Save the date. Join us at the Turkish Philanthropy Innovation & Social Impact Summit in New York on April 23, 2024. Panelists, including Jeff Schlegelmilch, Ulku Rowe, Can Comertoglu, Tammy Glazer, & Ayşe Hortaçsu will discuss Disaster Resilience through Innovation. eventcreate.com/e/tpfesisummit

“Community groups are really important conveners and portals,” said Jeff Schlegelmilch of Columbia's National Center for Disaster Preparedness. “You can’t necessarily expect a utility or an agency to go and knock on the door of everyone in the community.”

Disaster preparedness is not an isolated science but the intersection of several. It's seeing how certain hazards interact with this particular built environment and this particular community of people noted Jeff Schlegelmilch in Instituto Questão De Ciência. ow.ly/RSiJ50REtag

Jeff Schlegelmilch talks with BBC News Brasil about lessons learned from Hurricane Katrina as the Rio Grande do Sul confronts the scope of destruction caused by the largest flood in its history. ow.ly/VIMG50RFTBq Alessandra Corrêa #RioGrandedoSul

#HurricaneBeryl is devastating island nations in the Caribbean. Jeff Schlegelmilch talks with TRT World about the storm and the broader impacts of the climate crisis. #climatechange Columbia Climate School ow.ly/HjXh50SuMCu

🎧️ - Listen to the Tactics Meeting Podcast - Dan Smiley talks with Jeff Schlegelmilch about the threats from climate change, pandemics, technological failures & social disruptions. They discuss components of building resilient communities. ow.ly/HPBA50SzHIS

"Megadisasters decimate the supplies needed to respond to a disaster and destroy systems needed to manage catastrophes. A disaster becomes 'mega' through the hubris of societal development that amplifies our vulnerability" and more, writes Jeff Schlegelmilch cnn.com/2024/07/14/opi…

Glad to be part of this series and to talk about the growing threat of and our increasing vulnerability to mega disasters.

Opinion: ‘The big one’ disaster could happen in our lifetime. Can we even be ready? NCDP director Jeff Schlegelmilch poses a big question and offers solutions to address megadisasters of the future. ow.ly/ltII50SB7wF

"The warning signs are written in the history books of past societies destroyed, the models and projections from scientists studying the growing threats and even in the imagination of fiction writers and Hollywood films," writes NCDP director Jeff Schlegelmilch. Via

No próximo dia 12 de agosto, às 10h, na Sala do Conselho Universitário, ocorrerá o USP Lecture - Rethinking Incentives for Disaster Resilience, com Jeffrey Schlegelmilch. O evento será transmitido via YouTube (youtube.com/live/N0Sr85T05…) e não haverá tradução para o português.

Welcome to five new Columbia Climate School faculty members: LDEO climate scientists Dr. Suzana Camargo and Gisela Winckler, Center for Climate Systems Research director Dr. Michael J Puma, Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI) director Lisa Sachs, and NCDP director Jeff Schlegelmilch! news.climate.columbia.edu/2024/08/06/cli…

100 million dead birds later, avian flu persists. Why our policies are not working, writes Ellen Carlin and Jeff Schlegelmilch in TheHillOpinion. ow.ly/hTwa50SUS2u #H5N1

We welcome the new Climate School Dean Abramson and look forward to collaborating into the future. We also appreciate all that Interim Dean Shaman has done to lead the Climate School during this transition. Columbia Climate School

Recently returned from keynoting the Amcham Brasil CEO Forum in Porto Alegre 🇧🇷 where they are recovering from devastating flooding. Also gave a lecture at USP - Universidade de São Paulo and meet with colleague. Thx to Instituto Questão De Ciência and Amcham Brasil for making these conversations on resilience happen!

New podcast episode drop with Jeff Schlegelmilch and Carol Hay - #EMGTwitter , what do YOU think BDSM can offer to risk assessment? And are jordan pascoe and Mitch Stripling really in a threesome with Immanuel Kant to change disaster policy? tough-shift.captivate.fm/listen

While the extreme events we face are hard to predict with precision, we do know we will see more of them. Fostering social bonds & civic engagement are important factors in building ‘whole of community’ resilience, noted Jeff Schlegelmilch. ow.ly/fVrs50TpwiO Columbia Climate School

"While the extreme events we face are hard to predict with precision, we do know we will see more of them. There are many steps that people can take to prepare themselves and their communities," says Columbia Climate School NCDP director Jeff Schlegelmilch. news.climate.columbia.edu/2024/09/17/pre…