Irwin Redlener
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Irwin Redlener

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Author Irwin Redlener, M.D., is a pediatrician and founding director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University’s Earth Institute, which works to understand and improve the nation's capacity to prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters. In 2020, Dr. Redlener created the Pandemic Resource and Response Initiative (PRRI) at Columbia. He is a public health analyst for NBC and MSNBC, a columnist for The Daily Beast, and he has partnered with Cher through CherCares, a program that assists communities struggling with COVID-19. Dr. Redlener is also President Emeritus and Co-Founder of the Children’s Health Fund, a philanthropic initiative that he created with singer/songwriter Paul Simon and Karen Redlener to develop health care programs in 25 of the nation’s most medically underserved urban and rural communities. He currently serves as a special advisor on emergency preparedness to New York and regularly communicates with leadership in the U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services, as well as Homeland Security. Dr. Redlener is the author of The Future of Us: What the Dreams of Children Mean for Twenty-First-Century America which earned the 2020 Gold Nautilus Book Award. He is also the author of Americans at Risk: Why We Are Not Prepared for Megadisasters and What We Can Do Now. For more information, please visit www.irwinredlener.org.
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    • Why We Are Not Prepared for Megadisasters and What We Can Do
    • By: Irwin Redlener
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    • Release date: 12-27-12
    • Language: English
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