Grant to Strengthen Campus Emergency Management
September 15, 2009
Georgetown recently received a grant of $549,302 from the U.S. Department of Education to enhance the university’s emergency preparedness initiatives on Main Campus and at the Medical Center.
The grant will be funded over an 18-month period to address the four phases of emergency management at Georgetown, says Rocco DelMonaco, vice president of university safety. Those phases include prevention-mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery.
“This is an effort to enhance existing processes that have been at Georgetown for two decades,” DelMonaco said.
The grant allows DelMonaco and his office -- including Peter Luger, executive director of safety finance and administration, and Whit Chaiyabhat, director of emergency management and operations continuity -- to fund training for various departments all over campus on evacuation processes, infectious disease outbreak, threat assessment and business continuity plans.
