FEATURED DRC MEDIA PLACEMENTS
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 . . .
READ ARTICLE
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 . . .
READ ARTICLE
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.’ […]”
READ ARTICLE
Journalists interested in interviewing our experts?
Call 1-302-NEWS or email us at mediarelations@udel.edu
DRC MEDIA PLACEMENTS: 233
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:
READ ARTICLE
How long with COVID-19 last
EXPERT: Jennifer Horney
FEATURED IN: PopularScience.com — Tuesday, March 17, 2020
OVERVIEW:
READ ARTICLE
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”
READ ARTICLE
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.
READ ARTICLE
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.
READ ARTICLE
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.
READ ARTICLE
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.
READ ARTICLE
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.
READ ARTICLE
What does it mean to declare a pandemic?
EXPERT: Jennifer Horney
FEATURED IN: Healthline.com — Thursday, March 12, 2020
OVERVIEW:
READ ARTICLE
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:
READ ARTICLE
DRC MEDIA PLACEMENTS: 233
Apple and Google introduce new teach for COVID-19 contact tracing
EXPERT: Jennifer Horney
FEATURED IN: WellandGood.com — Friday, April 10, 2020
OVERVIEW: Contact tracing is a way for epidemiologists to investigate outbreaks and communicable diseases, explains Jennifer Horney, PhD, MPH, an epidemiology professor and founding director of the epidemiology program at the University of Delaware.
READ ARTICLE
Coronavirus Q&A: When will the shutdown end?
EXPERT: Jennifer Horney
FEATURED IN: DelawareOnline.com — Friday, April 10, 2020
OVERVIEW: University of Delaware professor Jennifer Horney, who also is the founding director of the university’s epidemiology program, said this week that removing restrictions currently in place should ideally wait until Delaware sees a decline in newly reported coronavirus cases.
READ ARTICLE
Those optimistic coronavirus numbers expect you to keep hardcore social distancing
EXPERT: Jennifer Horney
FEATURED IN: Mashable.com — Thursday, April 9, 2020
OVERVIEW:
READ ARTICLE
Together/Alone: Sorry to Ask, But What Happens If There’s Another Emergency?
EXPERT: Tricia Wachtendorf
FEATURED IN: News 13 Spectrum News — Wednesday, April 8, 2020
OVERVIEW:
READ ARTICLE
COVID-19 prompts questions about which jobs are classed “hazardous”
EXPERT: Jennifer Trivedi
FEATURED IN: Marketplace — Tuesday, April 7, 2020
OVERVIEW: “Hazard pay” is a squishy term. Many jobs once considered pretty safe now involve a high level of risk because they may expose people to COVID-19. That’s led an increasing number of workers who have to be out and about to demand hazard pay. …
READ ARTICLE
America’s heartland is expected to flood again, but this time amid coronavirus
EXPERT: James Kendra
FEATURED IN: Grist — Monday, April 6, 2020
OVERVIEW:
READ ARTICLE
Coronavirus Updates: Models Show Possible DE Peaks
EXPERT: Jennifer Horney
FEATURED IN: TownSquareDelaware.com — Thursday, April 2, 2020
OVERVIEW: Dr. Jennifer Horney, a founding director of the epidemiology program at the University of Delaware, says varying models predict the peak of the coronavirus in Delaware could come anytime from April 11 to May 10.
READ ARTICLE
Delaware coronavirus peak coming next week, forecasters say
EXPERT: Jennifer Horney
FEATURED IN: WDEL.com — Thursday, April 2, 2020
OVERVIEW: “I think next week we’re really going to see the worst of this,” said Jennifer Horney, founding director and professor of the epidemiology program at the University of Delaware.
READ ARTICLE
Putting the pandemic in perspective
EXPERT: Jennifer Horney
FEATURED IN: UDaily — Tuesday, March 31, 2020
OVERVIEW: UD epidemiologist Jennifer Horney explains social distancing, testing rates and more to a global audience.
READ ARTICLE
