(Un)Natural Disasters: Climate Change, Health, and Disaster Relief 🌎
Friends of the Truman Foundation 
Exacerbated by climate change, experts predict extreme weather events and natural disasters will occur more frequently and with higher intensity, resulting in unprecedented levels of destruction across the globe. Heightened threats demand innovative approaches to emergency surveillance and management, particularly in vulnerable areas like coastal communities and the U.S. territories.
As hurricane season churns and global attention turns to COP26 in Glasgow, join Friends of the Truman Foundation for this important conversation: how can we protect our environment while promoting public health and local community resilience?
Our moderator is Dr. Cristina Rumbaitis del Rio (MD 96), Team Lead and Independent Consultant at Oxford Policy Management. Currently based in the UK, Dr. Rumbaitis del Rio has 15 years of experience working on environmental, poverty, and resilience challenges with organizations such as the Rockefeller Foundation, World Resources Institute, and Columbia University’s Earth Institute.
Panelists include:
Dr. Gustavo García-López (PR 04), Professor at the Graduate School of Planning at the University of Puerto Rico – Río Piedras
Omar Pérez Figueroa (PR 11), doctoral candidate at the University of California – Irvine’s School of Social Ecology
Dr. Lori Forman (SD 77), Professor and Development Advisor at the Daniel K. Inouye Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies
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