CREATE - The Nation's First Homeland Security Center

Reducing Threats, Mitigating Emergencies, Building Resilience

As the Department of Homeland Security’s first University Center of Excellence, CREATE serves our nation through creation of advanced models and tools for the evaluation of the risks, costs and consequences of threats to human livelihood and through assessment of strategies to mitigate risks and respond to emergencies. CREATE's approach is integrated, holistic and impartial, providing independent assessment of hazards, both malevolent and unintentional, including terrorism, accidents, and naturally occurring events.

Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Threats and Emergencies

New Appointment

Erroll Southers to oversee
USC's safety departments

New COVID-19 Research

Impacts of pandemic on the
U.S. economy loom large

STAMINA III Awarded

Funding to optimize the transition of S&T projects

Erroll Southers

“You should be the change
that you are looking for"

CREATE Joins New COE

Engineering Secure Environments from Targeted Attacks

New DHS Study

Impact of complex
maritime disruptions

New USC Grant

Threat assessment/ management in medical systems

New Senior Fellows

CREATE grows expertise
in climate disasters

20 Years After 9/11

USC faculty reflect on combating terror

Beyond Terrorism

CREATE has
a new name

CREATE Expands Focus

Randolph Hall outlines future directions for CREATE

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CREATE PUBLICATIONS

CREATE’s in-house and affiliated faculty are leaders in the field of decision analysis, risk assessment, economic consequence analysis, benefit-cost analysis, resilience, game theory, operations research, and risk management. CREATE has fostered collaboration of researchers from a diverse array of disciplines to tackle some of the most vexing and challenging problems of the 21st Century.

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