On 12th February the World Health Organization held a meeting of the Emergency Committee convened under the International Health Regulations (IHR) (2005) to review the current Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
The UCL’s Mullard Space Laboratory and Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction have released two operational reports that lay out guidelines for assessing and identifying organizational mitigation strategies to help prepare for space weather events, global navigation satellite service failures, and their associated technological disruptions.
The Securities and Exchange Commission Commission's Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE) has issued a report providing observations related to cyber security and operational resiliency practices
A new study estimates that improving the rates of handwashing by people passing through just 10 of the world's leading airports could significantly reduce the spread of many infectious diseases. And the greater the improvement in people's handwashing habits at airports, the more dramatic the effect on slowing the disease, the researchers found.
Penn State researchers have published the findings of research into single-source pollution events which has implications for improving evacuation plans during air contamination incidents.
Following the latest terrorist attack in London, which took place just 15 days after the official UK threat level was lowered, Resilience First is calling on the UK government to review the current threat level framework.
The Global Resilient Cities Network has announced its formation and confirmed that it will continue the work started by the former 100 Resilient Cities organization.
Despite higher levels of investment in advanced cyber security technologies over the past three years, less than one-fifth of organizations are effectively stopping cyber attacks and finding and fixing breaches fast enough to lower the impact, according to a new report from Accenture.
A new report from the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine recommends ways to make supply chains more resilient in the face of hurricanes and other disasters, drawing upon lessons learned from the 2017 hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria.
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