2012 Partners in Emergency Preparedness Conference Presentations
- John Cornelison
- May 17, 2012
Table of Contents
The Partners in Emergency Preparedness Conference is an annual meeting held in Tacoma that is an excellent way to network with others in the disaster preparedness field – and get an excellent overview of the state of the art. Though a good deal, it doesn’t always fit folks schedules and may be too big a time and financial commitment for others. Fortunately, they make many of the presentations available after the conference. Here they are:
Visit www.cm.wsu.edu/ehome/piepc/68406 for live links to the following presentations:
- Keynote: Dr. Grady Bray
- Changes in the National Incident Management System and how it will affect Federal, State and Local operations.
- Lessons from Earthquakes of 2008 – 2011
- Overcoming barriers: The role of gender in disasters
- Planning for Medical Surge: A Step-by-Step Approach for Tangible Public Health Preparedness
- Bruce Binder, Obrien
- Managing COOP in Disaster ; The COOP Coordination Group
- Mitigating, Preventing, Responding, and Recovering from Active Shooters Incidents
- Dealing with Difficult People - during disasters
- Kick Starting a Business Continuity Program
- Get out of Town: Evacuation and Sheltering in a Catastrophic Incident
- How Do Assumptions Affect Your Flood Losses and Economy?
- The Importance of Cultural Competency in Emergency Management
- Leveraging Money for Recovery - the role of the Emergency Manager in a complex economic world
- State and Local Governments' Legal Authorities During Emergencies and "Home Rule" Misconceptions\
- Mass Fatality Planning for Cities and Counties: Working Together to Prepare for the Worst
- Partners in Weather Preparedness - Basic
- Panel Discussion: The American Red Cross Responding to Disasters
- Mississippi Flooding: ESF6 Lessons Learned
- Effective Evacuation Coordination in Disasters
- Observations from the 2011 Christchurch NZ and 2011 Great East Japan (Tohoku) Earthquakes Implications for the Pacific Northwest
- Safety Preplanning and Strategy for Large Incident Responses
- Emergency Radio Communications Made Simple
- Partners in Weather Preparedness; Advanced
- Developing a Regional Pediatric Disaster Response Plan
- What your mama didn't tell you about flood recovery?
- Disaster Preparedness on a Limited Budget
- Crisis and Sleep Deprivation - The Road to Weirdness
- A Case Study of legal issues involving emergency management and emergency services
- Protecting Organizations from Cyber Attack
- Panel - Migrant Ships: A Multi-Jurisdiction Approach to Planning and Response
- Family Assistance Center Planning for Mass Fatality Incidents
- Magnitude 9 Paradigm Shift
- Practical Disaster Sheltering: Strategies and Tactics for Success
- Cascadia, View from a Volcano
- Long Term Disaster Recovery
- Washington State Department of Health Response to the Fukushima Nuclear Reactor
- Radiological Emergency Preparedness "A Study of Federal, State and Local Preparedness for events at Nuclear Power Plants"
- Emergency Alert System changes in Washington State
- Rapid Responder: New Incident Command Tools
- Social Media and Disaster Management Right Tool...Right Time...Right Place
- Whole Community; as a Framework to Identify and Address Gaps in Vulnerable Populations Planning
- Teachers: Forgotten Resource in School Disaster Preparedness
- Disaster Pet Sheltering planning and Lessons Learned
- Patient Movement: A Different Kind of Evacuation
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