When you look at job descriptions in emergency management you find titles like program manager and director. The responsibilities might include disaster mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery ...

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, ...

If hospitals are to maintain capacity and vital services during extreme events and disasters there needs to be more training for staff and greater consideration of their personal circumstances, say ...

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) ...

Every year, many of us go in for a routine physical. Not because anything feels wrong, but because it is useful to know what ...

When the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s urban search and rescue team resigned after the deadly July 4, 2025, Texas floods, he told colleagues he was frustrated with bureaucratic ...

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 ...

Note: The following is a satirical look at where U.S. emergency management could be headed if current trends in privatization, technology dependence, and bureaucratic optimism continue unchecked. It’s ...

ISWA manual shows that disasters and conflicts in West Asia generate vast amounts of hazardous and mixed waste that, if poorly managed, quickly become a second crisis threatening health, the ...