April 16: Community resilience and preparedness webinar
Many communities continue to feel the aftermaths of the oil spill. Glenn Morris will discuss the Healthy Gulf, Healthy Communities project and the work that has been done with the impacted communities. In addition, he will discuss findings and the potential they have on bettering preparing communities for other disasters.
Register hereAs the five-year anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill approaches, the Healthy Gulf, Healthy Communities team of researchers are hosting a summit to share research results and discuss the continued impacts of the disaster.
The public is welcome to attend the April 13 event and engage with a panel of experts as they discuss lessons learned for future disaster and recovery efforts. The summit will begin at 6 p.m. at the Bob Graham Center, located in Pugh Hall at the University of Florida.
The five-year, $6.5 million project seeks to address the environmental, economical and emotional health concerns in Florida and Alabama Gulf Coast communities as a result of the oil spill.
Angela B. Lindsey, a PIE Center researcher and assistant professor in the Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences, helped plan the event as part of the Healthy Gulf, Healthy Communities community outreach and dissemination team.
“We tried to bring in a variety of speakers that could speak to many facets of the spill and what the future holds for preparing for future technological disasters,” she said.
The Five Years Later: Lessons Learned from the Deepwater Horizon Disaster Summit is co-sponsored by Healthy Gulf, Healthy Communities, the PIE Center and the Emerging Pathogens Institute.
“This event is open to the public and we encourage all to attend,” Lindsey said. “We hope to have a great turnout of students.”
For more information about the summit, visit healthygulfcoast.org.
The speakers:
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Glenn Morris
Primary investigator, Healthy Gulf, Healthy Communities
Director, Emerging Pathogens Institute
Glenn Morrisleads the Healthy Gulf, Healthy Communities team. He is director of the University of Florida Emerging Pathogens Institute and has worked in public health fields for more than 30 years.
Dr. Morris started his public health career at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention where he was an epidemic intelligence service officer and focused his attention upon cholera and other water- and food-borne illnesses. He has served on four National Academy of Sciences expert committees dealing with food safety, and in the mid-1990s he worked with the Food Safety Inspection Service in the U.S. Department of Agriculture on the first major revision of food safety regulations since 1906; he currently is a member of the Food and Nutrition Board of the Institute of Medicine.
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Duke Walker
Commander
U.S. Coast Guard
Duke Walker currently serves as Commander, Coast Guard Sector Mobile. His previous assignment was Chief of Response for the Eighth Coast Guard District, and also served as the Federal On-Scene Coordinator for the Deepwater Horizon Spill of National Significance Response. As the Executive Officer for the Coalition Naval Advisory Training Team under Multi-National Forces-Iraq from 2004-06, he was embedded with the Iraqi Navy and Marines as a senior advisor, mentor, and trainer.
From 2009-10, he served as Commodore, Coast Guard Patrol Forces Southwest Asia (CTG 55.1), leading all Coast Guard forces in support of U.S. Central Command Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom. In 2010, he reported for duty to the Eighth Coast Guard District in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he served as the Chief of Resources and the Chief of Response. He was designated as the Federal On-Scene Coordinator for the Deepwater Horizon Spill of National Significance from November 2011 until June 2013, when he assumed command of USCG Sector Mobile.
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Richard Powers
Professor, UAB School of Medicine
Director of the Bureau of Geriatric Psychiatry
Medical director of Alabama Dept. of Health and Mental Retardation
Richard Powers is a psychiatrist and neuropathologist who received his medical degree from the University of Kentucky in 1976. He practiced psychiatry and neuropathology at the University of Alabama School of Medicine, where he held the rank of Professor prior to retirement in 2011. While at UAB, Powers also served as the Medical Director for the Alabama Department of Mental Health and was involved in disaster mental health responses to Hurricane Katrina and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. He has subsequently practiced within the Veteran’s Administration Health Care system as an Associate Chief of Staff for Geriatrics and Extended Care as well as in the Outpatient Mental Health Clinic caring for veterans with PTSD. He continues to teach at the University as an Adjunct Professor in the departments of pathology and psychiatry.
He has given numerous talks about the physical and psychological aftermath of disasters and he recently participated in the Gulf Research Project Community Resilience and Health Workshop that was sponsored by the National Academy of Science in 2014.
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Marc Roy
Adjunct Professor, Disaster Resilience Leadership Academy
Tulane University School of Social Work
Marc Roy is the Director for Disaster Management Services for Matrix New World Engineering, a national engineering firm headquartered in New Jersey with additional offices across the U.S. Recent projects for Matrix include the Deep Water Horizon Oil Spill cleanup, wildlife protection and coastal restoration in Louisiana, as well as shoreline debris removal in New Jersey and the dismantling of the iconic Jersey Shore roller coaster following Superstorm Sandy.
As Chief of Staff for FEMA’s Louisiana operations in 2006-07 following the initial federal administration team sent in after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, he supervised several thousand employees and contractors in the rebuilding and recovery operations, which delivered billions of dollars of financial aid to the State of Louisiana. In 2007-08, Roy was selected as the Regional Director for Gulf Coast Rebuilding within the Office of the President of the United States and the US Department of Homeland Security.
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Greg Strader
Executive Director
Be Ready Alliance Coordinating For Emergencies
Greg Strader is the founding Executive Director of BRACE, the Be Ready Alliance Coordinating for Emergencies. In January 2012 he was named a “Champion of Change” by the White House for the accomplishments of BRACE during 2010 and 2011. That recognition resulted from BRACE being recognized as a “best practice” and model for other communities in Florida for the Organization’s response to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill.
Strader deployed to the Florida State Emergency Operations Center for 13 major disasters as the American National Red Cross Liaison to the State Emergency Response Team. He has served as a subject matter expert and evaluator for state hurricane exercises at the invitation of the Florida Division of Emergency Management.
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Is the event April 13 or 16? There are two different dates on this page…or are there two separate events?
Thanks!
Good catch! We’re highlighting two separate (but related) events. The summit is on the 13th, then we are hosting a webinar with Dr. Morris and Dr. Lindsey on the 16th.