Disaster and humanitarian experts
The Population Health Initiative has completed an initial mapping of the expertise of the University of Washington’s faculty and staff relative to disasters and humanitarian-related activities. Our initial goals with this mapping are to:
- Increase the level of internal and external awareness of the university’s collective expertise to address these challenges.
- Help boost the range of interdisciplinary collaborations occurring within and beyond the university.
This resource can be searched and sorted, and we have also captured additional information about university centers and institutes.
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Built Environment
20 experts across 2 categories
Communication
25 experts across 4 categories
- Media/Social Media
- Risk communication/public information
- Training (for general public, professionals, technical audiences)
- Information Systems
Community Planning
24 experts across 5 categories
- Food Systems
- Logistics
- Camp Coordination and Management
- Environmental Justice
- General community planning/organization
Economic and Financial Impacts
1 experts in 1 category
Environmental Sciences & Engineering
36 experts across 4 categories
Health
31 experts across 5 categories
- Mental Health
- Chronic diseases (including nutrition)
- Pandemics and infectious diseases (including impact of disasters on diseases, surveillance, etc)
- Emergency Health (including disaster medicine, trauma and injury, healthcare emergency management, mass care)
- Public health emergency preparedness and response
Monitoring and Evaluation
2 experts across 0 categories
Natural Hazard Type
51 experts across 6 categories
- Weather-related hazards (hurricanes, floods, etc)
- Earthquakes/Tsunamis
- Wildfires
- Volcano
- Landslides
- Drought
Policy, Politics, Ethics and Law
22 experts across 5 categories
- War, civil unrest and terrorism
- Humanitarianism (including historical perspectives)
- Refugees, Internally Displaced Persons and migration
- Humanitarian law
- Regional/local policy