Full List of Publications

TECHNICAL REPORTS

• Accelerating Technological Innovation Across the U.S. Wildfire Management System (2026)

• Fire and Our Future: Results from RAND Workshop on Envisioning Interactions with the Built Environment, Utilities, and Health Systems in 2075 (2025)

• Mass migration: how RAND is addressing one of the greatest challenges and opportunities of the century (2025) 

• Understanding Migration in the Context of Puerto Rico’s Recovery (2025) 

• Emergency Management Research: Hard to Find, Difficult to Organize (2025)

• Migration Narratives in Northern Central America: How competing stories about emigration and immigration in Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador shape regional policy (2023)

• Capacities of Health Systems in Climate Migrant Receiving Communities (2023)

• Community and Individual Disaster Resilience for Floods: Options for improving protective action guidance (2023)

• Educating and Training the DoD Workforce for Global Health Engagements in Support of the Geographic Combatant Commands (2023) 

• Planning for Significant Cyber Incidents: An Introduction for Decisionmakers (2022) 

• Managing Response to Significant Cyber Incidents: Comparing Event Life Cycles and Incident Response Across Cyber and Non-Cyber Events (2022) 

• Addressing climate migration: a review of national policy approaches (2021) 

• How Smart Cities Could Improve Open Data Portals to Empower Local Residents and Businesses: A Case Study of the City of Los Angeles and COVID-19 (2020) 

• Building Community Resilience to Large Oil Spills: Findings and Recommendations from a Synthesis of Research on the Mental Health, Economic, and Community Distress Associated with the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill (2020)

• Deterring Attacks Against the Power Grid: Two Approaches for the U.S. Department of Defense (2020)

• We are human too! Concern Worldwide’s efforts to reduce risks for the homeless migrants of Dhaka, Bangladesh (2017) 

• The influence of religion on disaster risk reduction and resilience: a case study of Typhoon Haiyan-affected areas in the Philippines (2017)

• Building cyber-resilience of interconnected critical infrastructures: what is the role of public utility commissions? (2017) 

• Working in, on, or around conflict? Concern Worldwide’s conflict management in Port au Prince, Haiti. (2017)

• Risk, Cities, and Asia: The Path Forward (2016)

• What’s the difference between reliability and resilience? (2016)

• Disaster Risk Reduction for Community Resilience: A synthesis of lessons from more than a decade of Disaster Risk Reduction Programming (2015)

• Concern Worldwide’s approach to disaster risk reduction in riverine, coastal, mountain, dryland, and urban contexts (5 reports for Concern Worldwide) (2014)

• World Humanitarian Summit Irish Consultative Process Academic, Diaspora, NGO, Public Sector, and Synthesis Papers (5 reports for the World Humanitarian Summit) (2014)

• Concern Worldwide’s approach to disaster risk reduction in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Haiti, Mozambique, Pakistan, Zambia, and Sierra Leone (8 reports for Concern Worldwide) (2013)

TOOLS & TOOLKITS

• The Incident Management Measurement Toolkit (2024) 

• Improving CISA Stakeholder Identification: A New Model (2024) 

• Resilience for Systems (R4s): A New Approach for Assessing the Resilience of Local Systems (2024)

• A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Incident Management Systems During Public Health Emergencies. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness (2022)

• Practitioner approaches to measuring community resilience: The analysis of the resilience of communities to disasters toolkit. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (2021)

• Participatory risk network analysis: A tool for disaster reduction practitioners. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (2017)

ACADEMIC JOURNAL ARTICLES

• Decadal Predictions of Future Habitat Favourability of the European Green Crab (Carcinus maenas) on the Pacific Coast of North America. Hydrobiologia (Forthcoming)

• Measuring trauma: a preliminary analysis of the hurricane-related traumatic experiences questionnaire. Climate and Development (2025)

• The Impact of Tropical Cyclone Exposure on Infant Mortality in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. Science Advances (2025)

• Parallels and discrepancies between non-native species introductions and human migration. Biological Reviews (2025)

