Epidemiology & Public Health

Track 10: Emergency Management

Emergency management is the organization and administration of the resources and duties for dealing with all humanitarian characteristics of emergencies (preparedness, response, mitigation, and recovery). The goal is to diminish the harmful effects of all hazards, including disasters.

The World Health Organization outlines an emergency as the state in which usual procedures are interrupted, and instant measures (management) need to be taken to prevent it from becoming a disaster, which is even harder to recover from. This comprises the congregation, management, and analysis of big data for the purpose of integrating a data-driven tactic into each segment of the emergency management cycle