The Collaborative on Extreme Event Resilience (CEER) is a group of public health researchers, including faculty, staff, and students, who collaborate with policymakers, practitioners, and community-based organizations on projects that seek to improve community resilience to disasters and climate change. We use various research approaches including community-engaged and epidemiological research methods, to generate evidence and implement and evaluate risk-reduction interventions. Visit our research page to learn more and see examples of current and past projects.
Mission
We are public health scholars committed to working with policymakers, practitioners, and community-based organizations to collaboratively generate evidence, as well as implement and evaluate evidence-informed policy and practice, to improve resilience to disasters and climate change.
Vision
CEER creates and translates evidence to support equity-focused public health policy and practice that reduces disaster and climate risk and enhances community resilience.
CEER’s Commitment to DEI and Anti-Racism
CEER is a group of public health scholars committed to working with policymakers, practitioners, and community-based organizations to collaboratively generate evidence, as well as implement and evaluate evidence-informed policy and practice, to improve resilience to disasters and climate change. As the health impacts of disasters and climate change are disproportionately experienced by BIPOC and other historically marginalized communities, we believe that we can only achieve our mission by actively and relentlessly considering and dismantling the systems and structures that have created and sustain racism through our research and practice. As a lab group, we believe that an antiracist approach is central to our inclusive, working ethos.
We stand in solidarity with BIPOC and LGBTQIA communities. Together with the North American Alliance of Hazards and Disaster Research Institutes, we condemn violence and racism in all its forms. We will work to ensure that CEER research is grounded in and respectful of cultural norms, and has tangible benefits to the communities that participate.
We will conduct and share rigorous research that carefully considers the historical legacies and contemporary effects of systemic racism, economic and gender inequality, and other forms of oppression and injustice. As we strive to root out systemic inequality, inequity, and racism, we will promote evidence-informed policies and practices that ameliorate pre-existing disparities and injustices rather than amplify them.
CEER will not tolerate racism, discrimination, harassment or bias in our collaborative. We provide support and care for BIPOC/LGBTQIA and other marginalized colleagues by linking to UW anti-racism resources on our website and promoting an inclusive working environment. We promote the work of BIPOC/LGBTQIA scholars through our speaker series and scholarly pursuits. We strive for a working culture where all people belong and are valued. Diversity, equity and inclusion is the lens through which we evaluate our success.
University of Washington Anti-Racism Resources
UW School of Public Health: Commitment to Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
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Prospective Students
CEER welcomes graduate and undergraduate students interested in conducting a practicum, capstone, research rotation, or internship with CEER to reach out via ceer@uw.edu.
Prospective Practice-Based CollaboratorsÂ
CEER partners with local, state, and federal government agencies as well as community-based organizations. For practitioners seeking to collaborate with CEER on a practice-based project, you can reach out via ceer@uw.edu.
Prospective Faculty Collaborators
CEER collaborates with faculty from disciplines including public health, public policy, engineering, medicine, and others to address interdisciplinary challenges. For faculty seeking to collaborate with CEER, you can reach out via ceer@uw.edu.
Contact Us
Tania Busch Isaksen, PhD, MPH at tania@uw.edu
Nicole Errett, PhD, MSPH at nerett@uw.edu