Health Risks Are Rising in Mountain Areas Flooded by Hurricane Helene and Cut Off From Clean Water, Power and Hospitals

EXPERT: Sarabeth Baxter Lowe
FEATURED IN: The Conversation — Tuesday, October 1, 2024
OVERVIEW: Hurricane Helene’s flooding has subsided, but health risks are growing in hard-hit regions of the North Carolina mountains, where many people lost access to power and clean water. …
 
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Planning Now for the Disasters of Tomorrow

EXPERT: Jennifer M Trivedi
FEATURED IN: UDaily — Saturday, August 10, 2024
OVERVIEW: “Disasters know no boundary lines. Floods, earthquakes, wildfires, hurricanes, tornadoes, drought, conflict — they happen anywhere and everywhere on our planet. It’s why the University of Delaware’s Disaster Research Center (DRC) has a global reach, and it’s why that reach has global impact. You could see both DRC’s reach and impact during a daylong workshop for graduate students, held during its 60th anniversary celebration earlier this year. The study and work those students were doing will help policy makers and leaders around the world prepare for disasters of the future.”…
 
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How heat and a hurricane combined for misery in Houston

EXPERT: Jennifer M Trivedi
FEATURED IN: E&E News by Politico — Friday, July 19, 2024
OVERVIEW: “Compound disasters such as hurricanes and heat waves are increasingly testing Texas and other states along the Gulf of Mexico, said Jennifer Trivedi, an expert on disaster vulnerability at the University of Delaware. […]”

“‘There’s a phrase people use: “There’s’ no such thing as a natural disaster,”‘ Trivedi said. ‘Really what we mean by that is there is always some sort of human intervention, human decision-making, human structures that are shaping the systems that really ramp a hazard into a disaster.’ […]”

“At the same time, experts say equitable citywide access to cooling centers and other emergency resources is crucial for protecting vulnerable populations when the lights do go out. And, in the long term, building up climate resilience in socially vulnerable communities is key to better outcomes when disasters strike. ‘It really is an equity question,’ Trivedi said. ‘That’s something that has to be part of these conversations.’ […]”
 
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Evacuating is expensive. Recovery is long and hard.

EXPERT: Jennifer Trivedi
FEATURED IN: Perci — Monday, September 18, 2023
OVERVIEW: “Jennifer Trivedi, Assistant Professor of Anthropology is Core Faculty at University of Delaware’s Disaster Research Center. She studies “the people part of disasters. How people make decisions before, during and after a disaster and what influences those decisions – their personal histories and circumstances as well as larger social and cultural contexts they find themselves in.” She spoke with us recently. Here are edited excerpts from our conversation.” …
 
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This N.J. town erected barriers to hold back the sea. A public fight erupted.

EXPERT: A.R. Siders
FEATURED IN: Washington Post — Friday, August 18, 2023
OVERVIEW: NORTH WILDWOOD, N.J. — From atop the local lifeguard headquarters, Mayor Patrick Rosenello looks out over the shrinking shoreline of his hometown.

To the north, past the kaleidoscope of umbrellas that dot the beach, he can see the massive bulkheads the city has installed to hold back the encroaching sea — the same ones at the heart of an ongoing fight with the state, which has sued North Wildwood and fined it more than $8.5 million for that and other work it says was unauthorized, misguided and destructive.
 
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A history of Hawaii’s sirens and the difference it could have made against Maui fires

EXPERT: Sarah Elizabeth DeYoung
FEATURED IN: National Public Radio (NPR) — Monday, August 14, 2023
OVERVIEW: DRC Core Faculty contributed to this recent article on the key factors that should be considered in warning systems in the context of the #MauiFires
 
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Friday Fellow Feature: Tykeara Mims

EXPERT: Sarabeth Lowe
FEATURED IN: The Bill Anderson Fund — Friday, August 4, 2023
OVERVIEW: Our featured fellow for August is TyKeara Mims, a DrPH student studying Epidemiology at Texas A&M University. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from Spelman College and a Master of Public Health (MPH) degree in Community Health Education (epidemiology minor) from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. …
 
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A Caribbean island’s quest to become the world’s first climate-resilient nation

EXPERT: Jennifer Trivedi
FEATURED IN: BBC — Wednesday, April 19, 2023
OVERVIEW: … “This element of neighbourly communication is hugely important for early warning systems, says Jennifer Trivedi, assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Delaware’s Disaster Research Center. ‘Often, when I ask people in the field where they heard about an incoming hurricane, or changing floodwaters, they talk about hearing it from friends or neighbours,’ she says. ‘Someone knocked on their door. A friend called their house. They heard about it at church. Those networks are essential because people know them, they trust them.’ This intricate communication chain provides important layers to reach people in more ways, she adds, over and above warnings sent to smartphones. ‘We can’t expect that will be the only warning system. Many people around the world don’t have [a smartphone], don’t use all its capabilities, or maybe they’re in an area that doesn’t get a signal as well.'”…

