PUBLIC EVENT
Engineers can play a critical role when disasters strike: from providing access, assessing the safety of shelters for those displaced by earthquakes, to providing safe drinking water, and repairing critical infrastructure in affected communities. Engineers are key to developing bespoke and real-time solutions to the problems that the disaster-stricken communities face. There is a need for trained local engineers with enhanced engineering skills, especially in countries vulnerable to disasters, who can assess and respond to these and other engineering concerns holistically and sustainably.
This webinar is part of the Engineering skills for safety webinar series, and will reflect on learning from recent efforts to better support and empower in-country engineers, including ensuring their own safety and security in challenging environments, with stories from a long-term programme in Uganda funded by Engineering X, Skills for Safety programme, ongoing efforts in Türkiye and Syria, as well as a new initiative focusing on infrastructure reconstruction in Ukraine.
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Katie Bitten
Dr Dorothy Okello
