Activities

What do we do?

Our activities include:

• • • • Foster trans-disciplinary ideas, partnerships and solutions to reduce avoidable disaster deaths and people affected by disasters for sustainable development in low-and middle-income countries, through knowledge exchange events (conferences, symposiums and webinars).
      • Raise visibility and awareness of the Sendai Framework’s first two targets, through publications, and knowledge exchange events.
      • Develop capacities of disaster responders and other stakeholders, through continuing professional development courses, knowledge exchange events and an information repository.
      • Develop lifesaving tools, kits, interventions, innovative technologies, governance models and theories to reduce the burden of maternal mortality, snakebite mortality, drowning mortality during disasters, and tsunami mortality through evidence-based pioneering research on hazards, exposures, vulnerability and risks.
      • Strengthen connections between disaster responders, through leveraging existing and promoting novel networking platforms.
      • Nurture future leaders for Avoidable Deaths and improve their leadership and employability skills, through expert mentoring and engaging Interns for activities related to 1-5.
      • Publishing Newsletter and Bulletins for knowledge exchange; and
      • Actively soliciting and securing private and public funds to promote the above activities.

 

Our research themes are:

• • • • Disaster education.
      • Maternal mortality and morbidity from an unsafe abortion and post-abortion complications during disasters and crises.
      • Direct and indirect disaster deaths.
      • Snakebites deaths during disasters.
      • Lightning deaths.