A new research project aims to tackle problems and improve natural disaster emergency preparedness and response in countries badly affected by earthquakes, flooding, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis.

A new Global Health Security Index suggests that not a single country in the world is fully prepared to handle an epidemic or pandemic.

The Economic Development Administration (EDA), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet Authority) announced the Accelerate R2 Network Challenge, an interagency challenge focused on accelerating innovations for disaster response and resilience technology. 

The Pentagon will test mass surveillance tests across six Midwest states using high-altitude balloons.

The Pepperdine School of Public Policy will form an academic enterprise with the Los Angeles Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC) focused on disaster preparedness, crisis management, and resiliency through engaging the public, private, and civic sectors.

Nine in 10 emergency physicians responding to a new poll say that in the past month, they have experienced shortages or absences of critical medicines in their emergency departments.

A report from Princeton Survey Research Associates International shows that two thirds of U.S. adults feel they would be prepared if an emergency or disaster struck their community today, including 20 percent who say they would be very prepared.

Federal regulators have cleared three of the nation’s largest property insurers to use unmanned aircraft to inspect ofrom hail-damaged roofs to collapsed buildings to flooded neighborhoods.

The House of Representatives voted to pass legislation requiring DHS to form a social media working group that would provide guidance and preparedness for social media use during times of national crisis.

Washington state has flunked its disaster preparedness test. According to the American College of Emergency Physicians’ State-by-State Report Card, Washington state received an overall grade of “D+” and an “F” in disaster preparedness.