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York Emergency Mitigation, Engagement, Response, and Governance Institute (Y-EMERGE)

Established in 2022, Y-EMERGE is a pan-university research institute at York University focusing on science, technology, and human and social aspects of disaster and emergency management. It brings together researchers from several faculties with common interests in disaster and emergency management-related research to enhance people's safety and security.

Y-EMERGE will build on York’s exceptional expertise to develop, grow, and sustain transformative and multidisciplinary research and teaching in transformative disaster risk reduction, emergency preparedness, response, and recovery.

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Y-EMERGE is created to leverage and further York University’s institutional capacity and its globally collaborative network to develop and coordinate transformative and integrative research; foster strong networks of researchers, trainees, and practitioners; develop a robust agenda for funding research and practice; and advance disaster and emergency knowledge translation activities to meet the urgent need to transform thinking, policy, and practice in disaster and emergencies for a more resilient and healthy communities in Canada and globally.

Professor Jianhong Wu 
Director of Y-EMERGE

Our Mission

Transformative & Interdisciplinary

Y-EMERGE will transform the way societies understand, conceptualize, analyze, manage, and govern crises, disasters, and emergencies. YEMERGE will foster interdisciplinary collaborations & real-world and need-driven research.

Partnership & Community Engagement

Y-EMERGE will transform the way societies understand, conceptualize, analyze, manage, and govern crises, disasters, and emergencies. YEMERGE will foster interdisciplinary collaborations & real-world and need-driven research.

Knowledge Mobilization & Mentoring

Y-EMERGE will transform the way societies understand, conceptualize, analyze, manage, and govern crises, disasters, and emergencies. YEMERGE will foster interdisciplinary collaborations & real-world and need-driven research.