J-RAPID Collaborative Research
Workshops in Turkey
Workshops were held in Turkey on October 24 in Kahramanmaraş City and on October 26 in Hatay City. Those cities were in two of 11 disasters affected by the earthquake in February. We had participants in each workshop who were doctors, nurses, social workers and many others involved in public health working in the local municipality.
Source: Datawrapper/The Independent
Workshop at Kahramanmaras City
Publicized on the website of the Municipality of Kahramanmaras.
Hatay City Workshop: Mustafa Kemal University
The city of Kahramanmaras
Eight months have passed since the February 6 earthquake, and while the rubble has been removed from the city, there are still many large buildings, condominiums, and hospitals that are still left behind, waiting to be demolished. Reconstruction housing has already been constructed in the downtown area, and people have been moving in since the end of November 2023. The residents can live there free of charge for the first two years, after which they would be able to purchase the houses without interest.
Reconstruction Housing in the suburb of Kahmaranmars city
Hatay Province
Immediate after the earthquake (February 2023)
Container and tent hospital set up in front of Hatay Prefectural Hospital (March 2023)
Reconstruction housing built on the outskirts of the city (October 2023)
A debriefing session within the research team was held on November 29, 2023.
Based on the data collected at the workshop, we will present our findings at the conference and discuss with Turkish researchers what kind of concrete plans are needed to rebuild a better resilient public health care system in the region.
On December 4, 2023, we gave a poster presentation at the 10th Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health (SDMPH) conference in Washington, DC, USA.
We presented a poster at the conference.
(Link to the poster)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qYlWT2HHvdcpB8DEHSHQNbmltLORYEIs/view
In August 2023, we received a grant from the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) for J-RAPID Collaborative Research/Survey Program for Urgent Research.
We will UPDATE the progress of the project as it develops.
