These recent events demonstrate the need for improved scientific understanding of interactions between natural hazard, society and disease outbreaks, and capabilities to better model the complexities of risk from multi-hazard and disease outbreaks, and improve understanding of synergies and trade-offs between disaster risk reduction measures.
This session aims to contribute to improving our understanding of the co-occurrence of disasters and disease outbreaks, and the challenges for disaster risk management. We invite abstracts studying all aspects of this co-occurrence, cascading impacts, including health impacts that follow from natural hazards, challenges that arise from the co-occurrence of natural hazards and diseases, challenges and lessons for adaptation management facing natural hazards and diseases.