Leaders in decision support for disaster resilience
Griffith University's applied interdisciplinary research tackles some of the world's most pressing challenges, delivering tailored decision-support solutions to help communities successfully manage threats from bushfires, extreme weather events, including floods and heatwaves, water security and the COVID-19 pandemic.
The University's state-of-the-art facilities are designed to enable improved disaster management and resilience decision support for research and scenario planning, as well as activation training for disaster response and recovery.
Prevention
Working to minimise exposure to disasters, through understanding and predicting the severity of all hazards and consequences for people and infrastructure.
Preparedness
Working with government, industry and communities to identify risks, and to manage the impact and consequences of potential disasters through codesign, learning from the past, projecting scenarios, and predictive analysis.
Response
Working with political and community leaders to efficiently and effectively build and activate emergency management capabilities. These initiatives are in partnership with emergency responders, not-for-profit organisations and communities.
Recovery
Working towards better futures through enabling resilient community outcomes from recovery efforts, spanning ‘build back better’ infrastructure solutions, environmental stewardship, and mental and social wellbeing.
Disaster Management in focus
Learn how the University enables communities to build disaster resilience and practical, real-world solutions.
Griffith Disaster Management news
QLD Disaster Research Alliance appoints Alliance Manager
26 Mar 2024
Project management specialist joins Queensland Disaster Research Alliance.
Risk and resilience specialist to helm QLD Disaster Research Alliance
13 Mar 2023
The Queensland Disaster Research Alliance has appointed Dr Paul Barnes as its first Manager to help coordinate disaster focused research activities,...
Griffith University welcomes new Professor of Practice — Disaster Management
19 Jan 2023
Griffith University’s disaster management credentials have been boosted following the appointment of renowned expert Professor Iain MacKenzie to the...
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March 05, 2024
Practical tips for disaster communication with CALD communities
Griffith University’s Dr Helen Bromhead has published a useful article focussing on making warnings and alerts in disasters and emergencies more easily understood. The article is freely accessible in the Australian Journal of Emergency Management. Helen writes that everyone needs to understand warni...
September19, 2023
2023 Griffith University Disaster Management Network Showcase
Good Disaster Management and Resilience building are not single disciplines. Success is the result of bringing together expertise from many disciplines and working collaboratively to solve complex and complicated problems. Recognising and leveraging the Interdisciplinarity of ‘disaster m...
September19, 2023
Decision support for healthy communities enhances health outcomes
Griffith University researchers are partnering with industry to address the health-related problems people face before, during and after disasters. From improving community resilience for health-related events to future proofing hospitals to be more resilient, researchers from Griffith University’s ...
September19, 2023
Innovative disaster research tackles climate change and the sustainable development goals
Griffith University researchers are taking on problem solving for disaster challenges with curiosity and compassion. Around the world including here in Queensland, many people and assets are located in areas with increasing climate-related risks (floods, bushfires etc). This is an expensive problem ...
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