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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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Delaware officials on lookout as variant invades U.S.
EXPERT: Jennifer Horney
FEATURED IN: Bay to Bay News — Monday, January 25, 2021
OVERVIEW:
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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 and the Great Alaska Earthquake: An Update
EXPERT: Tricia Wachtendorf
FEATURED IN: The New York Times: The Daily — Thursday, December 31, 2020
OVERVIEW:
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Genie Chance Alaska Earthquake
EXPERT: Tricia Wachtendorf
FEATURED IN: The New York Times — Thursday, December 31, 2020
OVERVIEW:
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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
OVERVIEW:
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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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We want our freedom back: Delawareans grow frustrated over shutdown, plan to protest
EXPERT: Jennifer Horney
FEATURED IN: WDEL.com — Tuesday, April 21, 2020
OVERVIEW: University of Delaware epidemiologist Jennifer Horney highlights the unseen indirect health effects that can come from major disasters.
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What would an economic reopening in Delaware entail and when can we expect it?
EXPERT: Jennifer Horney
FEATURED IN: The News Journal — Saturday, April 18, 2020
OVERVIEW: Jennifer Horney speaks to the News Journal on what reopening Delaware could look like.
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Answering Key Coronavirus Questions (Audio)
EXPERT: Jennifer Horney
FEATURED IN: Delaware Public Media — Friday, April 17, 2020
OVERVIEW: Delaware Public Media speaks with University of Delaware epidemiology expert Jennifer Horney to discuss her insights on key coronavirus questions.
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The Green (Audio)
EXPERT: Jennifer Horney
FEATURED IN: Delaware Public Media — Friday, April 17, 2020
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What Happens When Other Disasters Hit during a Pandemic?
EXPERT: Tricia Wachtendorf
FEATURED IN: Scientific America — Thursday, April 16, 2020
OVERVIEW: The routines of tornado season are familiar ones across the Southeast: Residents keep weather radios close by, schools run tornado drills, and towns test sirens. But the deadly storms that swept through the region over Easter Sunday came amid a pandemic that has touched virtually every corner of the U.S., complicating disaster preparation and response. To maintain social distancing, officials in some locations decided against opening community shelters at all, while those in Louisiana’s Ouachita Parish, where several hundred homes were damaged, worked to house displaced people in hotels instead of shelters. …
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What Happens When Other Disasters Hit during a Pandemic?
EXPERT: Tricia Wachtendorf
FEATURED IN: Scientific American — Thursday, April 16, 2020
OVERVIEW: Across the country, emergency managers already stretched thin by the unprecedented health crisis are making on-the-fly decisions about how to respond to other disasters—from flooding to hurricanes—in a way that minimizes the risk of further spreading the novel coronavirus. …
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What Happens When Other Disasters Hit during a Pandemic?
EXPERT: Tricia Wachtendorf
FEATURED IN: Scientific American — Thursday, April 16, 2020
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Maine unable to report on daily coronavirus tests
EXPERT: Jennifer Horney
FEATURED IN: Governing.com — Thursday, April 16, 2020
OVERVIEW: Jennifer Horney, founding director of the epidemiology program at the University of Delaware, says tracking the number of negative COVID-19 test results is essential.
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Almost 62,000 have sought unemployment in Delaware over the past four weeks
EXPERT: Jennifer Horney
FEATURED IN: Delaware State News — Thursday, April 16, 2020
OVERVIEW: University of Delaware professor Jennifer Horney said Delaware will need to ensure the growth of its caseload is slowing, the state has an adequate supply of protective equipment for health care workers and others, rapid testing is available for anyone and the spread of the virus from individuals can be better tracked.
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Multiple Placements
EXPERT: Jennifer Horney
FEATURED IN: Delaware State News — Wednesday, April 15, 2020
OVERVIEW: Delaware State News, Eventual reopening of Delaware projected to be gradual, April 15, 2020, https://delawarestatenews.net/coronavirus/eventual-reopening-of-delaware-projected-to-be-gradual/.
Independent.co.uk, U.S. buys 750,000 coronavirus testing kits from South Korea, April 14, 2020, https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/coronavirus-testing-kits-us-south-korea-a9465106.html.
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