FEMA has announced the agency is establishing a new university called National Disaster & Emergency Management University (NDEMU) to help train emergency managers to keep pace with the rapidly ...
Doug Wintemute is a staff writer for Forbes Advisor. After completing his master’s in English at York University, he began his writing career in the higher education space. Over the past decade, Doug ...
During the recent Virginia Emergency Management Association’s Symposium program, American Red Cross Disaster Manager, Grady Devilbiss, was honored with the Warren E. Trent Individual Achievement Award ...
As we wade into another year, with COVID still around and more disasters lurking, let’s think about how we engage the next generation of emergency managers. What do we need to teach them? How do we ...
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Local emergency managers, the behind-the-scenes coordinators ...
Being prepared to manage emergency response requires continuous learning and certification. An employee at the U.S. Army Chemical Materials Activity has become one of a select few emergency management ...
Emergency management is one of the most consequential functions in state government, yet in most states it is not positioned that way. Today, only about 27 percent of state emergency management ...
The agency’s updated OnTheMap for Emergency Management tool shows how population and workforce data can support rapid response and recovery operations during hurricanes, floods, wildfires and other ...
We all know that in emergency management it is the relationships we have with other professionals that are key. The phrase is said again and again — it is the people! I was saddened to say that we ...