MICRODIS Multi Meetings Workshop

The MICRODIS partners met at the University of Indonesia, Depok Campus in Indonesia for the Multi-Meeting Workshop (MMW) of the “Integrated Health Social and Economic Impact of Extreme Events: Evidence, Methods and Tools” project (MICRODIS) which is funded through the European Union’s Sixth Framework Programme (FP6). The five day workshop was held from the 10-14 of October 2009. The objective of the meeting workshop was to discuss the achievements and the challenges met over the last year as well as to plan for completion of the MICRODIS project and cooperation strategies for scientific outputs from the work done in the 3 years of the project.

Participants of the MICRODIS Multi Meeting Workshop in Depok, Indonesia in October 2009

It was attended by two of VHAI MICRODIS Team members, Shisir Ranjan Dash and Anjai Gupta who shared the organisation’s work progress under the project with the partners and contributed well in the thematic group discussions. During the thematic groups meets there was a discussion on the updates on the progress, experience with the assessment tools, tool adaptation, lessons learned, recommendations for tools, dissemination, etc. It was felt that the results generated by the MICRODIS studies are concrete and patterns are emerging to draw useful lessons from this inter-disciplinary research. The third annual meeting of the project has been decided to take place in Hue, Viet Nam in early August.

Finalisation of the revised MICRODIS Brochure – VHAI MICRODIS Team could accomplish this task through a regular interaction via e-mail with the project partners. The Brochure contains brief information on the project activities; details of consortium partners; accomplishments till date; promotional approach of the MICRODIS project; upcoming activities and; survey details.