Presentation at the Consultion Day event about: Scientific and Technical Platforms / Networks: Achievements and Future Goals during the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction GPDRR 2013 in Geneva

1. Thematic Platform on Emergency & Disaster Risk Management for Health
15h00-18h00, Monday 20 May 2013
15.00-
Welcome& Health in the ISDR system
Welcome Alistair Humphrey Canterbury District Health Board
ThematicPlatform:progressreportanddaftplanofactionfor2013-2014 JonathanAbrahams WHO,Geneva
15.20-
ThemeI
Communitiesand Health
EngagingIndigenousPeoplesinDisasterRiskReduction JohnC.Scott CenterforPublicService
Communications,USA
NurseManagers’PerceptionofHospitalResilience YuliZang ShandongUniversity,China
LessonsLearnedfromincreasedmortalityriskamongstnursinghomeresidents
evacuatedaftertheFukushimanuclearaccidentinJapan ShuheiNomura UniversityofTokyo, Japan
UrbanHealthEmergencyRiskManagement ArturoPesigan WHOKobe,Japan
EngagingIDPs,theirsurroundingcommunitiesandcareprovidersinemergencyrisk
managementforhealth KaisaKontunen InternationalOrganizationforMitigation
Discussion Allpanelists
15.56-
ThemeII
Research,Case Studies
and Health
Healthasdriverforchangeindisasteranddevelopment:atheoreticalandpracticalbasis
tohowsocietalhealthmediatesdisasterreduction AndrewE.Collins NorthumbriaUniversity,UK
StrengtheningNationalEmergencyRiskManagementforHealth–casestudiesfrom
OmanandNewZealand OsmanDar PublicHealthEngland,UK
“It’sAllright?”:Aresearch-informedsocialmarketingcampaigntoassistandenable
recoveryaftertheCanterburyearthquake,2010-11 SarbjitJohal MasseyUniversity,NewZealand
Researchprioritiesforcommunityresilience:mitigatinghealthriskindisasterand
humanitariancrisisintheAsiaPacificRegion EmilyChan ChineseUniversityofHongKong,China
Discussion Allpanelists
16.26- Break
16.35-
ThemeIII
Sexualand ReproductiveHealth
Integratingsexualandreproductivehealthwithinhealthemergencyanddisasterrisk
management JenniferSchlecht Women’sRefugeeCommission
MeetingSRHneedsincontextofhumanitariancrisisduetonaturaldisaster:various
examplesfromfield MartinMigombano InternationalPlannedParenthood
Federation/SPRINT
Discussion Allpanelists
16.55-
ThemeIV
Pandemic,Climate and Health
Theweatherandclimatecommunitye’scontributiontoimprovedhealthoutcomes WayneElliott WMO,Geneva
PreparednessandresponsetoextremeweathereventsintheWHOEuropeanRegion BettinaMenne WHORegionalOfficeforEurope
Towardsasaferworld ChadiaWannous UN,Geneva
Developmentsinpandemicriskmanagement–newguidancefromWHO AdrienneRashford WHO,Geneva
Discussion Allpanelists
17.25-
Theme V
Countries, Communities and Health
Disasterrisk managementin Africa – theUgandacasestudy KalambayKalula WHORegionalOfficefor Africa
Progressreporton DRR forhealth:PublicHealthEngland VirginiaMurray PublicHealthEngland,UK
Scalingup emergencyand disasterrisk managementfor healthat the community
level AntonySpalton UNICEF,Geneva
Discussion Allpanelists
17.50-
Health in the Post-2015 Framework
for Disaster Risk Reduction
Implicationsfor the Post-2015Framework forDRR JonathanAbrahams WHO,Geneva
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