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Dueling Emergencies: Flood Evacuation Ridesharing During the COVID-19 Pandemic

This paper examines the complexity behind the decision-making relating to rideshare during an emergency like COVID-19. Sharing resources during disaster events like vehicles, supports the expansion of critical capacity and enables inclusive disa...

ֲý and COVID-19 Resource Library

This webpage shares resources that address the needs of environmental public health staff during the COVID-19 pandemic. It includes resources on: Disinfecting a facility COVID-19 and early childhood K-12 education and COVID-19 Recommended f...

Environmental Justice and Natural Disasters/COVID-19 Virtual Town Hall Meetings

The Federal Interagency Working Group on Environmental Justice hosted three virtual regional town hall meetings to gain a better understanding of how natural disasters and COVID-19 impact minority, low-income, overburdened, and underserved commu...

Excess of COVID-19 Cases and Deaths Due to Fine Particulate Matter Exposure During the 2020 Wildfires in the United States

This article analyzes data on PM2.5, the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths, and other confounders for 92 western U.S. counties affected by 2020 wildfires. It includes estimates of the association between short-term exposure to PM2.5 and the ep...

FDA COVID-19 Pandemic Recovery and Preparedness Plan Initiative: Summary Report

This report describes ongoing and potential prospective actions to strengthen FDA's COVID-19 response and build resilience to respond to future emergencies. As the pandemic has presented new challenges for the entire healthcare community and gov...

Guides to Expanding Mitigation

This guide is a part of a series that highlights partnerships for emergency mitigation. This resource includes: How communities can support hazard mitigation Ways to support FEMA’s goal of building a culture of preparedness Recommended for e...

Building Resilient Coalitions: Health and Medical Response Through COVID-19 Concurrent Events

This article analyzes the critical role that non-profit organizations play in capacity-building among healthcare institutions in a large medical center. An assessment of the conceptual resilience model is used by the organizations as they respon...

Individual Hurricane Evacuation Intentions During the COVID-19 Pandemic

This article discusses how individual hurricane preparedness is often influenced by the additional risk stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic. A major finding was that the perceptions of flood and pandemic risks have opposite effects on preparedne...

Lessons from Concurrent Disasters: COVID-19 and Eight Hurricanes

This literary review investigates the relationship of local government leaders and emergency managers in Louisiana who worked collaboratively to respond to the global pandemic and an “epidemic” of landfalling hurricanes during 2020. The review s...

Maintaining Critical Infrastructure Resilience to Natural Hazards During the COVID-19 Pandemic

This article describes alternative approaches that an energy organization can take to prepare for a concurrent disaster. Maintaining strong infrastructure during a natural disaster during COVID-19 is challenging and has the potential to disrupt ...

Compound Natural and Human Disasters: Managing Drought and COVID-19 to Sustain Global Agriculture and Food Sectors

This article describes how droughts and pandemics interact and identifies appropriate policies to address them individually and together. Disasters, both natural and human made disrupt global food supply chains when they occur at the same time a...

Mitigating the Twin Threats of Climate-Driven Atlantic Hurricanes and COVID-19 Transmission

This article looks at the co-occurrence of the 2020 Atlantic Hurricane Season and the COVID-19 pandemic and how together they create a complex dilemma for protecting populations from the intersecting threats. This resource answers the questions ...

Mutual Aid: A Grassroots Model for Justice and Equity in Emergency Management

This article provides lessons for a more equitable approach to emergency management. Grassroots mutual aid programs regained prominence when supporting equitable approaches to emergency management during many concurrent disasters in 2020. Disast...

Navigating the Wildfire-Pandemic Interface

This article provides preliminary data that suggests the current challenges around collective action to address wildfire risk may be further exacerbated due to COVID-19, and that the pandemic has potentially widened existing disparities in house...

Nonprofit Capacity to Manage Hurricane-Pandemic Threat

This report examines the professional capacity of nonprofit organizations when responding to disasters occurring simultaneously. This report includes:Service delivery strategies for nonprofits during COVID-19Impact of natural disasters on nonpro...

Nonprofit Response to Concurrent and Consecutive Disaster Events in Puerto Rico

This article examines how nonprofit organizations are prominent stakeholders when working in community-level recovery efforts. It explores the role of nonprofits to facilitate dynamic information flows, fill in critical service delivery gaps lef...

Opinion: Compound Risks and Complex Emergencies Require New Approaches to Preparedness

This article calls for a need to redesign institutions to be proactive, agile, and socially just when confronted with compound risks that have become increasingly likely. This resource includes: Risk reduction framework and funding Pandemic l...

