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Foresight

Emergency Planning

Moreover, the Coronavirus pandemic has been widely used as a pretext for curtailing human rights. Moreover, at the world scale there has been a gradual and sustained retreat from democracy as well as a retreat from the principle of right to protection (R2P). References Fukuyama, F. The End of History and the Last Man.

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Using Budget Principles to Prepare for Future Pandemics and Other Disasters

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

Testimony to the House of Representatives Committee on Rules’ Subcommittee on Legislative and Budget Process for the Hearing: Using Budget Principles to Prepare for Future Pandemics and Other Disasters. Testimony Submitted January 16, 2022. By: Jeff Schlegelmilch, MPH, MBA.

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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Emergency Planning

The study of disasters is a 'lateral discipline' that, to varying degrees embraces at least 42 other disciplines and professions (Alexander 2013). Pandemics are included because many of the effects of a pandemic are likely to be socio-economic in nature. By convention, conflict, warfare and disease epidemics are excluded.

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Driving Scientific Discovery with Big Data

Pure Storage

Driving Scientific Discovery with Big Data by Pure Storage Blog Medical research dominated headlines during the COVID-19 pandemic. Created in 2013, the department is a leading light in exploring how healthcare is delivered in the UK and around the world. That’s just one example of the critical health research NDPH conducts.

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More on the Covid-19 Academic Gold Rush

Emergency Planning

In this context, I salute the thoughtful work of Christopher Gomez, Dierdre Hart and JC Gaillard (Gomez and Hart 2013, Gaillard and Gomez 2015) on the phenomenon of the "disaster gold rush". Nevertheless, I cannot ignore the breakneck speed with which papers are propelled into [digital] print nowadays. References Baker, Simon, 2020.

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How ISC East Keynote Speaker Ted Metellus Secures the New York City Marathon

Security Industry Association

A year after canceling the 2020 race because of the coronavirus pandemic, New York Road Runners (NYRR), the nonprofit organization that puts on the TCS New York City Marathon, will return to commemorate the race’s 50th running. He lives in Manhattan and has run 33 half marathons, as well as the New York City Marathon in 2008 and 2013.

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People of Pure: Meet Barkz

Pure Storage

Since December of 2013, I’ve worked with Turning Wheels for Kids. Before the pandemic, Pure was in its seventh year of participating in the Big Bike Build. Outside of Pure, you’ve got another passion for building that has nothing to do with code. . I absolutely love it, and everyone who’s joined loves it too.