Each CONVERGE Training Module features learning objectives, lesson plans, written content, and case study vignettes. The modules also include a list of publications for further reading as well as access to related standardized scales and measures, online resources, data sets, and other information. Each module is followed by a short multiple choice quiz. Those who receive a score of 80% or higher will receive a CONVERGE Training Module Certificate of Completion and one contact hour of general management training through the International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM) certification program.
This Training Module focuses on the broader ethical considerations for conducting research in a disaster setting.
Release Date: January 2021
Authors: Adams, Rachel M., Candace M. Evans, and Lori Peek
Funding Support: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and National Science Foundation
This Training Module focuses on ways to collect and share perishable hazards and disaster data.
Release Date: May 2021
Authors: Evans, Candace M., Rachel M. Adams, and Lori Peek
Funding Support: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and National Science Foundation
This Training Module describes emotionally challenging research and highlights the ways that recognizing researchers’ emotions can lead to more ethical and methodologically sound research practices in the context of extreme events.
Release Date: August 2020
Authors: Fehr, Tracy, Skye Niles, Bertha Alicia Bermudez Tapia, Candace Evans, Rachel M. Adams, and Lori Peek
Funding Support: National Science Foundation
This Training Module focuses on culturally competent research and offers guidance on how hazards and disaster researchers can build cultural competence.
Release Date: June 2019
Authors: Wu, Haorui, Rachel M. Adams, Candace M. Evans, Melissa Villarreal, Lori Peek, and Irena Papadopoulos
Funding Support: National Science Foundation
This Training Module focuses on mental health outcomes associated with disasters, with a particular emphasis on risk factors over time that make certain populations vulnerable to poor disaster mental health outcomes.
Release Date: September 2019
Authors: Adams, Rachel, Candace M. Evans, and Lori Peek
Funding Support: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and National Science Foundation
This Training Module introduces users to Institutional Review Board (IRB) procedures and offers guidance on how to work with the IRB to ensure ethical extreme events research.
Release Date: April 2020
Authors: Wu, Haorui, Melissa Villarreal, Rachel M. Adams, Candace M. Evans, and Lori Peek
Funding Support: National Science Foundation
This module bridges public health and hazards and disaster research by showcasing case studies with important implications for public health.
Release Date: February 2022
Authors: Hansen, Alexa, Courtney Welton-Mitchell, Rachel M. Adams, Candace M. Evans, and Lori Peek
Funding Support: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and National Science Foundation
This Training Module focuses on the reciprocal relationship between researchers and disaster affected communities, with an emphasis on providing mutual benefits for both the people involved with and affected by hazards, as well as those participating in disaster research.
Release Date: November 2021
Authors: West, Jocelyn, Heather Champeau, Jessica Austin, Candace M. Evans, Rachel M. Adams, and Lori Peek
Funding Support: U.S. Geological Survey and National Science Foundation
This Training Module focuses on social vulnerability to hazards and disasters, with an emphasis on population groups that have been identified in the literature as especially at risk to the adverse effects of extreme events.
Release Date: June 2019
Authors: Adams, Rachel, Candace M. Evans, and Lori Peek
Funding Support: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and National Science Foundation
This module describes gender-based violence in the context of field research and provides an in-depth exploration of misconceptions, real life scenarios, and strategies for safe fieldwork practices.
Release Date: July 2021
Authors: Heinze Jerika, Rachel M. Adams, Candace M. Evans, and Lori Peek
Funding Support: National Science Foundation
If you are considering requiring or recommending the CONVERGE Training Modules, below are examples from a range of courses of ways that instructors have integrated these modules into their curriculum.
If you are looking for further reading meant to complement the CONVERGE Training Modules, please visit our Annotated Bibliographies page for additional resources.
Each completed CONVERGE Training Module is worth one contact hour of general management training through the International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM) certification program.
Over the next two years, additional CONVERGE Training Modules will be developed and released as part of an online credentialing system.
CONVERGE is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation, Program on Humans, Disasters, and the Built Environment (Award #1841338). Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF.