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The Beginnings of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness (NCDP)

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. New York, the United States, and, indeed, the world was totally unprepared.

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Using Budget Principles to Prepare for Future Pandemics and Other Disasters

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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. For all other bills (i.e.

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Feeling helpless at home? Try giving

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

This piece was originally published on April 7, 2020 in The Hill. This pandemic, so pervasive it seems dreamed up in Hollywood, can lead to a feeling of helplessness as we sit at home doing our best to practice social distancing. Such centers are often forgotten among the basic needs that communities require after a disaster.

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Racial Disparities and COVID-19

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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 post Racial Disparities and COVID-19 appeared first on National Center for Disaster Preparedness | NCDP.

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Executive Action Alone Won’t Save Us from Climate Change

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Alternatively, Biden could use the Stafford Act in much the same way Trump did for the COVID-19 pandemic. He is also the author of Rethinking Readiness: A Brief Guide to 21st Century Megadisasters , published by Columbia University Press. Not to mention the hundreds of executive orders generally doled out per president.