PREPARE Virtual Summit
Location
Online event
Preparedness to Reduce Exposures and diseases Post-hurricanes & Augment Resilience (PREPARE) Virtual Summit Invitation
About this event
We hope you can join the PREPARE virtual summit and contribute to improving preparedness and resilience. This highly active hurricane season in 2020 poses many additional challEnglishes given the complexities added by the COVID-19 pandemic and other local, national and global concerns. Your presence and contributions to this event are very important for this effort. Please reserve your spot here to let us know if you can attend.
The meeting will be conducted via Zoom, which is free to download and very easy to use. You can participate using any device such as computer, tablets, and smartphone with internet or you can dial in with regular phone (audio only).
We will disseminate a summary of the breakout sessions and the summit overall soon after the event through Youtube videos and other means.
We will have Spanish to English and English to Spanish translation services available!
DAY 1: MONDAY, AUGUST 31, 2020 (9:00am-12:00pm)
Welcome and introductions (9:00 am -9:10am)
Goals and Overview: PREPARE project and the Summit(9:10 am-9:25 am)
Individuals’ Preparedness for Hurricane Maria and Health Impact (9:25 am - 9:55am)
Other key results from other investigators (9:55 am -10:15 am)
VMove Physical Activity break (10:15am-10:25 am)
Organizations’ Hurricane Preparedness and Lessons Learnt from Hurricane Maria (10:25 am-10:50am)
Hurricane Season compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic and earthquakes (10:50am-11:10am)
Addressing Natural Disasters in PR: Progress and plans (11:10 am-11:30 am)
Discussion (11:30 am-12:00pm)
DAY 2: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2020 (8:30am-2:30pm)
Summary of Day 1 and Introduction of Breakout Sessions (8:30am-8:40am)
Breakout session 1: 8:45 am-10:15 am
- Organization preparedness messages (ENGLISH)
- Community preparedness messages (SPANISH)
Breakout session 2: 10:25 am -11:55 pm
- Individual preparedness messages (ENGLISH)
- Messages and strategies for policies (SPANISH)
Breakout session 3:1:00 pm -2:30 pm
- Strategies for disseminating to individuals (ENGLISH)
- Strategies for disseminating to organizations (SPANISH)