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Cultivating the Magic Sauce for Surviving Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest
Survival rates for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest vary significantly by location, highlighting the need to identify and disseminate best practices from high-performing communities. What are the key factors that improve survival?
Aug 27, 2024

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Realizing the Power of Community in Disaster Recovery
Communities—not governments—are often the primary agents driving disaster recovery. Understanding their needs, improving resource allocation, and measuring results can better leverage the community's power and promote successful disaster management preparation, responses, and outcomes.
Aug 23, 2024
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Community-Driven Recovery: The Lahaina Wildfires a Year Later
Lahaina can benefit tremendously from a community-driven approach to identifying recovery needs. This involves working closely with survivors themselves to understand their housing, health, economic, social, and other needs.
Aug 16, 2024
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Building Flood Resilience: A Grand Challenge for U.S. Water Policy
Flooding has become the most expensive and frequent disaster in the United States. Since 2000, flooding events occur almost daily, and the cost of inland flooding alone in 2023 was nearly $200 billion. Managing flood risk requires transformations in land use, regulation, insurance, and financing.
Aug 9, 2024
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Black Americans Aren't Buying Election-Year Falsehoods. Here's Why.
In 2020, fewer Black Americans believed the false claims of widespread election and voter fraud than their white counterparts did. What lessons can be learned from Black Americans' resilience to disinformation?
Jul 25, 2024
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Should the UK Bring Back National Service? Considerations and Lessons from International Research
In the absence of fully fledged national service, the United Kingdom should consider alternative avenues for strengthening societal links with the armed forces, contributing to societal resilience, and encouraging engagement in national security and defence.
Jun 28, 2024
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Trucks, Piers, and Parachutes Will Not Solve Gaza's Crisis
If the international community wants to solve the humanitarian problem in Gaza, it will need to go beyond thinking strictly in terms of trucks, roads, and floating piers. It will instead need to choose between a series of bad options. None are particularly appealing outcomes, but in the Middle East, nothing is ever simple.
Mar 25, 2024
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A Foreign Government, Oprah, and Fires in Maui: The Impact of Misinformation on Community Resiliency
Crises and disasters are opportunities to undermine the national unity that forms in response to tragedy: U.S. adversaries may gain an advantage when there is discord among the American public. But even if information operations are cheap for foreign governments to execute, they also can be simple to counteract effectively through routine emergency management preparedness activities.
Feb 23, 2024
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Place Matters: Navigating Heart Health Through Place-Based Policy
Unequal allocation of neighborhood resources has been linked to cardiovascular outcomes. Consequently, neighborhood influences on cardiovascular health are multilevel and nuanced. This makes it hard for researchers and practitioners to find ways to modify neighborhoods to support health.
Dec 14, 2023
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Why Are U.S. Military Families Experiencing Food Insecurity?
Around a quarter of active-duty service members qualify as “food insecure.” But what's causing that, how to fix it—even what it means—is not clear. Food insecurity is a multifaceted problem that needs multifaceted solutions.
Nov 6, 2023
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It's Time to Take Societal Resilience Seriously
To build the societal resilience required to respond effectively to everything from climate-related emergencies to pandemics, to intentional state-on-state attacks, and disinformation, a joint approach is needed, not only across government, but across wider society.
Sep 15, 2023
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Much of the Damage in Maui Will Be Invisible, but Very Real
In addition to decimating buildings and other infrastructure, disasters also destroy human capital, the collective knowledge and skills that drive individual economic earnings, as well as regional economic growth. Failing to address these more-hidden damages is incredibly costly.
Aug 21, 2023
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Climate Security Is National Security
Mitigating the effects of climate change will require a whole-of-government approach and a redefinition of national security to embrace a more panoramic set of risks. Government officials are saying lots of the right things. But is it being done, and done quickly enough?
Jun 30, 2023
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Mental Health First Aid: Training People to Help Others
An innovative program trains and empowers people to not look away from those experiencing mental illness, but to listen to them, reassure them, and encourage them to get help. Most trainees of the program in New York City were still using what they had learned five years later.
May 3, 2023
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An Early Warning System for Landslides Protects Sitka, Alaska
A 2015 landslide that killed three people in Sitka, Alaska, changed how residents looked at the steep hills all around them. The community worked with researchers to develop a warning system to prevent such tragedies in the future.
Mar 14, 2023
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Remembering Slain LA Bishop David O'Connell and His Tireless Community Work
Bishop Dave left a mark on so many lives, and, even after becoming bishop, remained close to the community he so loved. The world has lost a fearless and compassionate leader.
Mar 3, 2023

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