Sentence examples for foreign disaster assistance from inspiring English sources

He served from 2013-2017 as the Obama administration's director for foreign disaster assistance at USAID, overseeing the U.S. government's Ebola response in West Africa and numerous other emergencies.

-- Jeremy Konyndyk, a former Obama administration director for foreign disaster assistance at USAID, writes for The Monkey Cage blog on whether federal disaster relief failures can be blamed for the reported wave of secondary deaths in Puerto Rico.

Jeremy Konyndyk is a senior policy fellow at the Center for Global Development, and previously served in the Obama administration as the director for foreign disaster assistance at USAid.

Earlier today, Ky Luu, the director of the US office of foreign disaster assistance, said the Burmese government was frustrating US efforts to help, with skilled aid workers forced to sit on the sidelines.

The US Disaster Assistance Response Team (Dart) includes an urban search-and-rescue team from the Los Angeles county fire department as well as federal experts with the office of US foreign disaster assistance.

Arguably the two most prominent and accessible are the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters/Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (CRED/OFDA) International Disaster Database (EM-DAT) housed in Belgium (Guha-Sapir et al. 2015) and the U.S. National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration National Climate Data Center (NOAA-NCDC) database (NOAA 2015).

Jeremy Konyndyk, at the time the director of USAID's office of U.S. foreign-disaster assistance, told me that it often seemed as if the Saudis were thwarting efforts to get food to Yemen's starving populace.

One of Power's colleagues, Jeremy Konyndyk, a tall, phlegmatic thirty-seven-year-old former aid worker who runs U.S.A.I.D.'s office of foreign-disaster assistance, described Guinea's epidemic as being "at a managed point, but right at the edge of potentially getting into unmanageable".

The relative risk for each geographic region was applied to the baseline rate of flood death and injury [derived from reports catalogued in the Emergency Events database (EM-DAT)] [Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance/Center for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (OFDA/CRED) 2001].

USAID's principal disaster response entity, the Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance OFDAA) has the legislative authority to provide humanitarian assistance based on need.

The Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance of the US Agency for International Development (AID) sent one member of the United States Geological Survey (USGS), along with an AID disaster-relief expert and 12 helicopters with support and medical personnel from Panama.