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Start Time & Date: |
04/06/2026, 9:00 am |
End Time & Date: |
04/06/2026, 12:00 pm |
Location: |
Palm Beach Community Centre, 1 Thrower Drive, Palm Beach QLD, Australia |
Contact Info: |
GCPHN Events Team Registration from 8:30am |
This is a disaster recovery and resilience event for health professionals and those who work in the recovery space.
Traditionally, disaster preparedness activities and assessments focus on how ready individuals and organisations are to survive hazard events. As disasters become more frequent and severe, there is a growing body of lived experience and research evidence that points to the predictable longer term impact of disasters. These impacts are rarely accounted for in disaster preparedness approaches.
Dr Kate Brady is a Senior Research Fellow at the UNSW How We Survive initiative, former head of the Australian Red Cross National Disaster Recovery program, and the host of ABC’s After the Disaster podcast.
During this workshop, Kate will work with participants to:
Participants are asked to bring a copy of their organisation or jurisdiction’s disaster preparedness plans, recovery plans, and/or any relevant business continuity plans to use in the workshop.
About your presenter
Dr. Kate Brady has had a distinguished career in disaster recovery operations, programming and research. Kate is the Senior Research Fellow for the UNSW How We Survive initiative, is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne and is the Technical Adviser to Australian Red Cross Emergency Services, where she established and led the disaster recovery program for 12 years.
Most of Kate’s work focuses on what people find helpful and unhelpful after disasters. Throughout her career, Kate has had significant influence on State and National emergency management policy and has an international profile in collective trauma, resilience and in disaster recovery programming and policy. Kate is a co-author on the Australian Disaster Recovery Framework, the Australian Community Recovery Handbook and was an advisor in the development of the National Disaster Mental Health Framework.
In 2021, she became the host for ABC’s podcast ‘After the Disaster’, and in 2025 she was invited to do a TEDx talk.
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Registration
By registering for this event you consent to GCPHN using your personal information in line with our Privacy Policy and for your details to be shared with City of Gold Coast and Gold Coast Health.
If you are unable to attend for any reason, please let us know immediately by emailing rsvp@gcphn.com.au to CANCEL your registration, as we may have time to offer your place to someone else.
CANCELLATIONS: Online registrations will be confirmed immediately in our booking system. This is our preferred method of RSVP. To cancel your RSVP please use the email link or call the GCPHN events team (PH. 07 5635 2455). In recent months a number of registrants to our events have failed to attend and have not provided cancellation advice. This often results in others, often on wait lists, being unable to attend. In addition, GCPHN resources are wasted as costs for catering and support staff are still incurred. Each event therefore incurs a cost per person ranging from $65 – $120. GCPHN wishes to continue to provide training and education at no cost to primary care providers, however for these reasons we may have to consider implementing fees to offset our costs in the future. Please ensure you provide at least 2 days’ notice if you need to cancel your registration
COLLECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION: GCPHN collects personal information for the purpose of assisting its activities and functions in the primary health care sector. Your contact details may be used to forward information and notifications from GCPHN. In some circumstances we may provide your information to our funding agency (Dept of Health) or to service providers that enter into legal contracts with us which are bound by confidentiality. For further information on how we manage your personal information see our privacy policy.
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