PRRI Director's Corner

March 15, 2022 Two years into COVID-19, where do we go from here By Irwin Redlener and Sean Hansen Precisely two years ago last week, then-Governor Andrew Cuomo declared a…

RCRC COVID-19 Webinars

The unprecedented challenges presented by COVID-19 will both directly and indirectly affect this generation’s children. The economic consequences in the short and long term will set back countless families who…

RCRC National Children's Resilience Board

The National Children’s Resilience Leadership Board (NCRLB) has been established for this project to ensure that the Resilient Children/Resilient Communities Initiative (RCRC) work is connected to the latest research and…

Ebola Media

Dr. Redlener and key staff and the National Center for Disaster Preparedness are actively involved in the monitoring and development of perspectives on the Ebola outbreak. View media stories below….

GCPI Key Findings

The 1,437 parents whom we surveyed reported considerable exposure to the oil spill as well as a number of physical and mental health problems among their children. The key findings…

RCRC Initiative

Emergency response plans often fail to address the specific needs of children and their families before, during, and after disasters. Children’s institutions such as childcare centers and schools are left…

S-CAFH Study Description

The Sandy Child and Family Health Study (S-CAFH) is a comprehensive study exploring the population impact of Hurricane Sandy on residents of New Jersey. Having been modeled upon the longitudinal…

NCDP Resources

Below is a compilation of resources produced by NCDP or in partnership with external partners. This page is a living document and will be updated throughout the pandemic with relevant…

Publications

The ComEd and NCDP thought leadership partnership is analyzing and writing about vulnerabilities pertaining to utility resilience and utility-related policies. Below is a collection of published writings organized by topic…

GCAFH Key Findings

“The Recovery Divide: Poverty and the Widening Gap among Mississippi Children and Families affected by Hurricane Katrina” Households that had been among the working class and the working poor at…

Superstorm Sandy, October 2012

…by Sandy, with a substantial number of the affected homes being uninsured or belonging to low-income households [1]. Two years later, it is difficult to obtain accurate estimates of how…

Racial Disparities and COVID-19

As the world scrambles each week to grapple with the seemingly insurmountable number of positive cases and deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic, public policy is failing some of America’s most…

Financial Instruments Division Videos

The Financial Instruments Division helps people overcome climate risk through financial tools like index insurance and index-based disaster risk management. Below is a series of videos demonstrating our past performance…

External Resources

Psychology Today: How to Talk to Kids and Teens About the Coronavirus: (English) NASP: Talking to Children about COVID-19, A Parent Resource: (English) | (Español) Child Mind Institute: Talking to…

RCYC Publications

The RCYC team at NCDP and LSU have analyzed multiple waves of data from this unique cohort study which tracks a group of households exposed to the Deepwater Horizon Oil…

Financial Instruments (FI) Division

The Financial Instruments Division (FI) helps people overcome climate risk through financial tools like index insurance and index-based disaster risk management. Through our partners, collaborators, and educational activities, we engage…

Financing Climate Adaptation Index

The Financing Climate Adaptation Index (FCAI) is designed to provide a comprehensive understanding of climate vulnerability for nation states in order to improve the targeting and provision of climate change…