My November International Association of Emergency Mangers (IAEM) Disaster Zone column is all about the value of experience that comes from working in an emergency management position. You cannot get ...

Now more than ever before, our world needs effective leaders who possess the skills – and cool heads – to effectively manage and proactively respond to public emergencies, disasters and catastrophes.

Hurricane Katrina looms large in the history of American emergency management, both for what went wrong as the disaster unfolded and for the policy changes it triggered. As the nation looks back on ...

Native Americans are increasingly responsible for emergency management systems when a natural disaster hits a tribal community. Tribes can issue emergency declarations requests to open up help from ...

Jack L. Rozdilsky receives support for research communication and public scholarship from York University. He also has received research support from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Former ...

SALIX, Iowa (KTIV) - Do you know what to do during a disaster? On Tuesday night, one county’s emergency managers reached out to the community to make sure they’re prepared. Woodbury County Emergency ...

Section 1. Purpose and Policy. The Federal responses to Hurricane Helene and other recent disasters demonstrate the need to drastically improve the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (“FEMA’s) ...

Georgetown University’s School of Continuing Studies (SCS) launched an executive master’s degree program in humanitarian crisis and emergency management in partnership with Georgetown University in ...

DGPC’s institutional mandate to coordinate the DRM system strengthened Haiti’s disaster risk management capacity, as evidenced by DGPC’s strong coordination of the emergency response following the ...

Eric Stern has recently received funding from DHS Science and Technology for an extreme weather informatics project and from NOAA for work on extreme heat events. He has lectured at the National ...