Disaster Management

Life in the Year of Covid

Colonel David Bates ARRC

23 April 2020

Lessons are Identified but Seldom Learned

The importance of Mitigation and Preparation

The Response and Recovery

The Disaster Response/Management Cycle All Hazards/Most Likely Hazards Approach

Pan-Govt and Multi-Agency Approach

People

https://www.elsevier.com/books/introduction-to-international-disaster-management/coppola/978-0-12-801477-6

Coppola D (2015), Introduction to International Disaster Management. Butterworth-Heinemann, Amsterdam

17091618 - 481347 - 53

Pandemic 75 to 250 m deathsIn Eurasia, Africa and Europe

English Civil War

1642 - 51

Social and Societal Change

Mini Ice Age

Climatic Change leading to Global Economic Downturn

30 YRS WAR

BlackDeath

Lessons are Identified but Seldom Learned

Pre – Germ TheoryAvoid Future Shocks through Mitigation and Preparation

WW1‘Spanish’

Flu

Climate Change

To date

1914 - 191918

Pandemic 50 m deathsWorld Wide

WW2

1939 - 45

Climatic Change

Social and Societal Change

Disasters will happen

Nuclear Age

Those who fail to learn the lessons of history …

… behaviours do not change

F&M – 2000

Bird Flu

SARS – 2002 to 03

Swine Flu – 2009 to 10

Ebola – 2014 to 15

Covid - 19

Poor or no biosecurityLack of medical intelligence

Including real-time surveillance

Global health is only as strong

as the weakest partner

The importance of Mitigation and Preparation…

WHO Ottawa Declaration (1986) - healthy public policy

https://www.who.int/healthpromotion/conferences/previous/ottawa/en/

Cameron (2010) - Health is Global

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/215656/dh_125671.pdf

Pandemic Planning – 2011, 2014 and 2016

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pandemic-influenza-response-plan

National Security Strategy (Current)https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment

_data/file/61936/national-security-strategy.pdf

Pollock Report (2013)https://www.jesip.org.uk/uploads/media/pdf/Pollock_Review_Oct_2013.pdf

Kerslake Report (2018)https://www.kerslakearenareview.co.uk/

The importance of Mitigation and Preparation …

… to The Response and Recovery

The Big 3

Communications – decision advantage

Lack of Joint Training

Lack of Joint coordination and cooperation

Multi-Agency Working should be the Norm ie pan-government

Public Health Emergencies are not Medical Emergencies – they are ‘multi-dimensional’

Operators need the kit on the day – ‘just in case’ not ‘just in time’(physical and moral component) – a false economy?

Messaging needs to be consistent – factual

Don’t feel the need to have to brief something every day

Don’t politicise emergencies and disasters to gain kudos/votes

Messaging needs to boost the ‘moral’ component

Education + training + practise experience = capability

Survive to Fight NOT Fighting to Survive

Life After the Year of Covid

Will we Learn the Lessons?

UoC Offer

HCPD 4035, 5035, 6035, 7035

Disaster Response(Available now – via web link)

Stand-alone modules or

University Advanced Diploma or

Post Graduate Certificate

https://www.cumbria.ac.uk/study/courses/cpd-and-short-courses/disaster-response/

E-learningCertificate to Masters

FlexibleAffordableAdaptable

https://www.cumbria.ac.uk/study/courses/postgraduate/disaster-crisis-and-humanitarian-response-practice-development/https://www.cumbria.ac.uk/study/courses/cpd-and-short-courses/disaster-crisis-and-humanitarian-response-practice-development-uad/

HCPD 4036, 5036, 6036, 7036

Safety and Security for Disaster Response, Humanitarian Action

and Reconstruction Workers(Commences Sep 20)

https://www.cumbria.ac.uk/study/courses/cpd-and-short-courses/safety-and-security-for-humanitarian-disaster-response-and-development-workers/

HCPD 4037, 5037, 6037, 7037

Humanitarian Action(Available now – via web link)

https://www.cumbria.ac.uk/study/courses/cpd-and-short-courses/humanitarian-action/