Public Health Preparedness Modeling

My assistant Peyman Karimian found a comprehensive review of building evacuation models done by NIST in 2005. The report is Technical Note 1471, by Erica D. Kuligowski and Richard D. Peacock. The report describes 30 computer models, including 13 that (at that time) were available to the public. It includes tables with [...]

[Read more]

The featured speaker at the meeting in San Diego is Amanda Ripley, who has been studying how people think and react in a disaster. She has written a book The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes about this topic. Her article in Time, How to Escape Down an Airplane Slide — and Still [...]

[Read more]