An App a Day: If you’re in an area where you might find yourself in a natural disaster, consider loading these apps on to your phone

By Editor|2021-04-20T11:21:21+00:00April 20th, 2021|

When disaster strikes, it’s often too late to start hunting down information on how to handle whatever threats are coming your way. To help prepare in advance, emergency preparedness apps are becoming increasingly common and [...]

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Man and Machine: A new project seeks to pair community leaders with machine learning to help identify disaster-related risks

By Editor|2021-04-20T11:19:53+00:00April 20th, 2021|

A multidisciplinary group is looking to pair community leaders with machine learning, to help develop a tool capable of helping to respond to emergencies using social media. With initial work funded by a grant from [...]

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The Health of Health: The pandemic has drawn attention to the ability of heath care resources to respond to large scale threats

By Editor|2021-04-20T07:04:58+00:00April 20th, 2021|

With the pandemic still running strong through most of the world, a World Bank report seeks to provide direction as to how to add resilience to healthcare systems in advance of future national or international [...]

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