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2. Emergency management - Wikipedia

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   A mobile emergency operations center, in this case operated by the Air National Guard. Emergency management or disaster management is a science and a system charged with creating the framework within which communities reduce vulnerability to hazards and cope with disasters. [1] Emergency management, despite its name, does not actually focus on ...

3. Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response ...

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   The Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response ( ASPR) is an operating agency of the U.S. Public Health Service within the Department of Health and Human Services that focuses preventing, preparing for, and responding to the adverse health effects of public health emergencies and disasters. Its functions include preparedness ...

4. Federal Emergency Management Agency - Wikipedia

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   The Federal Emergency Management Agency ( FEMA) is an agency of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS), initially created under President Jimmy Carter by Presidential Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1978 and implemented by two Executive Orders on April 1, 1979. [1] The agency's primary purpose is to coordinate the response to a ...

5. Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority

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   The Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority ( HERA) is a directorate-general [1] of the European Commission created to prepare the EU for a future pandemic and to avoid the mistakes made during the EU's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. [2] [3] [4] European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen first announced plans for such a ...

6. Disaster response - Wikipedia

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   Also, the Emergency Preparedness and Response Program of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health develops resources to address responder safety and health during responder and recovery operations. Among volunteers, the American Red Cross is chartered by Congress in 1900 to lead and coordinate non-profit efforts.

7. Public health emergency (United States) - Wikipedia

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   In the United States, a public health emergency declaration releases resources meant to handle an actual or potential public health crisis. Recent examples include: Incidents of flooding. Severe weather [1] the 2009 swine flu pandemic, which Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano described as a "declaration of emergency preparedness." [2]