2024 on the Disaster Podcast Episode Retrospective

Disaster Podcast

Our amazing Disaster Podcast team got together this week to share their favorite episodes from 2024. We covered a lot of topics and disaster responses over the previous year but there were a few standouts for each of us.

Becky shared her picks first. She loved our annual “Stump Dan with obscure weather terms” episode. She also mentioned our mental health for first responders episode featuring Dr. Genie Burnett. There was the episode on a Dulles Airport mass casualty drill that Becky and Dan participated in as patients. Her last pick featured Dan Zehner from NHERI who talked about disaster resilient construction and wildfires.

Dan seconded several of the same episodes as Becky did. He also added in the episode we did on the basis of the long term hurricane forecasts. We talked about how forecasters try to nail down the approaching hurricane season months ahead of time each year.

Kyle put the Colorado Avalanche Rescue Dog Training episode at the top of his list. Who could fault him. The dog in question, Ruby, is a cutie. He also mentioned the episode Dr. Joe headed up on the fallout from the Elijah McClain homicide trial where two EMS providers were found guilty in the patient’s death.

Kyle and Jamie both recommended our report from the field with Dr. Joe Holley on the North Carolina Hurricane Helene response and follow up. Dr. Joe also mentioned our ongoing reports from organizations working to assist Ukrainian medical professionals in their efforts to take care of patients. The first episode was on Med Global’s Ukraine Mission. Our other episode for Ukraine response was on educating nurses and doctors in Ukraine with IDMC volunteers.

Jamie added the episodes on Geohazard Mitigation. The first featured a look at one company’s efforts to support critical infrastructure when endangered by soil erosion and mudslides. He specifically liked their Soil Nail Launcher technology. There was also the follow-up episode with Dan Zehner that looked at NHERI’s research on geohazard mitigation.

Finally, co-host Sam Bradley shared her picks. Her first was the Bullets and Bandaids project episode. She also recommended the episode on Connecting Public-Private Sector Partnerships with Healthcare Ready.

And, it wouldn’t be a Disaster Podcast retrospective if we didn’t remember our all-time favorite and quirky episode. Dr. Joe’s now famous discussion on why a foley catheter was a must-have piece of survival gear to have in one’s kit.

This episode was co-hosted by Sam Bradley and Jamie Davis.

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