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The 28th Annual Meeting of Japanese Association for Disaster Medicine

The 28th Annual Meeting of Japanese Association for Disaster Medicine was held on 9-11 March 2023 in Morioka Iwate, one of the most affected areas by the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011. With the overarching theme of ‘Human Resource Development in Disaster Medicine’, over 2000 people attended the discussions and seminars on how to progress disaster medicine through exploring perspectives on the past, present and future.

Dr Ryoma Kayano, Technical Officer at the WHO Kobe Centre (WKC), joined a panel group and discussed ‘Evidence in workforce development in the field of Health Emergency and Disaster Risk Management (Health EDRM)’.