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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. Amidst all of this, we are overly dependent on a shadow budget for disaster response and relief that no one is planning.

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Prepare Your Organization for a Hurricane

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A unified critical event management platform can automate emergency notifications and communications, while centralizing all event activity. Optimize communication between local and regional governments, first responders, and all staff to avoid unsuccessful emergency notifications. Emergency Management During a Hurricane.

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Racial Disparities and COVID-19

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

As the world scrambles each week to grapple with the seemingly insurmountable number of positive cases and deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic, public policy is failing some of America’s most vulnerable communities. all of these percentages of positive cases are current as of 5/13/2020). of the population overall, a ratio of 2.13.

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Housing Protections are an Essential Part of COVID-19 Response and Recovery

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

As the United States enters its second month of widespread closure in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, state and local governments across the country continue to rely on stay-at-home orders to stem the spread of the virus. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the US was already experiencing a housing crisis.