Revised and updated for its 20th anniversary, the fifth edition of Landesman's Public Health Management of Disasters: The Practice Guide is both a comprehensive textbook and an essential tool for those who have a role in disaster management. Every chapter now includes an expansive section on COVID-19 covering all of public health's responsibility as it relates to the pandemic. This edition continues to serve as the only comprehensive work detailing public health's permanent role and responsibility in emergency management and disaster prevention, preparedness, response, recovery and reconstruction.