Date: Thursday 6 Nov. 2025

Id 48
Topic Community
Speakers Farooq Azam Rathore Pakistan, Fatema Nawaz Bangladesh, Alaeldin ElMalik Australia, Maya Newman USA

Natural disasters such as earthquakes, floods, and wildfires, as well as human-made disasters like civil wars, result in a high burden of traumatic injuries,including spinal cord injuries (SCI), brain injuries, amputations, fractures, and peripheral nerve injuries. The immediate aftermath of these events requires a coordinated approach to rehabilitation that extends from emergency response to long-term recovery. This workshop will explore the challenges and solutions in disaster rehabilitation by analyzing four major disaster events: the 2005 Pakistan Earthquake, Bangladesh Floods, 2024 California Wildfires, and the Sudan Civil War Crisis.

Chair Farooq Azam Rathore

11H30 Introduction. MARIA PAUL

11H35 PMR Medical Response to the 2024 Bangladesh Floods: What We Learned? Fatema Nawaz

11H45 Impact of climate change on people with the lived experience of disability: Baseline perspectives from 2024 compared to 2025 following the Los Angeles Fires. Maya Newman

11H55 Spinal Cord Injury Management in Disaster Settings: Lessons from the 2005 Pakistan Earthquake. Farooq Azam Rathore

12H05 PRM in Sudan; cruising through and surviving disasters- COVID and War. Alaeldin ElMalik

12H15 Discussion and Q&A