Authorization Emergency Response Pandemic 
Emergency Planning
DECEMBER 14, 2020
What are, and have been, the key challenges in coping with the Covid-19 pandemic? The first challenge is to understand the behaviour of an emerging disease caused by a new variant of a virus. Viral pandemics can have impacts that are as significant in the socio-economic field as they are in epidemiology and viral medicine.
Disaster Zone Podcast
DECEMBER 6, 2022
Public Information Officers (PIO) had their work cut out for them in responding to the COVID pandemic. We explore all the challenges that came with the COVID response to a novel virus where everyone was flying a bit blind at first. Public Information Officers (PIO) had their work cut out for them in responding to the COVID pandemic.
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Disaster Zone Podcast
AUGUST 6, 2024
He has had multiple roles in leadership ranging from ten years in the New Zealand Navy, to positions with Queens Town Lakes District Council and the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (CERA). Like many of us, he Played a regional role inthe Whole of Government emergency response in the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Emergency Planning
MAY 6, 2024
The lessons of the Covid-19 pandemic, alas largely negative, show that a good civilian system designed to protect the public against major hazards and threats can save thousands of lives and billions in losses and wasted expenditure. Non-seasonal influenza retains the potential to cause a pandemic on the level of that of 1918-1920.
Emergency Planning
OCTOBER 21, 2022
Oddly, it was sidelined during the pandemic as the Cabinet Office Minister, Michael Gove, judged it to be 'too extreme'. Interestingly, since the first edition in 2008, pandemics have been regarded as the leading risk in terms of their probability of occurrence and seriousness of consequences. These are rather ambiguous bodies.
Solutions Review
FEBRUARY 4, 2022
OUR TAKE: Authors John Rittinghouse and James F. Book Title: Emergency Management Exercises: From Response to Recovery: Everything You Need to Know to Design a Great Exercise. OUR TAKE: Author Regina Phelps is a widely renowned expert in the fields of crisis management, exercise design, and continuity and pandemic planning.
Emergency Planning
MARCH 7, 2019
Myth 10: After disaster people will not make rational decisions and will therefore inevitably tend to do the wrong thing unless authority guides them. Reality: Emergency response should have made a transition from a military activity to a fully civilian one. Myth 35: We are well organised to face a pandemic or CBRN attack.
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