Emergency management is one of the most consequential functions in state government, yet in most states it is not positioned ...

Facilities Management and Public Works play a critical role as disaster site first responders, but it’s a role that’s not fully recognized. If we compare the definitions of Facility Management and ...

Communities and neighbors: Preparedness behaviors (insurance uptake, defensible space, go-bags) and spontaneous collective efficacy. A shift from “get a kit, have a plan” to a mentality on ...

This chapter presents a discussion and decision-support tool to facilitate the development of indicators and triggers that help guide emergency management decision making during a disaster. This tool ...

Are you prepared to respond in the event of an emergency? Whatever form a situation takes—from natural disaster to infectious outbreak—it's most important that all students, faculty and staff are ...

Senior leaders from the V.I. Department of Health and the V.I. Territorial Emergency Management Agency met Thursday with ...

After three years, and almost 7 million deaths worldwide, the World Health Organization last week ended its public health emergency declaration. The United States’ own COVID-19 public health emergency ...

Suggested Citation: "5 Activating a Public Health Emergency Operations Center." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2020. Evidence-Based Practice for Public Health Emergency ...

Doug Wintemute is a staff writer for Forbes Advisor. After completing his master’s in English at York University, he began his writing career in the higher education space. Over the past decade, Doug ...