Draft:Avoidable Deaths Network
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The Avoidable Deaths Network (ADN) is a global network working towards avoiding human deaths from natural hazards, naturally triggered technological hazards and human-made disasters in low- and middle-income countries.[1][2]
The network's founders and leaders are Professor Nibedita Ray-Bennett and Professor Hideyuki Shiroshita. Professor Ray-Bennett is an academic at the University of Leicester and an associate professor in risk management.[3] Professor Shiroshita is an academic an Kansai University whose field is disaster mitigation and safety education.[4]
The Avoidable Deaths Network's aim is to reduce avoidable disaster deaths. The network comprises more than 900 members, who are a mixture of experts, practitioners and researchers. ADN achieves its goal through research, improving policymaking, developing networking and assisting in knowledge exchange.[5][2]
The Avoidable Deaths Network is a member of the Santiago Network[5] and its work aligns with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction Priority 1 'Understanding Disaster Risk'.[2]
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[edit]- ^ D. T. E. Staff (November 30, 2023). "UK university academic is lending expertise to cut India's snakebite deaths". Down To Earth.
- ^ a b c "Avoidable Deaths Network (ADN) | Sendai Voluntary Commitments". sendaicommitments.undrr.org. July 4, 2024.
- ^ "International Awareness Day for Avoidable Deaths returns for its second year | News". University of Leicester. March 11, 2024.
- ^ "Kansai University Faculty of Social Safety Sciences". Kansai University Faculty of Social Safety Sciences.
- ^ a b "Santiago Network". santiago-network.org.