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Challenges for the Disaster Workforce During a Compound Hurricane-Pandemic
This article identifies how emergency management planning for both the changing dynamics of COVID-19 and hurricane season may change under a compound threat. COVID-19 and the increase of natural disasters occurring pushes new considerations to b...
Cascading Risks of COVID-19 Resurgence During an Active 2020 Atlantic Hurricane Season
This article reviews risks of hurricanes to coastal states during the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. Protecting the population from hurricane hazards revolves around evacuation and sheltering individuals. However, e...
Nonprofit Capacity to Manage Hurricane-Pandemic Threat
This report examines the professional capacity of nonprofit organizations when responding to disasters occurring simultaneously. This report includes:Service delivery strategies for nonprofits during COVID-19Impact of natural disasters on nonpro...
The COVID-19 Pandemic and Wildfire Smoke
This article identifies the potential for dangerous interactions between COVID-19 and smoke pollution This resource includes: Strategies to manage the combination of public health threats Recommended for environmental and public health officia...
Orchestrating Performance of Healthcare Networks Subjected to the Compound Events of Natural Disasters and Pandemic
This article combines wildfire data with varying courses of the spread of COVID-19 to evaluate the effectiveness of different strategies for managing patient demand. It shows that losing access to medical care is a function of the relative occur...
Responding to Simultaneous Crises: Communications and Social Norms of Mask Behavior During Wildfires and COVID-19
This article looks into the COVID-19 pandemic and the potential for co-occurring wildfires and the health risks that they pose. While there are behaviors that can be implemented to reduce the negative impacts, government agencies and public heal...
A Multi-Hazards Earth Science Perspective on the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Potential for Concurrent and Cascading Crises
This article explores an epidemic model with a concurrent disaster event, which predicts a greater infection rate following the events during the pre-infection rate peaks period compared with post peak events. This highlights the need for enacti...
Compound Risks of Hurricane Evacuation Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States
This article models how a hurricane evacuation from four different counties in a state would impact COVID-19 case levels. The number of COVID-19 cases produced by the evacuation is influenced by the ability of destination counties meeting the ne...
A Rapid Assessment of Disaster Preparedness Needs and Resources During the COVID-19 Pandemic
This article provides a rapid qualitative assessment method to determine the impact of the pandemic on preparedness and response to natural disasters and the impact of past experiences with natural disasters in responding to the pandemic. This a...
Data-Driven Operation of the Resilient Electric Grid: A Case of COVID-19
This article explores the resilience of power grids in the face of pandemics and various machine learning tools that can be helpful to augment human operators are discussed by reviewing the impact of COVID-19 on power grid operations and actions...
Compound Natural and Human Disasters: Managing Drought and COVID-19 to Sustain Global Agriculture and Food Sectors
This article describes how droughts and pandemics interact and identifies appropriate policies to address them individually and together. Disasters, both natural and human made disrupt global food supply chains when they occur at the same time a...
The Mental Health Impacts of Successive Disasters
Experiencing a natural disaster at the same time as a global pandemic is associated with negative impacts on mental health. This article studies resiliency at the individual and community levels to understand problematic impacts following a disa...
A Community Case Study on Geographic, Environmental, and Social Health Disparities in COVID-19 Disease
This article examines the socioeconomic, geographic, and environmental vulnerabilities within a rural area. The article reviews that rural areas are particularly susceptible to the continuum of expected COVID-19 disease and related outcomes. Rur...
Tangible Tabletops and Dual Reality for Crisis Management
This article reviews a study between tangible and tactile interactions. The study consisted of 32 participants remotely displacing robots and exploring a simulated disaster area. This study includes: Difference between two interaction technique...
When Emergencies and Disasters Collide
This article details the interaction between the responses to both the COVID-19 pandemic and the Magna earthquake in Utah. COVID-19 may have limited injuries or the loss of life during the earthquake, and it also enabled an early activation of t...
Navigating the Wildfire-Pandemic Interface
This article provides preliminary data that suggests the current challenges around collective action to address wildfire risk may be further exacerbated due to COVID-19, and that the pandemic has potentially widened existing disparities in house...
