Public Works and Facilities Services are considered part of the official ranks of First Responders by the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s guidelines for disaster workers since 2005.

Over the course of his extensive career in pediatric emergency medicine and critical care, disaster medicine, emergency management, EMS, and public health, Dr. Markenson has become an internationally ...

“The emergency phase of this global crisis that we’ve all been facing for three-and-a-half years is over, but Covid is here to stay,” said Maria Van Kerkhove, WHO’s Covid technical lead.

Once the public health emergency is officially over, the Commonwealth, with a large stockpile of vaccines and tests, will continue to focus its resources on prevention and virus management ...

WHO declared COVID-19 a public health emergency of international concern, or PHEIC, on January 30, 2020. It’s the highest level of alarm under international law.

The letter warns that poor management and eroded capacity at FEMA could undue progress made to improve the agency.

A lmost since the emergence of COVID-19, the U.S. has treated the disease as both a national and public health emergency. That will end on May 11, 2023, the Biden Administration announced Jan. 30.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has downgraded the COVID-19 pandemic status and declared an end to the global public health emergency as mortality rates reached an all-time low.

A former federal emergency management executive will lead Georgetown University’s police and public safety functions in a newly created role, the university announced Aug. 7. Josh Bornstein will ...

The administration also said it would end the COVID-19 national emergency on May 11. The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) argued in a statement that the immediate repeal of the public health ...

Under the public health emergency, beneficiaries enrolled in traditional Medicare and Medicare Advantage could also receive free at-home COVID-19 testing and treatments and pay no cost-sharing.