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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Emergency Management (EM) Practitioners and Academicians have been investigating key elements to professionalize and standardize the EM career field for over twenty years. This paper presents findings ...

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 ...

Disaster and emergency management is an interdisciplinary field that encompasses the phases of prevention, mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery in order to protect lives, property, and ...

This course is geared to clinicians and non-clinicians in long-term care settings. It is appropriate for learners with various roles and responsibility levels, including: Administrators, leaders, or ...

The U.S. emergency & disaster management system is undergoing its second major transformation since 9/11. Without continued federal grant funding and support from DHS and FEMA, the U.S. emergency and ...

Dodge County Emergency Manager Tom Smith is shown with his award. He has been named the Emergency Management Professional of the Year by the Nebraska Association of Emergency Management. When Dodge ...

SCOTT CO., Iowa (KWQC) - Brian Payne, Scott County Emergency Management Director, has been named by the Iowa Emergency Management Association as the Emergency Manager of the Year. Officials said the ...

The countries of the Central American region and the Dominican Republic are highly vulnerable and exposed to all types of natural hazards, which have intensified due to the effects of climate change.