Jan 21, 20212 min read
"In God we trust, all others bring data"
A White House press release today highlighted that, "[t]o monitor outcomes, the National Strategy will establish a data-driven,...
Jan 19, 20212 min read
Calibrating Theory with Practice - IEM7e Reviewed by ASIS
George Haddow, Jane Bullock, and I have always considered our efforts on Introduction to Emergency Management to be a genuine 'labor of...
Jan 5, 20212 min read
Values-Based Emergency and Risk Management
Emergency and risk management are most effective when they are values-based. We place extraordinarily-high value on life and health when...
Nov 1, 20203 min read
An Unlikely Defense of the Mask Mandate
Why do we need a mask mandate? Perhaps not for the reasons one might expect. It's no secret that resistance to masks remains at an...
May 4, 20202 min read
COVID Risk Communication: Enabling Risk Comparisons
This article published today (Critics said the flu kills more than coronavirus. Why that's not a fair comparison -- and now, it's not...
Apr 30, 20201 min read
Excess Deaths: Insurance Data Suggests It May Be Even Worse Than We Think
USAA just returned an additional $280M in unused car insurance premiums, bringing the total of returned USAA premiums to $800M since the...
Jan 22, 20183 min read
Why Community Resilience Matters
On January 13th, the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency issued an errant statewide alert warning of an inbound ballistic missile and...
Mar 6, 20177 min read
Climate Change Integration (Remarks from the February 27, 2017 launch of Climate Change and Natural
The following is a summary of my remarks at the launch of Dr. Vinod Thomas' book Climate Change and Natural Disasters: Good evening. Dr....
Jan 7, 201611 min read
Community-Based Mitigation Opportunities for Businesses
The following is a summary of my remarks at the Singapore Business Federation BCM Annual Conference held on January 6, 2016. As an...
Sep 30, 20154 min read
Political Implications: When the Donor is also the Victim
I was commissioned by the US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in 2011 to draft a white paper entitled Investigating the...
