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GRI Researcher Blog: Higher Education as Critical Infrastructure

“As economic anchors and vehicles for social mobility, institutions of higher education should be acknowledged as critical infrastructure.”

President Biden recently announced a $2 trillion plan to develop the nation’s infrastructure. In the latest blog post from GRI, Operational Support Analyst Saadia Ali identifies the relationship between infrastructure and education, and examines the vital role of higher education in long-term economic recovery.

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UPCOMING EVENT

NU@Noon: Ethics and the Global Refugee Crisis

GRI Faculty Affiliate Serena Parekh Associate Professor of Philosophy, Director of Politics, Philosophy and Economics Program will show the importance of understanding there is not one but two global refugee crises. Dr. Parekh will discuss why we should understand the global refugee crisis as a structural injustice and why this gives rise to a responsibility to address the crisis for refugees.

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Upcoming Event

BARI Conference 2021: Building Back Smarter

As we build back from a crippling pandemic and grapple with revelations of racial injustice and inequities, The Boston Area Research Initiative (BARI) wants to highlight efforts where data and technology are catalyzing our recovery as we look toward the future. GRI Faculty Affiliate Daniel T. O’Brien will be moderating the panel, ‘BARI’s 10th Anniversary: Looking Back and Forward.’

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Global Resilience Solutions

Discover GRI's research-driven efforts to build resilience in communities and organizations across the globe.

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Integrated Resilience Enhancement Solution

The Integrated Resilience Enhancement Solution (I-RES) is a research-based methodology and set of supporting processes, tools, and related services designed to analyze vulnerabilities to stress and disruption, identify and prioritize effective multi-dimensional resilience enhancing initiatives, and support the effective realization, funding, and performance validation of those initiatives. Learn More

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Cyber Resilience

The Global Resilience Institute (GRI) is at the forefront of developing the concept of Cyber Resilience and applying the relevant principles in the real world. Our mission includes developing and integrating leading innovations and best practices to create practical and affordable cyber security solutions for enterprises and government. Learn More

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Enterprise Continuity and Recovery Solutions

GRI works with organizations of all types to define, refine, and test comprehensive all-hazard Enterprise Continuity and Recovery Plans that minimize impact of disruption and speed up time to operational recovery. Additionally, GRI offers comprehensive Post-Incident Assessment to support building back “better and stronger.”Learn More

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Executive Education & Training

GRI offers customized executive, management, and staff level resilience training to companies, non-profit organizations, and public-sector entities. The result is a workforce that is empowered to understand, prioritize, and apply best resilience principles and solutions for managing multi-dimensional risks. Learn More

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Vetted Technology Resilience

GRI identifies, assesses, and advises on resilience-supporting technology solutions of all types. These solutions encompass decision-support and communication tools tailored for mitigating and managing hazards, as well as state-of-the-art analysis tools based on new approaches in artificial intelligence, and data and network science. Learn More

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Critical Infrastructure Resilience

GRI has a deep understanding of how infrastructure systems provide critical functions to communities and enterprises, and how cascading failures of these systems caused by disasters can threaten communities and societies. We leverage our extensive experience leading efforts to investigate these disasters for lessons that support communities in preparing for these events. Learn More

Post-Disaster Assessment and Advisory

GRI maintains an extensive network comprised of experts with deep operational experience in disaster response. When disaster strikes, we have a unique capability to tap into this network to assemble and deploy a select group of experts to serve as an operational assessment and advisory team to help communities recover and build back better and stronger. Learn More

Supply Chain, Transportation & Distribution System Resilience

GRI brings deep expertise to the business-critical nexus of Supply Chain, Transportation, and Distribution System security and resilience. We provide comprehensive resilience analyses and best practices and innovations from across the world to bear on design and operation of these critical systems. Learn More

Programs

Global Resilience Research Network

Launched in 2018, GRRN is a membership network of leading universities, institutes, non-profit organizations, and companies engaged in resilience research that informs the development of novel tools and applications.

Seed Grant program

GRI and Northeastern University are pioneering resilience-related initiatives that contribute to our primary focus areas.

Corporate Partnerships

GRI seeks private-sector collaborators who share the same commitment to advancing resilience best practices around the world by developing and deploying new tools, applications, and solutions.

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