• The Incident Management Measurement Tool: A tool for measuring public health incident management during and after emergencies. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness (2025)

• Global Population Profile of Tropical Cyclone Exposure, 2000-2019. Nature (2024)

• Social vulnerability shapes the experiences of climate migrants displaced by Hurricane Maria. Climate and Development (2024)

• Think global, act local: using a ‘trans-local’ approach to understand community-based organisations’ responses to planetary health crises during COVID-19. Lancet Planetary Health (2023)

• Climate Change-Related Mass Migration Requires Health System Resilience. Environmental Research: Health (2023)

• International humanitarian narratives of disasters, crises and indigeneity. Disasters (2023)

• Collective Action by Community Groups: Solutions for Climate Change or Different Players in the Same Game? Climate and Development (2023)

• Disasters and indigenous peoples: A critical discourse analysis of the expert news media. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space (2023)

• Humanitarian policymaking as networked governance: Social network analysis of the Global Compact on Refugees. Journal of International Humanitarian Action (2022)

• An urban governance framework for including environmental migrants in sustainable cities. Climate (2022)

• Informality, violence, and disaster risks: Coproducing flood and landslide early warning systems with communities in informal and precarious urban settlements in Honduras. Frontiers in Climate (2022)

• Efforts to End a Stalemate in Landslide Insurance Availability through Inclusive Policymaking: A Case Study in Sitka, Alaska. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (2022)

• Hybrid governance of disaster management in Freetown, Monrovia, and Dar es Salaam. Disasters (2022)

• Disaster risk creation and cascading disasters within large technological systems: COVID‐19 and the 2021 Texas blackouts. Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management (2021)

• When disaster management agencies create disaster risk: a case study of the US's Federal Emergency Management Agency. Disaster Prevention and Management (2021)

• The Family Crisis Migration Stress Model: A framework to understand the mental health effects of crisis migration on children, adolescents, and families caused by disasters. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development (2021)

• Delivering the Promise of Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Contexts (FCAC): A Case Study of the NGO GOAL’s Response to the Syria Conflict. Progress in Disaster Science (2021)

• Smart cities as large technological systems: Overcoming organizational challenges in smart cities through collective action. Sustainable Cities and Society (2021)

• Communication missteps during COVID‐19 hurt those already most at risk. Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management (2020)

• Maintaining critical infrastructure resilience to natural hazards during the COVID-19 pandemic: hurricane preparations by US energy companies. Journal of Infrastructure Preservation and Resilience (2020)

• Incorporating issues of elderly loneliness into the COVID-19 public health response. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness (2020)

• Disaster risk reduction is not ‘everyone's business’: Evidence from three countries. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (2020)

• Comparing networked and linear risk assessments: From theory to evidence. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (2018)

• Regulating risks within complex sociotechnical systems: Evidence from critical infrastructure cybersecurity standards. Science and Public Policy (2018)

• Beyond regulatory capture: Coproducing expertise for critical infrastructure protection. Regulation & Governance (2018)

BOOK CHAPTERS

• Misinformation and Conspiracies in COVID Times. In COVID Studies: New Directions in Social Science Disaster Research: University of Pennsylvania Press (2026)

• Older adults’ behavioral health during the COVID-19 pandemic. In COVID-19, Frontline Responders and Mental Health: A Playbook for Delivering Resilient Public Health Systems Post-Pandemic: Emerald (2023)

• Risk Technopolitics in Freetown Slums: Why Community Based Disaster Management Is No Silver Bullet. In Critical Disaster Studies: University of Pennsylvania Press (2021)

• Disaster Risk reduction in Cities: Towards a New Normal. In External Interventions for Disaster Risk Reduction: Springer (2020)

• A Complexity Approach for Reducing Disaster Risks for Marginalized Urban Populations: Comparing DRR Interventions Across Four Cities. In External Interventions for Disaster Risk Reduction: Springer (2020)

• Resilience: The Holy Grail or yet another hype? In The Humanitarian Challenge: Springer (2015)

COMMENTARIES & BRIEFS

• A Knowledge Deluge Threatens Disaster Research. The RAND Blog (2026)

