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Jeff Levi is Executive Director of the Trust For America’s Health, a non-profit, non-partisan health policy organization, which does a lot of excellent work on public preparedness. Each year, the group publishes a widely-covered and very helpful report, “Ready or Not? Protecting the Public’s Health from Disease, Disasters, and Bioterrorism” which grades each state’s readiness for [...]

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One non-profit organization which has been in the forefront of citizen preparedness is the Home Safety Council. Under the leadership of Meri-k Appy, the Council has developed a number of creative and user-friendly preparedness education programs. In this daily segment of “What Should We Tell The Public?” (for National Preparedness Month), Appy discusses the Council’s ‘Get [...]

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In this segment of “What Should We Tell The Public?”, Hilary Styron, Director of the National Organization on Disability’s Emergency Preparedness Initiative, points out the increased challenges faced by citizens with special needs in preparing and responding to disasters. Styron says that they need to identify their needs in advance and try to develop an [...]

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This installment of the blog’s daily National Preparedness Month’s “What Should We Tell The Public?” series features Terry Bischoff, President of the American Red Cross of Greater New York. In the video, shot in the emergency operations center at the Red Cross’ Manhattan headquarters, Bischoff urges every family to practice its evacuation plan for whatever [...]

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Peter Gudaitis is the Executive Director of the New York Interfaith Disaster Services(NYDIS). NYDIS is a faith-based federation of service providers and charitable organizations who work in partnership to develop and support faith-based disaster readiness, response, and recovery services for New York City. In addition, NYDIS produce a terrific free biweekly newsletter, NYDISNET, that is a very [...]

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With the Gulf Coast dealing with Hurricane Ike, new personal communications technology tools are being employed by citizens, government officials, the media and the relief agencies, including the Red Cross. In this segment, Wendy Harman, who manages the Red Cross’ burgeoning social media operations — including the Red Cross Hurricane Ike Newsroom – underscores the increasingly vital [...]

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In recognition of National Preparedness Month and in honor of the anniversaries of 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, this blog will be presenting a special series of “What Should We Tell The Public?” videos during September. Beginning today, Thursday, September 11th, and continuing everyday the rest of the month, the blog will feature a short video [...]

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Alan McCurry, an emergency management consultant, is the former Chief Operating Officer of the American Red Cross. In this “What Should We Tell The Public?” segment, McCurry draws from his experience as a U.S. Navy nuclear submariner. He says that the more prepared you are in an emergency the more ready you will be to handle [...]

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Barry Scanlon, President of James Lee Witt Associates (a part of the Global Options Group) is a former official in the Federal Emergency Management Administration. At FEMA, he was responsible for managing the highly regarded Project Impact program which created public/private sector partnerships to prepare communities for disasters.
In this segment, Scanlon makes the important point drawn from [...]

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I am in Washington today and had an opportunity to record a “What Should We Tell The Public?” segment with Wendy Harman, who manages the American Red Cross’ burgeoning social media presence and is a good friend of this blog.
In the first segment, Wendy underscores what an important tool your cell phone or PDA can be in [...]

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