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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. And do something to make our nation and the world less vulnerable.

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Domestic Violence Amid COVID-19: A Hidden Epidemic

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, isolation, confinement, and lack of escape for victims compounds the additional stressors of economic vulnerability, limited access to social support systems, and shifts in daily routines that led to increased violence in past catastrophes such as Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Harvey.