From pandemic preparedness and emergency management to terrorism and cyber attacks, the organizers of the upcoming 19th World Conference on Disaster Management has lined up a number of high-profile experts to speak on a variety of topics of great interest to the health and safety community.

Investing in pandemic planning not only benefits worker health, it can positively affect a company’s financial survival as well.

This is according to new research from the Schulich School of Business entitled, Making a Case for Investing in Pandemic Preparedness, which studies the micro-economic impact of an influenza pandemic on individual companies.