learned after Katrina led the field to refocus again on an all-hazards and a more whole-community-oriented planning approach. eastern seaboard and Caribbean islands.

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National Center for Disaster Prepardness

MAY 20, 2020

As the United States enters its second month of widespread closure in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, state and local governments across the country continue to rely on stay-at-home orders to stem the spread of the virus. Millions more Americans live in unsafe and unhealthy housing conditions that make home quarantine problematic.

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National Center for Disaster Prepardness

MAY 13, 2020

all of these percentages of positive cases are current as of 5/13/2020). Despite being deemed essential workers, many are not provided with personal protective equipment (PPE), hazard pay , or in many cases union protections. The post Racial Disparities and COVID-19 appeared first on National Center for Disaster Preparedness | NCDP.

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Emergency Planning

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

In 2021 a colleague who studies natural hazards wrote to me that "our institute is all but destroyed and colleagues have lost their homes". The response to these floods revealed a lack of crucial connections in civil protection between the federal government and the states. Why has this not solved the problem?

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