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Displaying 10 of about 10 resultsThe Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS) has developed a new streamlined business continuity program for small businesses that may not have the time or resources to create an extensive plan to recover from business interruptions. IBHS is a leading national expert on preparing for, and repairing, rebuilding, and recovering from catas…
The Zika virus is one of the latest threats the University of Hawaiʻi managed Pacific Disaster Center (PDC) is helping to combat with its global array of technological solutions and services.
The center has been monitoring and mapping outbreaks and providing regular products to the U.S. government as well as international agencies i…
By Irene Koek
Resilience is one of those buzzwords that every so often captures the hearts and minds of development practitioners. The importance of this particular term, though, becomes all too clear as the world faces an increasing number of humanitarian crises, including outbreaks that can turn into pandemics.
Did you know, for instance, that every…
This study discusses dynamics and drivers of the Zika epidemic in Latin America in order to assess longer-term risks and prioritise interventions. The transmissibility of the infection, the generation time and large-scale connectivity of human populations are the three key factors that determine the scale and speed of spread of an emerging infectio…
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation released the results of the 2016 National Health Security Preparedness Index, which shows the United States is relatively well-prepared for managing an emergency, although performance on some measures in specific states can be improved.
Using more than 100 different measures—ranging from flu vaccination rates, number…
13 October 2016, GENEVA –The UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction, Mr. Robert Glasser, today marked International Day for Disaster Reduction by recognising five outstanding examples of successful efforts to reduce disaster mortality.
Today marks the beginning of the “Sendai Seven Campaign: Seven Targets, Seven Years…
Health is a key element of the Sendai Framework. It places strong emphasis on resilient health systems by the integration of disaster risk management into health care provision at all levels, and by the development of the capacity of health workers in understanding disaster risk and applying and implementing disaster risk approaches in health work. The…
This paper examines the role of outbreak information sources through four domains: knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and stigma related to the 2014 Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak. Given the ongoing and unpredictable threat to human health posed by recent emerging infectious diseases (EID), the appearance and exportation of future novel pathogens i…
La Unidad Nacional para la Gestión del Riesgo de Desastres, en colaboración con la Ocina de Naciones Unidas para la Reducción del Riesgo de Desastres- UNISDR, la Ocina de Asistencia para Desastres en el Extranjero de la Agencia de los Estados Unidos para el Desarrollo Internacional (USAID/OFDA) USAID/OFDA, el Consejo Colombiano de Segurid…
In a place like Haiti, overseeing disaster management and relief is no small task. Marie Alta Jean-Baptiste has been doing it for over a decade and her passion for getting everyone involved - especially the most vulnerable - is setting the country on a more resilient course.
Most of us spend our lives trying not to think about disasters. But Madame Mar…