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Pursue an exciting career in Emergency Management

Recent events including the H1N1 pandemic, 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, illustrate the serious economic and health impacts emergencies can have on our lives. Many of these events are partially or totally preventable through good planning and response.

To meet the increasing demand for professional education in this field, York University has developed three innovative programs in disaster and emergency management—a new Bachelor of Disaster & Emergency Management, a certificate program in Emergency Management and a Master of Arts in Disaster & Emergency Management. These programs are only a few of their kind in Canada.

Emergency Management is an exciting, rapidly expanding and evolving profession, both domestically and internationally. Increasingly, emergency managers are called upon to understand shifting social, economic, environmental and infrastructure systems. Emergency managers require strong analytic and communication skills to help them establish meaningful dialogue with community representatives and experts in a wide range of fields. As a graduate of our programs, you will be able to synthesize large amounts of complex information and make sound decisions in challenging, and often difficult, circumstances.