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IT Support in a Pandemic

Disaster Zone Podcast

The COVID-19 Pandemic was a learning experience for everyone. In this Disaster Zone Podcast I interview Linda Gerull, Executive Director for the Department of Technology for the City and County of San Francisco. The COVID-19 Pandemic was a learning experience for everyone.

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Sweet Home Alabama.Emergency Management

Disaster Zone Podcast

Technology, the pandemic, and disaster resilience are only a few of the other topics touched on in this interview. Technology, the pandemic, and disaster resilience are only a few of the other topics touched on in this interview.

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Adapting MS Teams for Crisis Information Management

Disaster Zone Podcast

One of the innovations coming out of the response to the COVID Pandemic is the use of Microsoft Teams as a platform for managing a remote response to the event. One of the innovations coming out of the response to the COVID Pandemic is the use of Microsoft Teams as a platform for managing a remote response to the event.

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Emergency Assistance Foundation (EAF) Helping in Disasters

Disaster Zone Podcast

Disasters that have been responded to include devastating hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria in 2017, the global COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, and today’s ongoing conflict in Ukraine.

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Washington State Emergency Management

Disaster Zone Podcast

He serves as Director of the Washington Military Department’s Emergency Management Division (EMD), which is responsible for leading and coordinating mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery activities to minimize the impact of disasters and emergencies on the people, property, environment and economy of Washington State.

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Hazardous Conditions: Mitigation Planning and Pandemics

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the importance of coordinated responses among emergency management and other stakeholders to implement an effective strategy for handling a long and complex disaster. Due to a number of factors , pandemics are more likely to occur in the future.

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The Beginnings of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness (NCDP)

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

In 2003, the National Center for Disaster Preparedness (NCDP), Columbia University, was founded to provide an academically based, interdisciplinary center focused on the capacity to prevent, respond to, and recover from disasters. New York, the United States, and, indeed, the world was totally unprepared.