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Bottom-Up Citizen Engagement for Health Emergency and Disaster Risk Management
This article describes how there is a need to advance bottom-up engagement in health disaster and emergency management programs, policies and research. The article also highlights that all disasters and health emergencies start at the local leve...
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...
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...
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...
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...