Resilience News

GRI Distinguished Senior Fellow, Marcella Nunez Smith, was named one of three Co-Chairs to President-Elect Joe Biden’s Coronavirus task force today. Dr. Nunez Smith is currently working with the GRI team as an advisor on a federally funded project to ensure that stakeholder engagement is diverse in makeup and representation so that resilience issues are looked at with equity and inclusion.

The COVID-19 global pandemic has exacerbated the move toward greater economic nationalism and isolationism across the world. As nations have independently constructed responses to the pandemic with vastly dissimilar success levels, the repercussions for international businesses and national economies has been intense. We posit that addressing a global disruption, such as this pandemic that cannot be contained effectively by borders, requires a global response - not a national nor a local response.

"People with strong social networks experience faster recoveries and have access to needed information, tools, and assistance. Communities and neighbourhoods…

As I’m writing this, we’re at the end of our election cycle in the US. For months, we’ve been bombarded…

As he recovered from COVID-19, President Trump tweeted out to Americans “Don’t let it dominate you.” For him — and too many other…

John Wihbey, assistant professor of journalism and media innovation at Northeastern, says Cohen has created his own category. “It’s tough…

As coronavirus cases continue to spike across Massachusetts and the country, it raises an important question -- are we going…

Three years after the fall of Islamic State's self-declared caliphate in Syria and Iraq, the terrorist group is making a…

Alicia Sasser Modestino, an associate professor of public policy at Northeastern University, said a temporary extension of the eviction moratorium…

The Global Resilience Institute (“GRI”) at Northeastern University has released 10 Sector-Specific Special Investigation Reports as part of an effort supported by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (“FEMA”) to provide regional recommendations for COVID-19 economic recovery in New England.

This is an updating of an old post.  The original did not have any specific examples; I think Covid-19 provides a good one.  I’m sure the concept “Disasters Have Direction” is obvious to many of you, but I’ve never seen it articulated.  As I try to show in the discussion of the pandemic, it can be a useful construct as we think about a community’s resilience.

He survived Hurricane Katrina and the hurdles and challenges he faced are the reasons he's in his current line of…