Caroline Hackerott, assistant professor of emergency management, was quoted in a recent WalletHub.com story. She is featured in “Most Aggressive State Against the Coronvirus,” by financial writer Adam McCann.
Hackerott was asked the following questions:
• What are the best measures authorities can take to ensure the safety of its citizens?
• Given the current actions taken, which are the states that have dealt with the COVID-19 pandemic most efficiently in your opinion?
• Despite all the OVID-19 warnings, many Americans are not abiding by state or local government restriction aimed at combating the spread of COVID-19. How can local authorities prevent this? Can the media play a more significant role in educating citizens on the dangers of this pandemic?
“Urban, suburban and rural communities will experience differences in resources as well as transmission rates,” Hackerott said in the article. “The states who practiced effective vertical and horizontal, multi-jurisdictional and multi-sectoral relationship-building before the pandemic and active, inclusive coordination as the pandemic grows are demonstrating the greatest effectiveness. I am pleased to observe state leaders discussing the potential of staggering responses among each other.”
Hackerott joined the NDSU faculty in 2019. She earned two bachelor’s degrees and her master’s degree in nutritional sciences at Kansas State University, Manhattan, her doctorate in higher education administration from the University of Oklahoma, Norman, and her doctorate in emergency management at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater.
She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in research design, social aspects of disaster and disaster response, recovery and preparedness.
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