Yared Abebe

Dr Yared Abayneh Abebe is a Postdoc Researcher at Delft University of Technology. He is mainly involved in the Pandemic and Disaster Preparedness Center (PDPC) frontrunner project Pandemic lessons for flood disaster preparedness. His research focuses on exploring the impact of large-scale floods on healthcare system infrastructure, especially developing flood hazard scenarios, quantifying direct and indirect health impacts and analyzing the effects of various preparedness strategies/measures. As a flood and hurricane risk management expert, it is exciting to learn from and contribute to the PDPC project, which broadens his research portfolio. Yared also values the collaboration with experts in disaster logistics, crisis management and health system governance from TU Delft, Erasmus University Rotterdam and Erasmus MC.