…”For Trivedi, habitability ultimately hinges on cooperation between people on many different levels – from local cultural decision-making to international policy changes. ‘Keeping areas habitable is a decision that has to be made not only in local city halls, but also in spaces like the United Nations.'”…
 
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How I Teach – Anthropology

EXPERT: Jennifer Trivedi
FEATURED IN: UDaily — Tuesday, April 11, 2023
OVERVIEW: “How I Teach – Anthropology” featuring Dr. Kedron Thomas and speaking with Dr. Jennifer Trivedi. “An applied anthropologist, Trivedi said she wants her students — regardless of their class year or major — to learn the fundamentals of the discipline and, most importantly, how they can use that knowledge in their daily lives.”
 
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What Happened to Us

EXPERT: Valerie Marlowe
FEATURED IN: New York Times Magazine — Wednesday, February 22, 2023
OVERVIEW: Quoted in an article re: Columbia’s COVID-19 Oral History Project
 
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People who didn’t know they had COVID-19 drove its spread in China

EXPERT: Jennifer Horney
FEATURED IN: ScienceNews.org — Tuesday, March 17, 2020
OVERVIEW:
 
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How long with COVID-19 last

EXPERT: Jennifer Horney
FEATURED IN: PopularScience.com — Tuesday, March 17, 2020
OVERVIEW:
 
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The Big Rhetorical Podcast Episode 34: Responses to COVID-19

EXPERT: Jennifer Trivedi
FEATURED IN: The Anchor by Spotify — Monday, March 16, 2020
OVERVIEW: This is audio podcast subject is the “Response to COVID-19”
 
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COVID-19: Exploring the unanswered questions (Video)

EXPERT: Jennifer Horney
FEATURED IN: Newswise.com — Monday, March 16, 2020
OVERVIEW: Jennifer Horney joins the Newswise Live Expert Panel discussion on unique angles to the COVID-19 outbreak of interest to the public and the media, including public health, testing, business and financial markets, 2020 elections and more.
 
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The Big Rhetorical Podcast Episode 34

EXPERT: Jenn Trivedi
FEATURED IN: The Big Rhetorical Podcast — Monday, March 16, 2020
OVERVIEW: Charles Woods covers academic and institutional responses to the COVID-19 global pandemic. This episode features three guests: Dr. Jenn Trivedi, Assistant Professor and Core Faculty Member at the Disaster Research Center at the University of Delaware, Allegra Smith, Ph.D. student and Assistant Director of the Purdue Professional Writing Program at Purdue University, and Alek Janakievski, an undergraduate student at the University of Dayton.
 
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EXPERT: Tricia Wachtendorf
FEATURED IN: MarketWatch: Outside the Box — Monday, March 16, 2020
OVERVIEW: Opinion written by Tricia Wachtendorf, Professor of Sociology at University of Delaware and Director of the Disaster Research Center. “But rather than focus too much attention on that choice, what we should instead be concerned about is how supply chains and related just-in-time or vendor-management inventory models are highly efficient during routine times, but prove less agile with the sudden and uncertain conditions of an emerging crisis” says Wachtendorf.
 
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Trump says pandemic crisis was unforeseen, but lots of people foresaw it

EXPERT: Jennifer Horney
FEATURED IN: CNN.com — Sunday, March 15, 2020
OVERVIEW: “I think everyone is well aware that our travel, economy — everything — is so closely linked globally that there would be almost no potential for an infectious disease not to spread globally at this point,” said Jennifer Horney.
 
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In the U.S. coronavirus crisis, the buck stops here,

EXPERT: Jennifer Horney
FEATURED IN: Deutsche Welle — Friday, March 13, 2020
OVERVIEW: The World Health Organization is advising consumers to use contactless payments whenever possible. Epidemiologist Jennifer Horney says this is essential because even in advanced countries where mobile payment is widespread, infections couldn’t be contained.
 
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What does it mean to declare a pandemic?

EXPERT: Jennifer Horney
FEATURED IN: Healthline.com — Thursday, March 12, 2020
OVERVIEW:
 
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Confusing Oval Office address failed to calm public’s virus fears, experts say

EXPERT: Jennifer Horney
FEATURED IN: Sinclair Broadcast Group — Thursday, March 12, 2020
OVERVIEW:
 
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