Content and Methodology

Content

The focus area of Resilience and Disaster Preparedness is the links between a wide range of crises and health issues, with particular emphasis on resilience as a means to protect health and well-being before, during, and after disruptive events. We will analyse how individuals, communities, healthcare systems, and societies can build resilience in response to both acute and long-term global health threats.

The workshop covers diverse types of crises – including pandemics, geopolitical conflicts, economic instability, forced displacement, and climate-related disasters – and explores their relationship with human, animal, and plant health, as well as with society and political systems.

This workshop on Resilience and Disaster Preparedness will focus on the following thematic areas:

• Geopolitics in the Arctic
• Health Preparedness in Peacetime, Crisis, and War
• Power Supply, Digital Infrastructure, and Security

This co-creation workshop is part of a workshop series based on the EUGLOH Focus Areas:

• Health in Living Contexts: Urban and Rural Health
• Sustainability and Biodiversity
• Resilience and Disaster Preparedness
• Digital Health, AI & Medical Technology

These focus areas are built on EUGLOH’s shared understanding of global health as a highly interdisciplinary concept. From the alliance’s perspective, addressing global health challenges requires concerted action and development in education, research, innovation, and service to society, directed at equitable health for humans and for the ecosystems in which they live.

This concept of global health addresses all subject areas – including, but not limited to, human and veterinary medicine, natural sciences, life sciences, data sciences, engineering, arts, humanities, and social sciences.

Please note: Registering for this workshop on Resilience and Disaster Preparedness does not automatically enroll you in the other workshops in the series. You are welcome to participate even if you have not attended any of the previous workshops.

Methodology

This workshop will adopt a collaborative and creative approach with a challenge-oriented framing (problem-based learning), using participatory tools in a sandpit-like format – an intensive, facilitated idea lab that brings together participants from diverse disciplines.

The methodology will include components from design thinking, hackathons, innovation sprints, etc.

Note: More information about this workshop will be added to this page after the Easter break.