Building an Interdisciplinary Team for Disaster Response Research: A Data ‐Driven Approach

This article examines three teaming mechanisms for interdisciplinary disaster response research, includingad hoc and/or grant proposal driven teams, research center or institute based teams, and teams oriented by matching expertise toward long ‐term collaborations. Using hurricanes as the response context, it further examines several types of critical data that require interdisciplinary collaboration on collection, integration, and analysis. Last, suggesting a data‐driven approach to engaging multiple disciplines, the article advocate s building interdisciplinary teams for disaster response research with a long‐term goal and an integrated research protocol.
Source: Risk Analysis - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Tags: Perspective Source Type: research