The Center's Investigators conduct original research on population preparedness, response, and recovery; disaster impacts along the life-course; systems approaches to disaster studies; risk communication and decision-making; and the study of resilience. The Center serves as a resource to affected and at-risk communities; to policy-makers and public officials; to disaster and public health scholars; to the media; and to the public health students and the larger academic community at New York University.

The current research portfolio of the Center includes NIH-funded work on long-term disaster recovery, NSF-funded work on the role of belief systems in vaccine-related decision-making, and CDC-funded work on developing performance measures of public health preparedness, as well as ongoing research on the impacts of COVID on the New York State health workforce.