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NCDP 20th Anniversary Reflections and Impacts

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 international disaster preparedness, response, and long-term recovery.

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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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The 9 Best Books for Disaster Recovery Managers in 2022

Solutions Review

Description: “This new edition of a bestseller book addresses the complexities of disaster preparedness and business continuity. OUR TAKE: Author Regina Phelps is a widely renowned expert in the fields of crisis management, exercise design, and continuity and pandemic planning.

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RIMS Risk Forum India 2021: Building Resilience As COVID, Cyberrisk Top Business Risks

Risk Management Monitor

In the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, risk professionals in India reported acute short- and long-term concerns about the interconnected risks of COVID-19 cases, global economic recession, and surging cyberrisks amid shifts in work arrangements. They have crisis management plans in place, but they also dig deeper, look farther ahead.

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Executive Action Alone Won’t Save Us from Climate Change

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

But he may still do so in the future, and some of his advisors have indicated that he will do so , although it is unclear if this is still in play with the recent passage of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. Alternatively, Biden could use the Stafford Act in much the same way Trump did for the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Navigating the Supply Chain Crisis

Risk Management Monitor

While these issues may have been the fuel, it is certainly the COVID-19 pandemic that was the spark for the current challenges facing the supply chain, as the pandemic affected the global supply chain in many ways.

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33 Data Privacy Week Comments from Industry Experts in 2023

Solutions Review

The pandemic accelerated the digitalization of customer interactions by several years, and there’s no turning back: we now live in an era of digital. With higher levels of digitalization, the volume of data has greatly expanded– which, in turn, has attracted new types of cybercrimes and attacks.