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New NASA Technology Aims to Increase Disaster Preparedness and Response

NASA satellite.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is working to empower disaster risk reduction by employing technology that detects potential weather disasters, analyzes them, and informs communities and governments. The advancement made by the NASA Disasters Program will allow for more informed decision-making for disaster preparedness while illustrating patterns in disasters and how communities prepare for them. The NASA Disasters Program aims to support governments and policymakers, ensuring the safety of individuals during times of vulnerability.

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Recent Report Finds ICE Detainees Suffer Preventable Deaths

ICE Contract Detention Facility in San Diego.

A recent study found critical issues within the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facilities, particularly focusing on the inadequate medical care provided to detainees. The research references a report written by three advocacy groups, the American Civil Liberties Union, American Oversight, and Physicians for Human Rights, which highlights numerous systemic failures. 

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Urban Transit Workers Face Ongoing Violence, Research Aims to Manage Stress

MTA worker cleaning a subway car.

New York City transit workers are often put in stressful and unpredictable environments as they maintain one of the largest metropolitan transit systems in the world. The daily stressors of the job have recently come to light as academics highlighted the ongoing violent attacks against bus drivers, subway operators, and station agents. New York University researchers Drs. Robyn Gershon and Alexis Merdjanoff are studying the recent uptick in crime against transit workers, aiming to develop ways to improve mental health for transit workers amidst the growing concern.

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Improving Consistency in Health System Resilience Research

Covid-19 patient taken to covid hospital isolation by medical staff and care taker (family member)

The concept of health system resilience is one that evokes images of communities and healthcare infrastructures and systems weathering a devastating event and working together to rebuild and emerge stronger. This idea is beginning to gain attention, as the subject of empirical studies more recently but has mostly been explored only conceptually in the past.

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