As many know from experience, disasters can happen to anyone, anywhere. Natural or human-caused disasters can be highly ...

The Board of Supervisors is continuing to focus on furthering eight priority objectives for fiscal year 2025/2026, reflecting the community’s top needs. The priorities remain the same as last year and ...

Planning is an important avenue to community emergency preparedness. The practice of emergency response planning is best thought of as a process - a continuing sequence of analyses, plan development, ...

Since 9/11, there have been billions of federal grant dollars awarded to state and local governments and an ongoing quest to measure preparedness. Congress, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), ...

The Institute of Allied Health Sciences, Srinivas University, organized an Student Development Programme under the theme ...

Small business owners are strongly encouraged to make contingency plans for responding to and recovering from disasters that may befall them. The motivation for doing so may be more sharply present in ...

Historically, emergency preparedness programs in long term care (“LTC”) facilities have been less prioritized with facilities understandably focusing on patient care and operations. But with the ...

If there is anything that the last several years have taught long-term care providers about managing emergencies and disasters, it’s that strong leadership is a critical operational component to help ...

The World Bank Group works with the government of India on implementation of its National Disaster Management Plan, with assessing risks and incorporating disaster risk information into development ...

With the arrival of 2026, India’s disaster management system stands more capable, more anticipatory and better integrated ...

The study shows that a disability-inclusive disaster education program in primary schools in Yogyakarta significantly ...