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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. We were determined to change how disasters were prevented and managed in America.

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Want to know the top three things that scare me?

Disaster Preparedness

Phones are used for extensive tracking in China, including the need to access government resources like healthcare. We don’t see vast amounts of people dying in the streets, hospitals are not overwhelmed, and funeral homes are not over-run. If these things were occurring the impact would have been far worse.

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