On 17 August 2023, Avoidable Deaths Network released its fourth Annual Report. We submitted our first Annual Report to the Institute for Environmental Futures. The Annual Report can be downloaded through this link: Download Annual Report 2022-2023
‘Gender and Technology’ at the World Anthropology Congress 2023
On 13 August 2023, Dr Madhulika Sahoo and Dr Nibedita Ray-Bennett convened the panel ‘Gender and Technology’ at the World Anthropology Congress 2023 organised by KISS in Bhubaneswar, India. Four abstracts were received for this panel, and three speakers presented their…
Avoidable Deaths Network On Air of Two Prominent Radios of Barbados
1 December 2021 LISTEN NOW ON SOUNDCLOUD Shayla Murrell – Interviewer Information Officer, Barbados Government Information Service Daniel Mendez Avoidable Deaths Network Regional Coordinator – Caribbean Krishna Clarke Avoidable Deaths Network Regional Coordinator – Caribbean The Avoidable…
Commonwealth Distance Learning Scholarships Awarded
Two prestigious Commonwealth Distance Learning Scholarships awarded to two students Hanifa Sango from Kenya and Chifundo Katanga from Malawi have been awarded Commonwealth Scholarships to allow them to pursue the MSc in Risk, Crisis and Disaster Management (RCDM), while living…
First Milestone Achieved for the IPPF-Funded Project
First Milestone Achieved for the IPPF-Funded Project entitled “Developing a Protocol for Low-Budget Reproductive Health Kit during Disasters and Crises”. We are excited to announce that after months of systematic literature review of 47 sexual and reproductive health kits, 4…
Meeting the Winners of the Art Project on ‘Hope’
Meeting the Winners of the Art Project ‘Hope’ The winners of the art project on ‘Hope’ were announced through the ADN’s second newsletter on 31 October 2020. This project was led by the ADN’s Operations Manager, Mrs Denise Corsel. This…
‘COVID-19 in The Netherlands: Both a Biological Disaster and an Economic Disaster’ by ADN’s Knowledge Exchange Officer, Jos Bal
COVID-19 in The Netherlands: Both a Biological Disaster and an Economic Disaster By: Mr Jos Bal, ADN’s Knowledge Exchange Officer The coronavirus (COVID-19) is still spreading globally. Currently, in the world, there have been almost 5 million confirmed COVID-19 cases…
Belize COVID-19 Update from ADN’s Regional Coordinator, Daniel Mendez
Belize COVID-19 Update By: Daniel Mendez COVID-19 continues to cause major health, economic, social and psychological impacts across the Americas. As of 10 May 2020, there were 1,702,451 confirmed cases, with 101,874 reported deaths (PAHO, 2020). In the Central American…
COVID-19 Overview in Africa from our Regional Coordinator in Nigeria, Dr Azukaego Nnaji
COVID-19 Overview in Africa By: Dr Azukaego Nnaji Corona virus disease discovered in Wuhan china in 2019 commonly called COVID-19 is the current pandemic that has brought the entire world to a standstill at the moment. In world history, various…
Caribbean COVID-19 Update from our Regional Coordinator, Krishna Clarke
Caribbean COVID-19 Update By: Krishna Clarke The Corona Virus or Covid-19 as it is known, is to date, one of the world most widespread pandemics by infection rate in recorded history (Gill and Tilleray, 2020). As of the end of…
ADN’s First Birthday
ADN’s First Birthday By: Dr Nibedita S. Ray-Bennett The Sun Will Never Set on the ADN’s First Birthday: Tomorrow we will be celebrating the ADN’s first birthday. The ADN was launched on 12 March 2019 at the 4th Summit of…
ADN’s President Meets the Youngest Innovator in Mumbai, India
ADN’s President Meets the Youngest Innovator in Mumbai, India By: Dr. Nibedita Ray-Bennett On the 11th of January 2020, I met Arkoneil Ghosh via Skype, assisted by his mum Rini Sinha Ghosh. Arkoneil is our ADN’s Junior Champion based in Mumbai,…
Newsletter No.1: Full Letter from the Editor-in-Chief
Dear readers and the ADN community, Welcome to our first newsletter for the Avoidable Deaths Network (ADN). ADN is a global membership network, dedicated to finding theoretical and practical solutions to reducing deaths from disasters. The newsletter will…
Project – RCDDM: Future Leader Programme
May 2017 to June 2019 – Risk, Crisis, Disaster and Development Management (RCDDM): Future Leader Programme Funded by Kansai University’s Grant-in-Aid for the Promotion and Upgrading of Education and Research, this 22-months research project was led by the Principal Investigators:…
Project – Improving the Quality and Availability of Reproductive Health in Disasters
October 2015 to July 2018 – Improving the Quality and Availability of Reproductive Health in Disasters in Belkuchi Upazila, Bangladesh The world is facing stronger and longer disasters, protracted complex emergencies, conflicts and epidemics. These humanitarian crises can expose weakness…
Project – Earth Observation for DRR
February 2017 to April 2017 – Earth Observation for Disaster Risk Reduction in the Horn of Africa Funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)’s International Development Innovation and Impact Fund, this three months scoping project explored the earth observation…
Supporting Victims of Overseas Terrorism: Advice for Local Areas
In the United Kingdom, the Home Office Victims of Terrorism Unit have developed an information pack, which outlines the support available to people who have been affected by the Sri Lanka terror attacks. All Local Resilience Forums across the country…