Studying Social Workers' Roles in Natural Disasters During a Global Pandemic
This article shares practice and research recommendations for a social worker relating to therapeutic interactions, social justice, and public health during disasters. Social workers are viewed as a source of reliable information about safety, r...
Maintaining Critical Infrastructure Resilience to Natural Hazards During the COVID-19 Pandemic
This article describes alternative approaches that an energy organization can take to prepare for a concurrent disaster. Maintaining strong infrastructure during a natural disaster during COVID-19 is challenging and has the potential to disrupt ...
Caring for the Forgotten Children: Rebuilding Puerto Rico After Hurricane Maria, Earthquakes, and COVID-19
This article focuses on mental health resiliency within child and adolescent groups as well as the general community members. Communities have vulnerabilities that are often displayed when being impacted by disasters and it is important to learn...
Individual Hurricane Evacuation Intentions During the COVID-19 Pandemic
This article discusses how individual hurricane preparedness is often influenced by the additional risk stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic. A major finding was that the perceptions of flood and pandemic risks have opposite effects on preparedne...
Dueling Emergencies: Flood Evacuation Ridesharing During the COVID-19 Pandemic
This paper examines the complexity behind the decision-making relating to rideshare during an emergency like COVID-19. Sharing resources during disaster events like vehicles, supports the expansion of critical capacity and enables inclusive disa...
COVID-19 Crisis Communications: The Challenge for Environmental Organizations
This article examines the ways environmental organizations amended their crisis communications to underscore their relevance to crises and their role in problem-solving. At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. environmental organizations...
Special Section: COVID-19/Public Health Preparedness and Response
This article is a collection of COVID-19 treatises that identify some of the flaws in the American social and economic, health care, and disaster response systems and how they often contribute to national disaster mitigation challenges. This art...
COVID-19 and Wildfires: Concurrent Disasters and Risk Communication in B.C.
This report is based on a qualitative study examining health communications during concurrent disasters and the connection with decision-making. This resource includes: Research questions Focus area Methods Preliminary Findings Recommended...
Building Resilient Coalitions: Health and Medical Response Through COVID-19 Concurrent Events
This article analyzes the critical role that non-profit organizations play in capacity-building among healthcare institutions in a large medical center. An assessment of the conceptual resilience model is used by the organizations as they respon...
Nonprofit Response to Concurrent and Consecutive Disaster Events in Puerto Rico
This article examines how nonprofit organizations are prominent stakeholders when working in community-level recovery efforts. It explores the role of nonprofits to facilitate dynamic information flows, fill in critical service delivery gaps lef...
Mutual Aid: A Grassroots Model for Justice and Equity in Emergency Management
This article provides lessons for a more equitable approach to emergency management. Grassroots mutual aid programs regained prominence when supporting equitable approaches to emergency management during many concurrent disasters in 2020. Disast...
Using Best Practices to Sustain Training Programs During COVID-19 and Other Disasters
This collection of resources from a virtual workshop includes best practices of National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIH) Worker Training Program, awardees, and partnering organizations to sustain training programs during COVID-1...
Environmental Justice and Natural Disasters/COVID-19 Virtual Town Hall Meetings
The Federal Interagency Working Group on Environmental Justice hosted three virtual regional town hall meetings to gain a better understanding of how natural disasters and COVID-19 impact minority, low-income, overburdened, and underserved commu...
Concurrent Threats and Disasters: Modeling and Managing Risk and Resilience
This article provides a literature review of how policymakers were prompted to reassess operations and management strategies that support society鈥檚 critical functions like infrastructure, healthcare services, supply chains, and emergency respons...
Lessons from Concurrent Disasters: COVID-19 and Eight Hurricanes
This literary review investigates the relationship of local government leaders and emergency managers in Louisiana who worked collaboratively to respond to the global pandemic and an 鈥渆pidemic鈥� of landfalling hurricanes during 2020. The review s...
2023 Walter S. Mangold Award Winner
Walter S. Mangold dedicated his life to the practice of environmental health in an extraordinary and exemplary way. In doing so, he became a beacon of excellence and inspiration for all environmental health professionals who followed...
