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IRDR monthly seminar: 5-year Perspective on the Sendai Framework

12 January 2021, 5:00 pm–6:00 pm

In the first IRDR monthly seminar of 2021, Public Health England's Professor Virginia Murray examines health emergency and disaster risk management in the light of the Sendai Framework.

This event is free.

Event Information

Open to

All

Availability

Yes

Cost

Free

Organiser

Professor Peter Sammonds – UCL Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction

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Five years into the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, this seminar will examine Health Emergency and Disaster Risk Management. The seminar will introduce the UNDRR/ISC Hazard definitions and classification report and supplement that will be published in December/January.
 
Ref: Wright N., Fagan L., Lapitan JM., Kayano R., Abrahams J., Huda Q., Murray V. Health Emergency and Disaster Risk Management: Five Years into Implementation of the Sendai Framework. Int J Disaster Risk Sci (2020) 11:206–217 www.ijdrs.com https://doi.org/10.1007/s13753-020-00274-x  

About the speaker

Virginia Murray, Public Health England
Virginia Murray
Professor Virginia Murray FFPH, FRCP, FFOM, FRCPath is Senior Public Health Adviser COVID-19 and 

Head of Global Disaster Risk Reduction at Public Health England. 

Virginia qualified in medicine. In 1980 she joined Guy and St Thomas’s Hospital Poisons Unit and in 1986 was appointed consultant medical toxicologist. In 1989 she started the Chemical Incident Research Programme and was Director of the Chemical Incident Response Service from 1995. From 2003 Virginia worked for the Health Protection Agency’s Centre for Radiation, Chemicals and Environmental hazards (CRCE). She has considerable experience in advising on toxicological and environmental public health aspects of response to acute and chronic chemical and extreme event incidents. In 2011, she was appointed as Head of HPA’s Extreme Events and Health Protection section (since April 1 2013 this was transferred to Public Health England). She is taking forward work on evidence base information and advice on flooding, heat, cold, volcanic ash, and other extreme weather and natural hazards events. In addition, Virginia has been a Coordinating Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation.