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On-Scene

July 29, 2015
Featured in this issue: Response Management: Back to Basics, By Stephen Grainer; No Defensive Strategy to Address a Growing Terrorist Threat, By Richard Schoeberl; Superheroes in Waiting: Emergent First Responders, By Wayne P. Bergeron; What It Takes to Be a Public Health Emergency Preparedness Professional, By Raphael M. Barishansky; Dangerous

Lessons

June 24, 2015
Featured in this issue: Riots When Civil Rights Protests Lose Civility, By Robert Maloney; Baltimore Unrest Police Lessons Learned on the Fly, By Melissa Hyatt; How to Change Response Tactics in Times of Civil Unrest, By Michael E. Cox Jr.; Serving the Underserved No Matter What, By Jayna Powell; Civil

COMMUNICATION

May 27, 2015
Featured in this issue: What the Future Holds for Communications Interoperability, By Steve Cohan; How to Deploy an Ethical Cybercommunications Program, By Anyck Turgeon; Critical Elements for Creating a Dialogue, By Charles Werner; Football, Golf & an Integrated Public Safety Information Network, By Janusz Wasiolek; InfraGard Over 400 Sector

Collaboration

April 29, 2015
Featured in this issue: Making Collaboration Work Enablers & Barriers, By Bruce Martin; Collaborations Real-World Challenges, By Sarah Tidman; The Public Health Response Solution (or at Least a Bridge), By Greg Burel; The Evolution of Planning for Animals in Disasters, By Elizabeth Serca-Dominguez & Richard Green; Prepare Them While

Training Challenge

March 30, 2015
Featured in this issue: Training Challenge – Choosing the Best Learning Approach, By Glen Rudner; Learning How to Provide Tactical Medical Support Under Fire, By Philip J. Beck; Financial Planning for the Next Ebola Threat, By Chris N. Mangal; Cadet Programs – Mending Police-Community Relations, By Samuel Johnson; Hospital Threats

EDUCATION

February 25, 2015
Featured in this issue: Exploring an Online Educational Journey, By Kevin Kupietz; How to Make a “Smart” Phone “Undumb” in a Disaster, By Anjila Lebsock; A Global Student Council & a New Higher Education Database, By Matthew P. Ellis; Internships in Emergency Management: Good for All, By Wayne P. Bergeron;

PLANNING

January 28, 2015
Featured in this issue: Ebola – Another Opportunity to Plan & Prepare, By Robert C. Hutchinson; Emergency Operations Center Activation & the Active Shooter Scenario, By Dave Points; FEMAs New Planning Doctrine, By Jordan Nelms; Evolving Role of Healthcare Coalitions, By Jessica Brown; Planning: A Continuing Challenge, By Sarah Tidman;

BIG IDEAS

December 24, 2014
Featured in this issue: Body-Worn Cameras: The Path Forward, By James Coldren Jr. & Denise Rodriguez King; The Future of Handheld Chemical Detection & Identification, By Chris Petty; Emerging Infectious Diseases – A Whole-Community Approach, By Anthony S. Mangeri; Texas – Youth Volunteers in the Medical Reserve Corps, By Lunetta

BLACKOUT

November 26, 2014
Featured in this issue: Electromagnetic Pulses – Six Common Misconceptions, By George H. Baker; Em-Powering Communities to Prepare, By Catherine Feinman; Maine – A Journey Through State Grid-Protective Legislation & the Threat of Regulatory Capture, By Andrea Boland; Challenge: Defeat Ballistic Missile Attacks From the South, By Henry (Hank) F.

Baltimore’s Blueprint

October 29, 2014
Featured in this issue: The Professional Emergency Manager, By Daryl Lee Spiewak, A Training Partnership That Began With a Grant, By University of Maryland Center for Health and Homeland Security, Behind-the-Scenes in Baltimore, Maryland, by Catherine Feinman, Natural Disasters: View From the Northeast, Podcast, and Multidiscipline Training, Podcast

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January 31, 2024
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January 24, 2024
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January 17, 2024
Full Article By Michael Prasad, An Article Out Loud from Domestic Preparedness, January 17, 2024. To meet a community’s mass care family reunification needs after a disaster, hospitals and other healthcare facilities must have plans and procedures in place for mass casualty incident response, which goes beyond patient care. Here

Article Out Loud – Multimodal Transportation Perspectives

January 17, 2024
Full Article By Nathan DiPillo and Derek Kantar, An Article Out Loud from Domestic Preparedness, January 17, 2024.Without transportation and communications, emergency response can move at an uncomfortably slow pace, enough so that life, property, and the environment may be unnecessarily compromised. The integrated transportation network must be protected from
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Domestic Preparedness

2883 Highway 71E

P.O. Box 285

Del Valle, TX 78617-9998

Editorial Statement

Founded in 1998, Domestic Preparedness continues to be a pioneering thought leader in the emergency preparedness, response, and recovery space. The multidisciplinary editorial focus helps professionals acquire critical information to develop collaborative, real-world solutions. With relevant, multidisciplinary, whole-community intelligence from the front lines, practitioners can learn from diverse perspectives. The authoritative, practitioner-centered, multimedia information platform disseminates intelligence the way busy management-level public- and private-sector professionals want to learn. This is the trusted source for content written by practitioners, for practitioners, with relevant, real-world best practices.

DomesticPreparedness.com, the Domestic Preparedness Journal and the Weekly Brief include facts, views, opinions, and recommendations of individuals and organizations deemed of interest. The Texas Division of Emergency Management and the Texas A&M University System do not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, or timeliness of, or otherwise endorse, these views, facts, opinions or recommendations.
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