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Hazardous Conditions: Mitigation Planning and Pandemics

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the importance of coordinated responses among emergency management and other stakeholders to implement an effective strategy for handling a long and complex disaster. Due to a number of factors , pandemics are more likely to occur in the future.

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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. And that is just the federal programs.

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Prepare Your Organization for a Hurricane

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Hurricane Preparedness for Healthcare Facilities. But hospital crisis managers must also account for the unique care-dependent nature of hospital operations by taking these four disaster preparedness steps: Adjust staffing levels, supplies, and emergency medicine stores to accommodate patient-surge capacity.

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Reflections on the 20th Anniversary of 9/11: Where we have been and where we are headed in disaster management

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

It is also a time for us, particularly in the disaster preparedness community, to reflect on what has changed since 9/11 and what has not. The state of preparedness in the United States is evolving.

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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. The principle of least privilege is a substantial foundation all companies can establish when it comes to mitigating data security risks.