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Join the Center for Infrastructure Engineering Studies and the Missouri Center for Transportation Innovation for a talk with Dr. Emad Hassan, assistant professor of civil, architectural and environmental engineering, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 11, in Room 125 Butler-Carlton Civil Engineering Hall or on Zoom. The title of his talk is “Optimal Strategies for Enhancing Health care System Resilience Subjected to Seismic Events.”

This seminar can serve as a professional development hour for engineers. You can register for one professional development hour online.

Light Snacks will be served.

Abstract: 
Natural hazards, particularly earthquakes, disproportionately impact built environments and communities. Comprehending the effects on critical facilities like hospitals proves challenging due to the complex nature of their operational dynamics. As a result, many unanswered questions remain regarding the impact of extreme events on the functionality of healthcare systems and the effectiveness of various strategies in improving health care resilience. In this talk, I will discuss a newly developed health care system resilience framework and its utility in understanding health care functionality under seismic events. The framework is centered around integrating physical system behavior with social and human dimensions in a network setting to quantify interconnected health care facilities' damage, recovery, and resilience. The discussion extends to introducing and evaluating various mitigation strategies and estimating optimal resource allocations to enhance hospital functionality subjected to major seismic events.

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