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 ...

Douglas County Emergency Management is accepting registrations for its safety training course, which is meant to teach people what to do during or after a disaster. The department’s Fall 2025 CERT – ...

In the moments after a natural disaster, nurses are often the medical providers on the front lines delivering critical emergency care. However, few nursing students are educated on disaster and ...

The American College of Surgeons has released an online version of a course designed to equip physicians with best practices for responding to mass casualty incidents. The Disaster Management and ...

When natural disasters or other emergencies occur at locations with farmed animals, the impacts can be devastating. On large factory farms where thousands or even millions of animals are warehoused, ...

Editor’s note: In the wake of the devastating floods that have swept through Texas—claiming lives, displacing thousands and overwhelming local infrastructure—the urgency of disaster preparedness has ...

Emergency management agencies must have the tools and training to anticipate and respond to 21st-century risks. 5. Leading the Whole-Community Approach Disaster response is no longer just a government ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hospitals and other medical facilities have plans in place if a catastrophic event happens. But how familiar are you with those plans? Would you know what to do? The scope and frequency of ...