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Virginia Murray - the science of disaster risk reduction

Virginia Murray - the science of disaster risk reduction

Medicine and Science from The BMJ

January 24, 201824m 56s

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Virginia Murray, public health consultant in global disaster risk reduction at Public Health England, was instrumental in putting together the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction - an international agreement which aims to move the world from reacting to disasters, to proactively preventing them. In this podcast, she explains what they learned in the process, and why science had to become storytelling, in order to make politicians pay attention. Read the editorial on creating a set of indicators for disaster preparedness.

http://www.bmj.com/content/359/bmj.j5279