Lecturers

Distinguished Guest Lecturers

Dr. Stephen J. Atwood

Regional Advisor for Health & Nutrition
UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office
Bangkok, Thailand

Dr. Atwood has been actively involved in emergency response activities since the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and was recently on special assignment as Director of Emergency Operations for the tsunami recovery effort in Indonesia. He advises the UNICEF Country Offices in the East Asia and Pacific Region in the formulation and application of health, nutrition, water, and sanitation policies. A graduate of Dartmouth Medical School and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine who has specialized in pediatrics, Dr. Atwood also represents UNICEF in global and regional forums for programmatic and strategic collaboration in health initiatives.
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Dr. Philip R. Berke

Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of City and Regional Planning
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Dr. Berke’s
current research projects address domestic and international issues in
the areas of land use planning, natural hazard mitigation, and
sustainable development. He has served as a consultant on land use and
environmental planning to state and local governments, as a hazard
mitigation specialist for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and
as a consultant on disaster recovery to international disaster relief
organizations.
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Dr. Emile A. Okal

Professor of Geology
Northwestern University

Dr. Okal
has extensive field experience in post-tsunami investigation and
survey, including, most recently, as leader of two teams that assessed
the effects of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami in Madagascar and Oman. In
addition to authoring nearly 200 scientific publications, he
collaborated in the development of TREMORS, an automated distant
earthquake detection system that allows the estimation of tsunami risk
and is now deployed in Hawaii, Indonesia, and Chile.
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