Conference: People in Disasters 2016
24-26 February 2016
Air Force Museum of New Zealand, Christchurch, New Zealand
Organisers: Canterbury District Health Board and the ‘Researching the Health Implications of Seismic Events’ (RHISE) group.
Conference Themes cover:
1. Immediate Response
- Who responds and why?
- Preparation and management of responders, volunteers
- Personal, professional and community impact- including children, elderly, and disabled
- Impacts on emergency service responders – including health
- Impacts on volunteers
- Living through and responding to a disaster
- Communication and public awareness
- The role of social media
- Policy planning and prevention
2. Early Recovery
- Managing the built environment
- Prioritisation of response and recovery
- The role of health systems –primary care, mental health services
- Providing essential services
- Living through recovery from a disaster- including children, elderly, and disabled
- Communication and public awareness
- Community resilience and recovery
- Policies and planning
3. Recovery over the long haul
- Vulnerable populations
- Physical and psychological recovery of casualties
- Psychosocial understandings – including children, elderly, and disabled
- Maintaining and recreating memories
- Documenting personal experiences
- The role of animals
- Community resilience and recovery
- Living through the rebuild of a town/city
- Psychological effects /long-term exhaustion of responders – care and recovery
- Policy and planning for care of responders
- Economic impacts of disasters on people
- Post-traumatic growth – including new perspectives
4. Resilience
- International models and strategies for building resilience in people
- Measurement and evaluation of resilience in communities and individuals
- Why resilience is a new paradigm and not the corollary of risk management or ulnerability
- Partnerships for resilience
- Organisational resilience versus business continuity
- Post-traumatic growth – including new perspectives
- Communication and public awareness
- Preparation and management of responders, volunteers
The full programme with timings etc., is available here. Registration is required: early registration discount is available until November 29th. View the full conference website here.