{"id":2993,"date":"2014-12-22T17:16:18","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T22:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/?p=2993"},"modified":"2017-08-28T13:40:28","modified_gmt":"2017-08-28T17:40:28","slug":"getting-creative-face-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/2014\/12\/getting-creative-face-disaster\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Creative in the Face of Disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"\"Judy<\/a>\n

Stemming the cascade of catastrophe that occurs when an earthquake, hurricane, flood, or other disaster strikes a community is the focus of a $2.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation to researchers from a trio of universities, including Johns Hopkins.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe understand how physical infrastructure fails in the face of disasters, and can provide suggestions on how to change building codes and guidelines,\u201d says Judy Mitrani-Reiser, an assistant professor of civil engineering, who will lead the study. \u201cWith this new award, we are looking at critical infrastructure in the context of providing key community functions: the educational system, the health care system, the governmental system. What real physical infrastructure do you need for a system to function? If the courthouse falls down, can you hold sessions at a backup location to support a fraction or all of its daily functions?\u201d<\/p>\n

Mitrani-Reiser has conducted firsthand studies of the impact of earthquakes on health care delivery systems in Chile, Mexico, and New Zealand, as well as the devastation wrought by Hurricane Sandy in 2012. \u201cI like to push the envelope and study what the impact is on the people of the community,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

The goal of the NSF-funded study is to help communities model and prepare for a major emergency across a wide range of services. \u201cWe want communities to be creative in the ways that they prepare for future emergencies,\u201d says Mitrani-Reiser. \u201cWe want to embolden them with better tools to make important future decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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