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Public health emergency preparedness has received substantial support in the U.S. over the past 12 years. With federal funding and guidance, local and state public health agencies have since developed tremendous capabilities. Now, many agencies are working to integrate public health objectives into a much larger emergency management framework. In this podcast episode, two people responsible for facilitating part of this integration in Los Angeles County share what they see now and what they hope to accomplish.
If it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a region to plan for a special event. Ryan's a veteran of many large program efforts and now leads the City of San Jose's Office of Emergency Management as it prepares with the San Francisco Bay Area for Super Bowl 50. In this episode, Ryan describes special event planning in a collaborative region and overall preparedness efforts inside the nation's 10th largest city.
Most emergency management agencies struggle to find and sustain sufficient resources. Virtual Operations Support Teams (VOSTs) - remote groups of individuals who assist response agencies by leveraging social media resources in alternative ways - have begun to make important contributions to emergency management. Jim is a Public Information Officer assigned to a Type I Wildland Fire Incident Management Team. Marlita leads that team's VOST. In this Complete EM podcast episode, they discuss what they do, how they do it, and why their VOST provides tremendous value.
Emergency management exercises have been occuring for a long time, but the number, frequency and scope of exercises dramatically increased after 9/11 under the Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP). In the early days of HSEEP, the pace of exercising was fast and furious. Kim and Justin we there, just starting their careers in emergency management.
Over the last 15 years, there's been a huge increase in the number of emergency management degree holders. There's also been a number of new emergency managmement jobs in both the public and private sectors to take in some of these new graduates... and others with relevent experience. In this podcast, we speak with a guy who's played a signifcant role in both public and private sector emergency management. He compares and contrasts the roles and what it takes to be successful in each.
Phillip is an author, lecturer and director of risk security and resilience for the University of California Office of the President. He's spent a lot of time looking at, communicating and building consensus for effective risk management. In this podcast, he shares what he sees as three simple steps sometimes overlooked in emergency management and how technology doesn't necessarily provide the help many need.
Borrowing plans, slide presentations, pictures and illustrations is something that emergency managers do. In this podcast, an experienced intellectual property attorney chats with us about what is protected, how protection occurs, how to avoid legal troubles and how to manage intellectual property with integrity.
Many emergency managers have at least one "war story" to share about donations management. Its not easy and its nearly impossible to do well without pre-planning. Richard has worked large-scale, high profile logistics missions for decades as a U.S Army Officer and state-level emergency operations manager. He joined us to explain what works and what doesn't in donations management.
For over 17 years, Greg has helped some of the biggest and fastest moving companies in the U.S. engage their customers with information technology. He's a mobile and tablet experience strategist who often speaks at conferences and is now working on his fifth book. In this podcast, Greg discusses what works and doesn't work in software user interface design, and where he thinks IT is going... at least in the near-term. Emergency managers thinking about web, mobile app and other software design should listen-in.
Interested in obtaining an emergency managemement degree? Jessica Jensen shared her view as a leader in the development of emergency management as an academic domain, the work that lies ahead and the value of emergency management education programs. She also talked about some great opportunites to collect, synthesize and conduct new research.
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