WKC presents keynote speech at Kyoto University
WKC’s technical lead for Disaster Risk Management, Dr Ryoma Kayano, gave the keynote speech at the Memorial Symposium for the establishment of a new collaborative research area between disaster risk reduction and disaster medicine held by Kyoto University.
He introduced the concept of Health Emergency and Disaster Risk Management (Health-EDRM) as part of WHO’s support to implement the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, and discussed the WHO Health-EDRM Framework and activities of the WHO Thematic Platform for Health-EDRM Research Network (TPRN).
“The preliminary key research priorities, identified during the expert meeting at the Asia Pacific Conference on Disaster Medicine, will be updated regularly through the work of TPRN. We very much look forward to working with local, national and international researchers to improve scientific evidence in Health-EDRM,” said Dr Kayano. Click here to see the preliminary research priorities.
Discussing the new research collaboration were (L-R in the photo) Mr Norio Suzuki (NTT Data Institute of Management Consulting, Inc.), Dr Ryoma Kayano, Dr Masahiro Kurata (Kyoto University), and Dr Shigeru Otsuru (Kyoto University)