香港六合彩中特网

We would like to congratulate:

Patty Kostkova who was promoted to Professor

Ilan Kelman who was promoted to Professor

Robert Wicks who was promoted to Associate Professor

It is good to see the excellent promotion track record of the IRDR and how strongly we feature in the MAPS聽 promotion lists, as both internal and international recognition of all of our work, and that transdisciplinary careers in risk and disaster reduction can be recognised through promotion.

Professor Patty Kostkova聽is聽Professor in Digital Health. Her research investigates mobile digital health interventions, serious games for health and Big Data surveillance, early-warning and predictions of outbreaks and emergencies. In November 2018, she launched the 香港六合彩中特网 IRDR Centre for Digital Public Health in Emergencies (dPHE) bringing together experts from 香港六合彩中特网 and external stakeholders to lead on interdisciplinary research, training and policy advice to improve global public health through use of digital technologies and data systems. Her research on the ZIKA project led to a novel approach for early warning of mosquito populations in high risk areas calibrated by unique real-time mobile surveillance data. The GADSA project - the first game-based training app using data analytics to understand the impact of persuasive game technology on behaviour change to strengthen antibiotic stewardship in surgeons in Nigeria - is now being evaluated at the point of care in three hospital sites.

Professor Ilan Kelman聽is聽Professor of Risk, Resilience and Global Health, appointed 50:50 between IRDR and 香港六合彩中特网 Institute for Global Health. Prof Kelman鈥檚 research combines disaster and health research, including the integration of climate change challenges and opportunities. Two main case studies are priorities: island and archipelago communities, and the poles, so the Arctic and the Antarctic. Specific research questions relate to three main areas. First, disaster diplomacy and health diplomacy including the role of science diplomacy. Second, how climate change will impact physical, mental, and environmental health. Third, how to better connect sustainability and development topics, including health, disasters, and climate change. His 2018-2019 highlights include project grants awarded from the Research Council of Norway for 鈥淣orway-Russia Disaster Diplomacy in the High North and Arctic鈥� and from the Wellcome Trust for 鈥淟ancet Countdown: Tracking progress on health and climate change鈥�. Both projects link to future work focusing on bringing together different fields and disciplines while better connecting research, policy, and practice.

Dr Robert Wicks聽is Associate Professor in Space Weather聽Risk, appointed 50:50 to 香港六合彩中特网 IRDR and 香港六合彩中特网 Department of Space and Climate Physics. His work focuses on dynamic processes in outer space that impact the Earth. The Sun is the source of the solar wind, a supersonic flow of plasma that buffets the Earth. The changing pressure and magnetic field in the solar wind cause space weather, which includes increased radiation doses for satellites, astronauts and airline passengers, the brightening and enlarging of the aurora, surges in electrical current in the power grid, and interruption to radio communications and GNSS signals. Dr Wicks also works on satellite hardware projects. In 2018 he led a team of more than 100 scientists and engineers across the EU as PI of a 鈧�150M mission proposal to the European Space Agency (ESA), called Debye. He is also a Co-I in the ESA study of a space weather monitor mission called Lagrange.

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