Saltwater Intrusion Resources
Saltwater intrusion refers to the movement of salt water into freshwater aquifers. This can degrade groundwater quality, contaminating sources used for drinking and crop irrigation. Extended droughts can push this saltwater-freshwater bounda...
October 2023: Direct From CDC/Environmental Health Services
Journal of Environmental HealthOctober 2023Volume 86, Number 3 Editor's Note: The TikTok成人版 strives to provide up-to-date and relevant information on environmental health and to build partnerships in the professio...
October 2023
Journal of Environmental Health Volume 86, Number 3 View This IssueArticles Persistence and Transfer of Enveloped Phi 6 Bacteriophage on Hotel Guest Room SurfacesManaging Mosquito-Borne Diseases as an Emergency for Mosquito Control: The South Ko...
FD112 FDA Food Code Course
Course OverviewThis free, four-day, virtual course prepares participants to:Identify the intent, design, and scope of the Food Code.Discuss the criteria of 鈥淎PPROVED鈥� food as defined in the Food CodeExplain recommendations for water, plumbing, w...
Administrative Assistant
Company: TikTok成人版Location: Denver, CO Date Posted: September 14, 2023Application Deadline: Open Until FilledEmployment Type: Full TimeSalary: $50,000-55,000The Administrative Assistant for our Communications, Mem...
Congressional Hill Day
Hill Day is our opportunity to introduce and enlighten U.S. Congress members, from both the House and Senate, about environmental health in their state, how environmental health impacts their constituents, and ways to improve federal environment...
The Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Reauthorization Act
September 5, 2023 The Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Reauthorization Act (PAHPRA) undergoes review and is reauthorized by Congress every 5 years, the first time in 2018 and again at the end of September 2023. Congress has mark...
Ensign Global College Partnership Begins With Workshop in Accra, Ghana
September 6, 2023 Executive Director, David T. Dyjack, DrPH, CIH Environmental and occupational health challenges are a global concern鈥攁nd West Africa is no exception. The interplay between the well-being and environm...
Program Committees
Subject matter experts provide guidance, input, and expertise to leadership and program staff, fellow environmental health professionals, and partner organizations on environmental health policies and programs. They help us:Better understand wha...
FDA Appoints Deputy Commissioner for Human Foods Program
August 29, 2023 The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced the appointment of James 鈥淛im鈥� Jones as the first-ever deputy commissioner for the Human Foods Program. As deputy commissioner of the Human Foods Program, J...
House and Senate Appropriators Remain Far Apart on Fiscal Year 2024 Budgets
August 25, 2023 Congressional appropriators remain where they were earlier this summer regarding budgets that affect environmental health. Not much movement on the appropriation budgets for the Centers for Disease Control and...
Spark! Webinar Series
Spark! is an ongoing series of members-only skill-building webinars, provided in short half-hour segments to fit your busy schedule. Each webinar provides .5 CEs toward maintaining your TikTok成人版 credential. These webinars are only available on our C...
TikTok成人版 Sunsets Three Credentials
August 2023Our Board of Directors voted this July to discontinue three of our credentials: Certified Food Outbreak Investigator (CFOI), Certified in Food Safety Supplier Audits (CFSSA), and the Registered Food Safety Auditor (RFSA) credential.Wh...
September 2023: Direct From CDC/Environmental Health Services
September 2023Volume 86, Number 2 Editor's Note: The TikTok成人版 strives to provide up-to-date and relevant information on environmental health and to build partnerships in the profession. In pursuit of these goals,...
September 2023
Journal of Environmental Health Volume 86, Number 2 View This IssueArticles A Collaborative Approach to National Food Code AdoptionFederal Meat and Poultry Inspection Duties and Requirements鈥擯art 4: Food Defense, Product Sampling, Rules of Pract...
Rural and Frontier Committee
The mission of our Rural and Frontier Committee is to be a resource for environmental health professionals and TikTok成人版 leadership dedicated to developing resources and programs to support and increase the workforce capacity and improve conditions i...