This book presents a roadmap to help guide the actions needed to address health disparities introduced as part of the pre-planning, planning, and mitigation phases of natural and technological disasters.

Chapter 1. Health, Inequalities, and Building a Culture of Preparedness; Chapter 2. Inclusive Preparedness and Emergency Response for Disasters Yet to Come; Chapter 3. Racialized Healthcare Inequities as Determinant of COVID-19 Disaster Risks and Outcomes: Moving Towards COVID-19 Disaster Recovery; Chapter 4. Partnering with Black Organizations to Deliver Vaccine Education in Black Communities; Chapter 5. Towards re-enforcing resilience in crisis: African American family voices during the COVID-19 pandemic; Chapter 6. Understanding How Disasters Worsen Disparities in Non-Communicable Diseases; Chapter 7. Preparedness for Pandemic Disasters to Come; Chapter 8. Cross-National Newspaper Coverage of Climate Change: Community Structure Theory and "Buffered" Health and Female Privilege; Chapter 9. Disaster Response Inclusiveness to Persons with Disabilities and the Elderly in the Philippines; Chapter 10. Gender Dimension of Disasters in Africa: Building a Gender Inclusive Culture of Preparedness; Chapter 11. Pre-existing sociodemographic and health characteristics and trends in confirmed COVID-19 cases in Louisiana; Chapter 12. Social Inequality, COVID-19, and the Delta Wave: Intersections of Race, Gender, and Education; Chapter 13. Convergence of COVID-19 Pandemic Disaster, Mental Health, and Substance Use Disorder; Chapter 14. How Deliberate Planning and Improvisation Shaped Our Response to COVID-19; Chapter 15. Lessons Learned and Moving Forward from Hurricane Katrina: Emergency Response Planning to Build an Inclusive Response Framework; Chapter 16. Health Disparities and Promoting a Culture of Preparedness: Building Resilience and Tangible Trust in an Age of Disasters; Index