• Federal Disaster Assistance Was Never Intended to Make You Whole. The RAND Blog (2025)

• Why AI must include community voices. Preventionweb (2025)

• The LA Fires and the need for long-term strategy building wildland fire resilience. The RAND Blog (2025)

• As Fires Continue to Burn Around Los Angeles, Here are Some Recovery Tips and Resources. The RAND Blog (2025)

• The Role of AI in Meeting a Great Emergency Management Challenge. Domestic Preparedness (2024)

• Evacuating from Hurricane Milton: What the Whole Community Can Do. The RAND Blog (2024)

• A Different Kind of Disaster Response: Using Social Media Best Practices to Stem the Tide of Misinformation. The RAND Blog (2024)

• Community-Driven Recovery: The Lahaina Wildfires a Year Later. The RAND Blog (2024)

• Realizing the Power of Community in Disaster Recovery. Domestic Preparedness (2024)

• Five Key Domains of Incident Management. Domestic Preparedness (2024)

• Earthquake in Turkey, Syria: Insights from RAND Researchers. The RAND Blog (2023)

• How do we improve urban early warning and early action for food security? UNDRR Expert Voices (2023)

• Last week, the real threat to U.S. national security didn’t come from a balloon. LA Times (2023)

• Preparing for a cyber-attack starts at the local level. International Association of Emergency Managers (2022)

• To Help Climate Migrants, We Must First Recognize Them. The Hill (2022)

• We must address inequality to build back better from disasters. CNN (2021)

• Climate change is only one driver of explosive wildfire seasons – don't forget land management. The Hill (2021)

• As Fire Season Heats Up, Burnout Looms. The RAND Blog (2021)

• Four strategies to reduce disaster risk in fragile and conflict affected contexts. UNDRR Expert Voices (2021)

• Climate Migrants Face a Mental Health Crisis. The Hill (2021)

• Climate Change Migration –Developing a Security Strategy for All. The National Interest (2021)

• Tech Alone Isn't Enough to Create a Smart City. Route Fifty (2021)

• We need more humanitarian bureaucracy, not less. ICRC Humanitarian Law & Policy (2021)

• Equity is Crucial for Reducing Disaster Risk in Cities. Know Disasters (2020)  

• What’s missing from community disaster response? The whole community. The National Interest (2020)

• Another Record-Breaking Fire Season Shows the Need for a Comprehensive Strategy. The RAND Blog (2020)

• Disaster Reporting and its impacts on policy and inequities. Poynter (2020)

• The downside of a lean electric grid. The Hill (2020)

• How COVID-19 Sheds Light on Disaster Policy’s Need to Prepare for Multiple, Sequential Emergencies. Urban Wire (2020)

• COVID-19: How DRR can help reduce elderly loneliness. UNDRR Expert Voices (2020)

• Imagine Hurricane Katrina during a pandemic. The US needs to prepare for that. Vox (2020)

• Wildfire and Covid-19. National Fire Protection Association Journal (2020).

• Emergency Homeless Services During the COVID-19 Crisis. Preventionweb (2020)

• Moving beyond the ‘multi-stakeholder’ buzzword. UNDRR Expert Voices (2019)

• Urban migrants and disaster risk: Concern Worldwide’s work with the pavement dwellers of Dhaka. UNDRR Expert Voices (2017)

• Nine principles for incorporating disaster risk reduction into community resilience. UNDRR Expert Voices (2017)

• How FEMA can avoid disaster if the Trump administration changes its policies. Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (2017)

• Infrastructural interdependencies and risk: 7 takeaways from the California PUC’s 2016 Safety en Banc. Energy Central (2016)

• How America Could go Dark: A critique. Energy Central (2016)

• Local level disaster risk reduction is not a panacea. Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere (2016)

• Disaster reduction: photos from around the world. Stand.ie (2015)

• Working in development: child health in Sierra Leone. Stand.ie (2014)

• Afghanistan’s Disaster risk reduction story. Concern Knowledge Matters (2013)