Orchestrating Performance of Healthcare Networks Subjected to the Compound Events of Natural Disasters and Pandemic

This article combines wildfire data with varying courses of the spread of COVID-19 to evaluate the effectiveness of different strategies for managing patient demand. It shows that losing access to medical care is a function of the relative occur...

Planning for Concurrent Disasters During the COVID-19 Pandemic

This podcast offers support on how local, state, national, and federal officials can prepare for concurrent disasters. This resource specifically focuses on COVID-19 and natural disasters that occurred during the early stages of the pandemic. Th...

Potential Impact of Earthquakes During the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic

This article analyzes the potential impact that seismic events may have on the infection rate within regions afflicted by both epidemics and earthquakes. It also explores open software packages that can be employed to simulate the impact of futu...

Preparedness in a Pandemic Workshop Exercise Starter Kit

This guide helps state, local, territorial, and tribal organizations conduct exercises on preparedness during a pandemic. The guide provides planning considerations, discussion questions, and how to conduct internal and external conversations du...

Radiation Emergencies

This is a resource list from CDC's NCEH radiation emergency website and provides information on what to do during a radiological or nuclear disaster. Resources are offered in Spanish and English. This page includes: Suggestions on how to protec...

Caring for the Forgotten Children: Rebuilding Puerto Rico After Hurricane Maria, Earthquakes, and COVID-19

This article focuses on mental health resiliency within child and adolescent groups as well as the general community members. Communities have vulnerabilities that are often displayed when being impacted by disasters and it is important to learn...

Reflection of Challenges and Opportunities within the COVID-19 Pandemic to Include Biological Hazards into DRR Planning

This article examines key challenges and opportunities from COVID-19 as highlighted at the Asia-Pacific Partnership for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Forum convened by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) Regional office...

Responding to Chemical Incidents

This course is offered by the Tennessee Emergency Medical Services for Children. This course will support the user to recognize the signs, symptoms and treatment modalities for several chemical agents. This course includes: Pediatric decontamin...

Special Section: COVID-19/Public Health Preparedness and Response

This article is a collection of COVID-19 treatises that identify some of the flaws in the American social and economic, health care, and disaster response systems and how they often contribute to national disaster mitigation challenges. This art...

Studying Social Workers' Roles in Natural Disasters During a Global Pandemic

This article shares practice and research recommendations for a social worker relating to therapeutic interactions, social justice, and public health during disasters. Social workers are viewed as a source of reliable information about safety, r...

Supporting Wildfire Response During a Pandemic in the United States

This article reviews the development and application of a COVID-19 Incident Risk Assessment Tool. The tool includes summary of usage statistics, examples of real use on wildfire incidents, and report feedback from users. The tool was used to fil...

Tangible Tabletops and Dual Reality for Crisis Management

This article reviews a study between tangible and tactile interactions. The study consisted of 32 participants remotely displacing robots and exploring a simulated disaster area. This study includes: Difference between two interaction technique...

The COVID-19 Crisis Worsens With the Occurrence of Climate Extremes and Disasters

This article examines the impacts of climate disasters and COVID-19 in Africa and provides suggestions for countries to strengthen their emergency department by boosting the staff component, provide adequate technical support and develop detaile...

The COVID-19 Pandemic and Wildfire Smoke

This article identifies the potential for dangerous interactions between COVID-19 and smoke pollution This resource includes: Strategies to manage the combination of public health threats Recommended for environmental and public health officia...

The Mental Health Impacts of Successive Disasters

Experiencing a natural disaster at the same time as a global pandemic is associated with negative impacts on mental health. This article studies resiliency at the individual and community levels to understand problematic impacts following a disa...

The United States COVID-19 Pandemic in the Flood Season

This article outlines a tool that assesses the compound risk of COVID-19 at the county level. The article found that the number of flood insurance house claims can proxy the displaced population accurately with more spatiotemporal detail, and th...

The United States' Response to COVID-19

This report focuses on an assessment of the response to COVID-19 on a national level. This case study assesses the U.S. experience a year into the pandemic unfolding and aims to support a smarter, faster response to the pandemic and to be prepar...

Using Best Practices to Sustain Training Programs During COVID-19 and Other Disasters

This collection of resources from a virtual workshop includes best practices of National Institute of ֲý Sciences (NIH) Worker Training Program, awardees, and partnering organizations to sustain training programs during COVID-1...

When Emergencies and Disasters Collide

This article details the interaction between the responses to both the COVID-19 pandemic and the Magna earthquake in Utah. COVID-19 may have limited injuries or the loss of life during the earthquake, and it also enabled an early activation of t...

ֲý Assessment Guide and Form for Disaster Shelters During COVID-19

This CDC guidance and set of checklists is designed for emergency management planning and includes:Identifying the assessing agencyFacility detailsOccupant processingServices the facility providesArea to note immediate needsRecommended for emerg...