Building Knowledge

This document summarizes the legal code 5197h which promotes emergency preparedness research and training for minority communities and provides guidelines as to how funding should be allocated.

This data source provides data on indicators relevant to emergency preparedness such as demographics, Language spoken at home, English proficiency, country of origin, years living in U.S., housing status, and transportation.

The American Community Survey provides information on demographics, housing, language, socioeconomic, and transportation, for single, three, adn five-year averages.

The American Housing Survey collects information on housing, apartments, single-family homes, mobile homes, vacant housing units, household characteristics, income, housing and neighborhood quality, housing costs, equipment and fuels, size of housing unit, and recent movers.

This data set provides information on healthcare resources such as hospitals and community health centers by geographic region. Purchase is required to access the data set.

This interactive tool provides information on the growth and socioeconomic characteristics of 21 Asian American and Pacific Islanders sub-groups, as well as for other major racial/ethnic groups.

This article examines the collaboration, methodology, results, and lessons learned stemming from the experience of a unique university, state, and tribal collaborative model for public health emergency preparedness assessment activities.

This data source provides information on health behaviors, access to care, and disease prevalence in the adult population.

Boat People SOS (BPSOS) is a private sector organization devoted to empowering Vietnamese communities through topic specific programs including disaster relief and recovery.  

This handout provides information on how to build an emergency preparedness kit for emergencies in multiple languages.

This report presents the findings from a statewide assessment of emergency preparedness programs and initiatives for racially and ethnically diverse communities in California.

CDC SNAPS has pooled various data sources to develop national, state, and county profiles consisting of indicators relevant to emergency preparedness.

This resource guide provides information to residents of San Francisco's Chinatown on disaster preparedness and response.

The CCD's Build A Table Tool allows users to view data on school enrollment at various levels, from national to school specific, and can be viewed by race/ethnicity, sex, and grade level.

Using the case of Hurricane Katrina to illustrate the collapse of the standard model of emergency management without a clear focus on the role of cognition, the authors reframe the concept of intergovernmental crisis management as a complex, adaptive system.

This presentation outlines individual and organizational-level challenges relating to culture, language, and trust that contribute to racial/ethnic disparities in disaster and public health emergency outcomes. It also discusses recommendations from the National Consensus Panel on Emergency Preparedness and Cultural Diversity. The presentation was presented at the New York Citizen Corps Disaster Volunteer Conference in May of 2011.

This set of online courses provides guidance for emergency personal responding to the needs of diverse communities following a disaster. 

This matrix presents in depth results of a pilot study conducted by the Northwest Oregon Health Preparedness Organization

This commentary highlights what needs to be done to eliminate potential injustices towards disadvantaged populations during an influenza pandemic.

This report summarizes key findings from two community focus groups and three key informant interviews conducted by the Urban Indian Health Institute on H1N1.

This book chapter focuses on the concepts and skills of health-related counseling needed to provide effective, culturally competent, family health counseling in disasters and reimbursement with families of diverse cultures.

This article describes FEMA’s Black Leadership Summit which took place in Washington, DC in May of 2010.

This national profile provides tables on employment and unemployment statistics at various geographic levels, as well as by race/ethnicity, sex, and occupation.

This flyer provides information on how to prevent the spread of colds and the flu, and is geared towards children. This resource is available in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Vietnamese, Hmong, Chinese, Khmer, and Laotian.