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United States of America: Master of Science in Disaster Resilience Leadership

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Country: United States of America
Organization: Tulane University

The Disaster Resilience Leadership Academy at Tulane University is interdisciplinary and encourages domestic involvement as well as international experiences, focusing on disaster operations management and policy, leadership analytics, research/data analysis, environmental hazards and the psychosocial aspect of disasters. We aim to equip our students with a skill-set that prepares them to be a leader in global humanitarian assistance, partaking in emergency preparedness, nonprofit leadership, disaster management, grass-root development, monitoring and evaluation and disaster risk and recovery.

The Disaster Resilience Leadership Academy offers a Master of Science in DRL (36-credit hours). Our 36-credit hour Master's program includes 18 credits of core requirements and 18 credits of electives, 12 electives of which can be taken in any of the Tulane schools to hone your interests. Many students complete the degree in an accelerated manner over 3 semesters. We also offer a 12-credit hour Certificate in DRL. For those that already have a Master's or doctoral degree, we will accept up to 12-credit hours for transfer.

The 2015-16 tuition rate for graduate courses at the Disaster Resilience Leadership Academy is $953 per credit hour.

The DRLA will be running a summer institute in Washington D.C., offering 2-two week courses for a total of six graduate credit hours. Feel free to email for details.

The DRLA is now offering graduate research assistantships, allowing students to offset tuition costs while gaining valuable experience working on major grant projects. Students are engaged in such tasks as mapping using GIS, conducting secondary data analysis, helping design quantitative baseline household surveys to measure resilience in target Sub-Saharan African countries, and conducting research for literature reviews. In addition to the multiple GRA positions working on grant projects funded by USAID and the Gates Foundation, the DRLA has created four new field graduate research assistant positions to work on the BP Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI). The students will be in the field collecting information about health, social wellbeing and economic impacts of the oil spill in three hard-hit coastal communities located in Louisiana and Alabama.

Attached is the Call for Applications, DRLA Brochure, and Graduate Handbook.

Below is a short list that illustrates the breadth of jobs recently acquired by our graduates:

Manager, Psychosocial Programs at Save the Children; Executive Director of Evacuteer.org in NOLA; Associate Program Officer at International Relief and Development (IRD), Washington D.C.; DRLA Program Manager; Emergency Program Manager, Food for Peace at Mercy Corps; Project Manager at Hamilton-Madison House; Program Officer with the Peace Corps in Rwanda; Team Leader with FEMA's Southern Region; Program Officer with Peace Corps in Thailand; Research Coordinator for the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction in Toronto; Grants Associate for the NYC Red Cross; Program Manger, Youth Rebuilding New Orleans; Consultant with Integrated Solutions Consulting; also positions with the San Francisco Emergency Operations Center, Make it Right in NOLA, New Orleans Emergency Operations Center, REM4 Emergency Management Software Solutions; Community Emergency Preparedness Corps, and the International Medical Corps in Turkey near the Syrian border.

We are currently accepting applications for Fall 2015 admission and beyond. Please email info@drlatulane.org to acquire the application for admission.


How to register:

The Disaster Resilience Leadership Academy has rolling admissions with students entering during the fall, spring and summer semesters. We are currently accepting applications for Fall 2015 admission and beyond. Please email info@drlatulane.org to acquire the application for admission.


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