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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.

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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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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. The Commonwealth Fund: Healthcare Policies during COVID-19. of the positive cases with race specified, but just 13.4%

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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.

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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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Want to know the top three things that scare me?

Disaster Preparedness

A Pandemic (sorry but this one COVID-19 Isn’t it – I’ll explain why). Yes, a pandemic scares me. Has your company made any changes or implemented any pandemic planning based on the Coronavirus? Phones are used for extensive tracking in China, including the need to access government resources like healthcare.

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