Community Resilience

Our vision is to provide and enhance knowledge and training that promotes better preparedness of disasters. The ultimate goal is the minimize loss of life and property. Nevertheless, the knowledge and training will help communities bounce back when disaster do strike.

Our mission is to provide contemporary emergency/disaster management and preparedness education and training to communities; to mitigate loss through effective preparedness and response, recovery, and resilience. In addition, our mission is building a pipeline that educates and professionally develops the next generation of Emergency Management and Disaster Preparedness and Response professionals from multi-disciplinary disciplines.

The solution is to provide community training and outreach (targeting the underserved communities and vulnerable populations).

Our Inter-disciplinary approach includes:

• Industrial Systems & Technology (Technology)
  • Emergency/Disaster Management
  • Implementation of modern technologies
• Meteorology and Atmospheric Science
  • Weather Events
  • Weather Awareness and Preparedness

• Journalism and Media Studies
  • Early warnings and notifications through multimedia
  • Proper media community messaging
• Computer Science
  • Cyber security and continuity regarding weather related disaster
  • Emergency notification platforms
• Health Policy and Management