During the Fall 2021 semester, NYU students from Dr. Gershon’s Management of Public Health Disasters course developed plans that were disaster-specific and agency-specific. The students worked in teams of 2 or 3 students and developed 11 plans including:
- Flooding in Coastal Zones of Washington,
- Oceanview Nursing & Rehabilitation Center Disaster Plan,
- Bahamas Hurricane Disaster Plan,
- Bangladesh Coastal Regions Flood Management Initiative,
- Zoonotic Spillover Response Plan,
- Influenza Virus Outbreak and Response Plan,
- New York City Evacuation of Basement Apartments Emergency Response for Major Flooding,
- Emergency Alert and Evacuation Plan for US Communities near Nuclear Power Plants,
- 2021 Wildfire Emergency Operations Plan for Lake Tahoe
Although plans are “best practices hypothetical”, they can provide invaluable resources to various agencies and organizations for emergency planning.