Joint Symposium on eHealth and Technologies for a Resilient Community
against Disasters (2018/4/26)
Topic: eHealth and Technologies for a Resilient Community against Disasters
Venue: Bandung Institute of Technology

On Apr. 26, 2018 (Thu), Prof. Shinichi Egawa of Disaster Medical Science Division, IRIDeS gave
the Keynote Speech in the Joint Symposium on eHealth and Technologies for a ResilientCommunity against Disasters. This symposium was jointly organized by Institute of Electrical andElectronics Engineers, Special Interest Group for Humanitarian Technology (IEEE SIGHT) eHealthand Telemedicine Indonesia and Department of Biomedical Engineering Bandung Institute ofTechnology, supported by IEEE Education Indonesia, IEEE Society on Social Implications (SSIT)
and The Indonesian eHealth and Telemedicine Society (IeHTS). Invited speakers were fromrepresentatives from Indonesia's Health Department Crisis Centre, BNPB (National Body for
Disaster Management), BASARNAS (National Search and Rescue Body), and SPGDT 119(Integrated emergency response system 119).

This became a precious multidisciplinary

symposium with technology experts, educational experts and disaster & emergency practitioners.
Prof. Egawa gave the Keynote speech entitled “Research and Development to make a healthy
community resilient against disaster”. He talked about the concept of disaster risk reduction (Bosai),change of medical needs in disaster, Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, simulation
modeling of disaster response and how to measure the community health. The symposium was awebinar connecting Udayana University in Bali, and Andalas University in Padang, West Sumatera.
Prof. Egawa used answer pad system to collect the opinion of audience in real time, and got highevaluation (54% Very Interesting, 33% Interesting, 13% Difficult, 0% Boring). He ran the actualsystem dynamics and agent-based simulations and suggested that simulation can reproduce thesituation in disaster.
Prof. Egawa and representatives from Indonesian Government had a panel discussion on how
we can educate disaster risk reduction in young generations, how technology and eHealth cancontribute the community resilient against disaster and what is the wish list of technologicaldevelopment. Very active and fruitful discussion was made. Indonesia is one of the model countryof Global Center for Disaster Statistics. The integration of data from Ministries and Stakeholders
are rapidly progressing. The integration of health crisis information system is also available togeneral public to enhance the community resilience. At the same time, the participants recognized
the reliability of the system and possible unexpectable situation in disaster to be able to cope
efficiently. Bandung Institute of Technology and Tohoku University have university level
Memorandum of Agreement in academic exchange. Collaboration in disaster medicine and eHealthwill promote more exchange with strong support ofrom Indonesian Government and IEEE.
Reported by Shinichi Egawa (Disaster Medical Science Division)(continues to the next page)Audience from ITB faculty and students,
Prof. Shinichi Egawa as Keynote SpeakerGovernment representatives and high school
teachers

Group Photo