We will still provide the best magazine available on the subject of emergency management and will work even harder to make sure that the four print issues are relevant to you and provide information you won’t get elsewhere.
At the same time, you can count on that same kind of excellence at emergencymgmt.com. Our readership on the site has been growing steadily and maintained a record-breaking pace through the end of last year. We will be rewarding those online readers with more in depth features like the ones in the magazine.
So in effect, you will be the getting the same coverage (better, we hope) but some of it will be online instead of in print.
We will stay on top of emergency management issues and themes critical to you. For instance, with the backdrop of the Ebola outbreak, we take a look at the issue of public health trends. What will the next pandemic be and are we ready? Will it be measles or pertussis? Monkeypox? Rift Valley fever? Chikungunya? Dengue or malaria? The flu? Will it be Ebola? See The Next Pandemic.
This article discusses why we are more primed for a pandemic than ever before and how and why it could play out.
There were lessons learned about the communication during the Ebola scare — or were there? Certainly there were lessons about how to communicate the risk of a potentially lethal infection but were they observed or really learned?
Read Risky Communications and learn about some of the missteps that took place during the Ebola scare and how they can be remedied for the next infectious disease threat or pandemic.
With a warming climate, there will be public health consequences. In our feature, The Climate Connection, we uncover some of the hazards that have public health officials concerned about warming, including: increasing deaths and illnesses from heat stress; increasing risk of injuries and illnesses due to extreme weather events, such as storms and floods; more respiratory and cardiovascular illness and deaths caused by smoke from heat-related and drought-related wildfires, as well as changes in air pollution, particularly ozone smog; changes in the rates and ranges of infectious diseases carried by insects or in food and water; and threats to the safety and availability of food and water supplies.
We’ve also included an extra feature in this issue. Fusion Center Model Emerges discusses the evolution of the fusion center into a hub for communication between agencies and jurisdictions as well as with the federal government.
These are the types of in-depth features you can count on for 2015, whether in the print issue of Emergency Management magazine or online at emergencymgmt.com.
