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Conference Workshops 2023

Academia’s Perspective
Community Resilience from Academia’s Perspective - The Ethics of Resilience Research: Redistributing Power Under Extreme Conditions

Plenary Student Panel
Student And Young Scholars’ Panel: The Future of Resilience

Discussion among City/County Judges
County Government Visions of Community Resilience Convened by Christian Corrales
Hidalgo County Judge Richard F. Cortez
Edinburg Mayor Ramiro Garza
Harlingen Mayor Norma Sepulveda

Community Resilience
Community Resilience from the First Responder/Emergency Management Perspective

Community Resilience
Community Resilience from the Advocacy Perspective - Lawyering in extreme conditions
Conference Workshop 2024

Sharing Leadership Towards Community Resilience
Converging UTRGV Emergency Management and the Broader First Responder Community: Sharing Leadership Towards Community Resilience.

Climate Change
Plenary Panel Climate Change, Vulnerable Populations, and the Future of Preparedness

Exploring Challenges to Public Health
The COVID-19 pandemic and the challenges it posed to communities around the world demonstrated the necessity of enhancing the resilience of communities to infectious disease outbreaks.

Pathways to Successful Transdisciplinary Collaborations
Inter and transdisciplinary “team science” approaches promote innovation and improve the efficiency of research, collaboration and training.

The Risk Communication Imperatives
Everyone can participate in infectious disease prevention. One way to do this is to follow recommendations from health authorities. Barriers to following recommendations include confusion when guidelines change, risk perception and tolerance, and lack of trust in authority figures.