During the interview/podcast, I raised the issue of how emergency managers don’t have the time, or don’t take the time, to look at social science research to better design their various programs.
To address this issue, the Center has set up the Research Counts portion of its website where the application of research is summarized for practitioners. I encourage you to check it out.
And, on another section of the home page of the Center, I saw this item: “Mitigation Messaging and Planning Research From the Mitigation Matters Award Program.” Who of us doesn’t want to get better at messaging when it comes to the topic of disaster mitigation?
We might just become a bit more effective if we started learning more about what works and what doesn’t work based on research.
