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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 . . .
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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 . . .
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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, . . .
“‘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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How to Support Employees with High-Risk Concerns During a COVID-19 Outbreak
EXPERT: Jenn Trivedi
FEATURED IN: SHRM.com — Tuesday, March 24, 2020
OVERVIEW: “If they absolutely have to come to work, everyone and every space they’re in contact with needs to take recommended precautions,” said Jennifer Trivedi of the University of Delaware Disaster Research Center.
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The balance between climate change and the coronavirus disaster
EXPERT: James Kendra
FEATURED IN: EcoRight News — Tuesday, March 24, 2020
OVERVIEW:
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Frontline healthcare workers in China report high rates of anxiety, street, depression, and insomnia since the coronavirus outbreak began
EXPERT: Jennifer Horney
FEATURED IN: Insider.com — Tuesday, March 24, 2020
OVERVIEW: Jennifer Horney, an epidemiologist at the University of Delaware, told Insider that other disaster studies also found that women were more likely to develop anxiety and depression than men.
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COVID-19, panic, social distancing and interventions
EXPERT: Jennifer Horney
FEATURED IN: The Financial Express — Tuesday, March 24, 2020
OVERVIEW: Dr. Jennifer Horney, a leading expert and director of epidemiology at the University of Delaware, observes that a little more panic that provides a sense of control could be particularly helpful as a coping strategy as long as it does not impact others equally in distress, following public health interventions such as self-isolation or quarantine.
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FEMA Tackles COVID-19 While Also Facing Past Disasters, Spring Flood Season
EXPERT: James Kendra
FEATURED IN: Insurance Journal — Monday, March 23, 2020
OVERVIEW: The Insurance Journal quotes an article from Bloomberg News where James Kendra, who directs the Disaster Research Center at the University of Delaware, discusses FEMA’s limits.
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Why it’s so important to flatten the curve
EXPERT: Jennifer Horney
FEATURED IN: Delaware State News — Monday, March 23, 2020
OVERVIEW: Article by Jennifer Horney and Katie Kirsch dives into the importance of slowing the spread of COVID-19.
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COVID-19 Challenges the Psyche of a Fractured Nation
EXPERT: Tricia Wachtendorf
FEATURED IN: U.S. News — Monday, March 23, 2020
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Coronavirus and Climate Change Could Stretch FEMA Past Its Limit
EXPERT: James Kendra
FEATURED IN: Bloomberg News — Saturday, March 21, 2020
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How to Triage Patients Who Need Intensive Care
EXPERT: Jennifer Horney
FEATURED IN: Scientific America — Friday, March 20, 2020
OVERVIEW: Patients with COVID-19 have inundated hospitals in Italy, forcing doctors to make agonizing decisions about who should receive lifesaving care. Patient surges could soon demand distressing triage decisions in U.S. intensive care units (ICUs), too. As of Thursday, there were more than 13,000 confirmed cases in the U.S., and the nationwide death toll had risen to 175. …
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How are professors coping with the sudden campus closure
EXPERT: Jennifer Trivedi
FEATURED IN: The Review — Friday, March 20, 2020
OVERVIEW: The university’s announcement to move spring break up to March 14, much like coronavirus, took everyone by surprise. Uncertainty and confusion followed the notice, issued after multiple members of the university community tested positive for the disease. …
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Delaware officials on lookout as variant invades U.S.
EXPERT: Jennifer Horney
FEATURED IN: Bay to Bay News — Monday, January 25, 2021
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Advocacy groups call for including Type 1 diabetes among prioritized vaccine recipients
EXPERT: Jennifer Horney
FEATURED IN: The Hill — Thursday, January 21, 2021
OVERVIEW: Jennifer Horney, a professor of epidemiology at the University of Delaware, said a reason why Type 1 diabetes may not have been initially considered as an underlying condition is because of the other health effects of Type 2 that have garnered more attention from the medical community.
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Older and less healthy
EXPERT: Tricia Wachtendorf
FEATURED IN: Healthline — Wednesday, January 13, 2021
OVERVIEW: “Less dense areas might be at an advantage compared to geographic areas that are more densely populated, and they may also be less connected to some areas where there’s a concentrated case,” Wachtendorf said. …
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EXPERT: Tricia Wachtendorf
FEATURED IN: Florida News Station: My News 13 — Wednesday, January 13, 2021
OVERVIEW: “You gain trust in drops and lose it in buckets,” – DRC director Tricia Wachtendorf on COIVD-19 missteps on communication and the challenges that lie ahead when another disaster strikes.
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Local response to chaos at the capitol
EXPERT: Tricia Wachtendorf
FEATURED IN: ABC 6 Action News — Tuesday, January 12, 2021
OVERVIEW: Matt O’ Donnell spoke with Tricia Wachtendorf University of Delaware’s Director of Disaster Research and Professor of Sociology & Criminal Justice. They discuss how major catastrophes (COVID, weather events, insurgence,) expose other major issues & can spur tremendous change in society.
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Genie Chance Alaska Earthquake
EXPERT: Tricia Wachtendorf
FEATURED IN: The New York Times — Thursday, December 31, 2020
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Genie Chance and the Great Alaska Earthquake: An Update
EXPERT: Tricia Wachtendorf
FEATURED IN: The New York Times: The Daily — Thursday, December 31, 2020
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Eliminate Billion-Dollar Disasters: Equitable Science-Based Disaster Policy for a Resilient Future
EXPERT: A.R. Siders
FEATURED IN: dayoneproject.org — Thursday, December 3, 2020
OVERVIEW: Dr. A.R. Siders’s has been working with two faculty at the University of Maryland to write up a short policy brief on how the Biden Administration could overhaul disaster policy in the US to make it more equitable and transparent. Their recommendations are being released online and are in the short document available for download on the website.
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Entangled Roots and Otherwise Possibilities: An Anthropology of Disasters COVID-19 Research Agenda
EXPERT: Jennifer Trivedi
FEATURED IN: — Wednesday, December 2, 2020
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Disasters Leave a Rise in Suicides in Their Wake: Study
EXPERT: Jennifer Horney
FEATURED IN: U.S. News — Friday, November 20, 2020
OVERVIEW: Researchers found that the severe emotional distress and anxiety for those who have lived through major disasters can also lead to suicide. “That finding is important, I think, because those could be preventable deaths with better disaster preparedness and response,” said study author Jennifer Horney, founding director of the epidemiology program in the College of Health Sciences at the University of Delaware.
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