Natasha Udu-gama

Dissemination Manager, HazInfo

Natasha Udu-gama is Project Dissemination Manager for the Last Mile Hazard Warning System (HazInfo) project for LIRNEasia. In this capacity, she is organizing three international HazInfo dissemination workshops with practitioners and experts in Bangladesh, India and Indonesia.

Her research interests include community-based disaster risk management and appropriate technologies for community-based disaster risk information systems in poor urban areas and information technologies for risk communication. Her practical experience includes community-based disaster risk management at the All India Disaster Mitigation Institute, India and Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement’s Community Disaster Management Centre, Sri Lanka. She has also supported disaster management projects and initiatives in Nicaragua, Bangladesh and Thailand.

Natasha has an MSc in Disaster Management from the Royal Military College of Science at Cranfield University, Shrivenham, UK, and a BA in International Affairs and Development Studies from George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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