Speaker: Jeff Schlegelmilch

Inviter: Han Ziqiang, Professor and Doctoral Supervisor, School of Political Science and Public Administration, Shandong University

Date: Apr.21, 2021

Time: 7:00p.m.

Location: Zoom Meeting ID:970 7491 7742 Passcode:739010

Abstract:

In this talk, we will review some of the early experiences in response to the epidemic, as well as the impacts and challenges brought by climate change to future disasters and emergency management. In addition, the lecture will also discuss the frontiers and changing trends of emergency management research and practice in this century, especially in response to management and decision-making strategies under highly uncertain situations.

Bio:

Jeff Schlegelmilch, director of the American Disaster Emergency Preparedness Center at Columbia University. His main research areas include children and disasters, public health emergency preparedness, community resilience building, and public-private cooperation in emergency relations. Jeff has extensive experience in emergency management. Before joining Columbia University, he worked at the Boston Public Health Commission and the Yale New Haven Health System Emergency Preparedness and Response Center. He has published a monograph Rethinking Readiness: A brief guide to twenty-first-centurymega disasters, published dozens of influential emergency management research papers, served as the editor-in-chief of journals such as Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, and has been in Hill all year round. The mainstream media conducted column-writing discussions on emergency management issues.

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