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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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20/20 Vision: Comments on Exercise Cygnus (UK’s pandemic exercise in 2016)

Plan B Consulting

Today Charlie discusses how Exercise Cygnus, the UK’s pandemic exercise in 2016, holds up against the ongoing outbreak of COVID-19. The scenario was as follows: The pandemic has H2M2 which is a flu pandemic, rather than a COVID type pandemic. UK the “most prepared country”? Wrong type of flu?

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20/20 Vision: Comments on Exercise Cygnus (UK’s pandemic exercise in 2016)

Plan B Consulting

Today Charlie discusses how Exercise Cygnus, the UK’s pandemic exercise in 2016, holds up against the ongoing outbreak of COVID-19. Exercise Cygnus was a command post exercise carried out by NHS England in October 2016 in order to estimate the impact of a hypothetical H2N2 influenza pandemic on the United Kingdom.

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Book Review: Justice, Equity, and Emergency Management

Recovery Diva

3 …requires full harnessing of the communities transformative and adaptive capacity in order to reduce risks for the future…working to eliminate existing patterns of unequal distribution of risk. #4 4 …is not possible without equal access to resources and programs. The chapter is based on the writing of the late Rev. How do we do them?

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Why prioritizing and investing in resilience matters 

everbridge

In addition to those events, add in the challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic and its clear these situations have the potential to directly affect the well-being of employees and operations, but is enough being done to mitigate or prevent their impact? What does it mean to be resilient?

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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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Comparing Resilience: Business, Operational, IT, and Cyber – Part Five

Zerto

We will also see how business strategy handles the longer-term forces that continuously challenge business resiliency, albeit with less dramatic consequences in the present, but potentially dire ones in the future. Flexibility— Computing and storage capacity expand into the public cloud when demand spikes.