Collaboration Amid Crisis

Health amid a financial crisis: a complex diagnosis.

Dr Suwit Wibulpolprasert, senior adviser on disease control at Thailand’s Ministry of Public Health, remembers the last time the wheels came off the global economy. “There was less travel and purchase of cars and motorcycles. Sales of alcohol – as well as tobacco – were reduced. These factors resulted in fewer deaths and injuries in road accidents,” he says. Wibulpolprasert’s rather upbeat rema...

Conservation. Averting lemur extinctions amid Madagascar's political crisis.

Collaboration Capabilities for Crisis Management

When a crisis such as 9/11 occurs, it requires coordination and collaboration by a number of government agencies as well as the private sector with tightly choreographed activities from many organizations in multiple locations. Although there are accepted collaboration frameworks for operating in a “command and control” mode, where everyone understands who is in charge and what everyone‟s respo...

Identifying Collaboration Challenges in Crisis Management

Because of the urgency to respond quickly to large-scale aviation catastrophes such as the 9/11 attacks, National Airspace Security collaboration requires tightly-orchestrated activities across a number of organizations in multiple locations. Today this coordination is by voice only, using the conference call known as the Federal Aviation Agency’s Domestic Events Network. Besides a lack of digi...

Hurricane Katrina: African American Children’s Perceptions of Race, Class, and Government Involvement Amid a National Crisis

The devastation associated with Hurricane Katrina raised several issues related to race, class, and the government in the United States. We examined African American children’s (a) knowledge of demographic characteristics of the victims, (b) beliefs about the role of race and class biases in the delayed relief efforts, and (c) views of the role and effectiveness of the government in response to...