2023-05-30

IDMR co-organizes multinational workshop on “Typhoon Disaster Waste Management” in Fiji

More than 50 participants, from China, Japan, the Philippines and Fiji, participated in a disaster waste management contingency planning workshop and stakeholder consultation, co-organized by the Lautoka City Council (LCC), Fiji, and the Sichuan University Institute for Disaster Management and Reconstruction (IDMR) on March 23, 2022.After the welcome remarks by Mr. Mohammed Anees Khan, the chie...

2023-05-30

Dr. Glenn Fernandez joins the Future Earth Assembly

Dr. Glenn Fernandez, an Associate Professor at IDMR, has joined the Future Earth Assembly as one of the ten representatives of Early Career Researchers across the world. He is the only representative from Southeast Asia. Future Earth is a global initiative focused on advancing Sustainability Science. It is composed of researchers and scholars from various parts of the world, across different so...

2023-05-30

Dr. Basanta Raj Adhikari contributes to Nepalese Disaster Risk Reduction and Management

Dr. Basanta Raj Adhikari, a distinguished part-time associate professor of the Institute for Disaster Management and Reconstruction, Sichuan University-The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, was nominated as the Coordinator of the Academic and Research-Based Organizations Thematic Group of the National Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (NPDRR), Nepal. He is also faculty member of the Departme...

2023-05-30

Publication of first trial on effectiveness of telerehabilitation after Covid-19 by Chinese researchers

On 26 July researchers from Jiangsu, Hubei, and Sichuan published the first randomised-controlled clinical trial evaluating a telerehabilitation program for patients with Covid-19 in one of the world leading pulmonology journals BMJ-Thorax. Under the leadership of Professors Jian’an LI, MD from Jiangsu Province Hospital/Nanjing Medical University and Jan D. REINHARDT, PhD from Sichuan Universi...