A5013798573- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Risk Perception and Management
- Disaster Response and Management
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Public Health Policies and Education
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Health Policy Implementation Science
- Forest Insect Ecology and Management
- Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
- Forest Management and Policy
- Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights
- Public Relations and Crisis Communication
- Mentoring and Academic Development
- Community Health and Development
- Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Skills
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Peacebuilding and International Security
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Fire dynamics and safety research
- Facility Location and Emergency Management
- Gender, Security, and Conflict
University of Washington
2021-2024
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
2024
Theodore Roosevelt High School
2024
Seattle University
2023
Association of State and Territorial Health Officials
2022
Hess (United States)
2022
NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research
2022
Texas Tech University
2022
University of Florida
2022
Dolan Park Hospital
2022
Too often groups deemed as 'vulnerable' are homogenized in terms of their characteristics and experiences leading up to, during after disaster. Although important exceptions exist, the identities members marginalized such homeless populations frequently practice without regard for intersecting traits contextual factors that result unequal disaster environmental outcomes. This paper explores utility an intersectional approach to analyze complexity lived within communities I use qualitative...
While the last two decades have seen important theoretical, empirical, and policy advancements in environmental justice generally, much remains to be done regarding Native Americans. Unique political cultural dynamics shape study pursuit of (EJ) American communities. This review summarizes EJ issues based on a cross-disciplinary search over 60 publications. In so doing, we discuss unique nature terms conducting research working toward reducing continuation historical trauma associated with...
The exceptional production of research evidence during the COVID-19 pandemic required deployment scientists to act in advisory roles aid policy-makers making evidence-informed decisions. unprecedented breadth, scale and duration provides an opportunity understand how science advisors experience mitigate challenges associated with insufficient, evolving and/or conflicting inform public health decision-making.
People experiencing homeless have greater vulnerabilities in relation to climate change that require a range of policy and systems approaches. There are two interrelated areas policymakers can consider homelessness: migration exposure. This synthesis the available data expert opinion provides practical information policymakers, with specific strategies alongside case examples. The captured here is through systematic reviews, generated input from year-long series five virtual think tanks....
Abstract Background As the health implications of climate change become more apparent, agencies and institutions across United States are developing recommendations for state territorial (S/THAs) to implement evidence-informed adaptation strategies. The CDC established Building Resilience Against Climate Effects (BRACE) framework in 2010 encourage local public engagement adaptation. However, even after a decade BRACE initiative, elements that affect adoption implementation programming by...
Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (VOADs) depend on interorganizational networks to rapidly deliver services communities during times of crisis. These allow VOAD members share resources before, during, and after disasters. A growing body empirical research indicates that routine, pre-disaster interactions exchanges between organizations predict coordination collaboration Rarely, however, do systematically assess such routine exchanges. This study seeks fill this gap by presenting a...
On January 15, 2022, the Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha'apai (Tonga) volcano erupted and triggered a tsunami forecasted to reach North America. This event provided unique opportunity investigate risk perception communication among coastal emergency managers program coordinators (EMs). In response, this research explores 1) how can be communicated most effectively 2) perceptions associated with "distant" alerts warnings affect EMs' willingness issue alerts. A purposive sample of EMs (n=21) in U.S....
Placed-based socio-economic and biophysical context has been viewed as an essential driver in shaping perceptions of forest risks land management. Growing evidence the importance diverse community forested landscapes sets stage to further consider how people's understandings their local environment influence natural resource management preferences. However, research date largely lacks considerations informs social responses long-term environmental change over time. Using mountain pine beetle...
U.S. wildfire activity has increased over the past several decades, disrupting systems and infrastructure that support community health resilience. As cumulative burden of damage is projected to increase, understanding an effective recovery process critically important. Through qualitative interviews with leaders long-term organizations (LTROs), a key component recovery, we explored barriers facilitators LTROs' ability post-wildfire needs among rural communities. Between February-May 2022,...
To characterize US State and Territorial Health Agencies' (S/THA) climate change adaptation activities priorities to facilitate appropriate investments, skills development, support that will strengthen health sector capacity in response a changing climate.In 2021, we conducted an online survey of S/THA staff requesting information on current related health, the state programming, anticipated needs for assistance. We analyzed results using descriptive statistics.US Agencies.We received...
Abstract Forest disturbances caused by insects, pathogens, and fire continue to increasingly occur within forests across the United States around world. Given dynamic nature of these forest role played local residents in risk management, it is valuable explore how human experience, attitudes, behaviors associated with ecological processes may evolve over time. In this paper, we assess temporal changes residents’ perceptions actions response mountain pine beetle outbreak that affected large...
Abstract The weather community has a keen interest in whether or not people comply with tornado warnings by taking shelter when threatens. When do seek shelter, commonly attributed reason is that they are complacent due to overwarning, false alarms, routine exposure and experience tornadoes warnings, time between damaging events. Yet, there lack of research focuses on actually complacent, i.e., ignore unwilling prepare for the threat. We explore exhibit these indicators complacency examining...
Vulnerability is not only a shared basic condition, but also condition of potential. In the context disasters and crises, concept vulnerability frequently used to portray individuals groups as 'weak', 'threatened', 'in need help'. Occasionally, though, shift occurs 'threatened'-and therefore usually pitied-become those who are feared hated, that is, they become 'threat'. This paper explores how apparently incompatible discursive regimes 'threatened' 'threat' intertwine, merge, feed upon each...
Longitudinal studies of risk perception, while growing, remain an understudied area analysis research. Natural resource-based communities provide a key backdrop for analyzing dynamic perceptions and related social-ecological processes. Since the mid-1990s, mountain pine beetle (MPB) outbreak has affected roughly 3.4 million acres north central Colorado forests. Slow-moving landscape changes have taken place as result outbreak, making it relevant case study in which to examine wildfire forest...
Abstract As tropical cyclone threats evolve, broadcast meteorologists and emergency managers rely on timely forecast information to help them communicate risk with the public protect safety. This study aims improve usability applicability of National Weather Service (NWS) in context these NWS core partners’ decisions during threats. The research collected analyzed data from in-depth interviews three coastal U.S. states. These were used analyze meteorologists’ managers’ decision action...
As the Duwamish Valley community in Seattle, Washington, U.S.A. and other environmental justice communities nationally contend with growing risks from climate change, there have been calls for a more community-centered approach to understanding impacts priorities inform resilience planning. To engage members identify priorities, partnership of leaders, government-based practitioners, academics co-produced survey instrument collected data using Seattle Assessment Public Health Emergency...
Renters living in subsidized housing managed by Public Housing Authorities (PHAs) are vulnerable to disasters. This study aims describe barriers, facilitators, and opportunities for the implementation of disaster risk management (DRM) strategies at PHAs. Fifteen semi-structured key informant (KI) interviews with federal state officials, PHA leaders, non-profit staff were conducted thematically analyzed. Interviewees mentioned financial administrative hindrances, lack policy, training among...