Event Resources

Please find the workshop presentation slides here

Event Description

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:

• identify predictable disaster impacts (with a focus on health and well-being)
• help identify strategies that will support how participants can prepare for the aftermath of disasters.

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

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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.