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The National Emergency Management Executive Academy
Second Session: E0684 Integrating Science into Emergency Management Policies and Decisions
Course Overview
E0684 is being offered by the Emergency Management Institute (EMI) in the National Disaster Preparedness Training Center (NDPTC), University of Hawaii. E0684 focuses on risk assessment and risk management across different types of hazards: from geological to severe weather to technological failures to terrorism. It also focuses on resilience through an appreciation of whole community, structural design, and adaptation. Topics include sociological studies, organizational behavior theory and practice, and the use of models and studies in the analysis of complex and cascading disaster environments.
Course Objectives
Upon completion of the E0684 course participants will be able to:
- Use risk analysis and decision trees in decision-making.
- Understand the special requirements of infrequent, cascading, ill-characterized, long-lived and escalating events.
- Recognize ways to improve popular perceptions of risk and influence public behavior during hazard crises.
- Describe how science/technology is communicated and interpreted within the scientific community.
- Describe how emergency management executives can leverage science and technology to prepare for, to prevent, protest against, mitigate, response to, and recover from the threats and hazards that pose the greatest risks.
- Identify, prioritize, engage, and utilize scientific and technology resources to enhance policy and decision making in all key emergency management mission areas.
- Apply scientific and predictive modeling, data collection and analysis techniques, and technology to policy and decision making.
- Tailor science and technology-based messaging to various segments of the Whole Community.
- Interpret and communicate science and technology information in a way that effectively informs and influences senior officials and other decision makers at local, State, Tribal, Federal, and global levels.
Admission Requirement
This course is ONLY open to those who have been formally accepted in the National Emergency Management Executive Academy.
Course Length
4 days
