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State of the Nation - a UK Perspective on Covid-19

Emergency Planning

Yet the Strategic Advisory Group of Experts include no experts on managing emergencies, even though this is the most extensive, and perhaps the most profound, emergency that the country has faced in the last 75 years. The scenario for this pandemic (excluding the recovery) was fully formulated over the period 2003-2009. Murphy, S.,

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IRM, ERM, and GRC: Is There a Difference?

Reciprocity

Research firm Gartner, which coined the term “integrated risk management” in 2017, claims that GRC focuses narrowly on regulatory compliance, while IRM has a more expansive, risk-oriented view. Are there differences at all? They’re all critical, Scheitlin says. How are you going to put it all together?

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Using Budget Principles to Prepare for Future Pandemics and Other Disasters

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

We have forward-looking actions across government, such as FEMA’s Strategic Plan. Thus, in 2013 and 2018, and to a lesser extent 2017 and 2019, Congress returned to its old approach, passing reactive supplemental appropriations bills funding “emergency requirements” to respond to these unforeseen disasters.