Jonathan Abrahams

Jonathan is Director of the Monash University Disaster Resilience Initiative in the Monash University Accident Research Centre. He collaborates with local, national and international partners on transdisciplinary research, education and projects that promote inclusion and integration of community resilience, health emergency and disaster risk management, and climate change adaptation. In the WHO Health Emergencies Program, Assoc Prof Abrahams played leading roles in advancing risk-based and inclusive approaches to global policy, guidance and capacity development with health systems and the whole-of-society partners, and advising the negotiations of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030. He is co-chair of the WHO Health EDRM Research Network and serves on the World Meteorological Organization Joint Study Group on Integrated Health Services. His previous experience includes Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (Bangkok, Thailand), AusAID, Emergency Management Australia, and the Department of Veterans’ Affairs. Public health; Disaster risk management; Climate change; Humanitarian action; Transdisciplinary research; Transdisciplinary Learning; Community resilience; Mental health and psychosoical supoort; Emerging technologies; Resilient hospitals and health facilities; International development; Fire risk management

Hospital-admitted drowning in Victoria, Australia, before and after the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic (2025) - Berecki-Gisolf, J., Matthews, B., Calverley, H., Abrahams, J. & Peden, A. E., In: Injury Prevention. Correction to: Mapping study for health emergency and disaster risk management competencies and curricula: literature review and cross-sectional survey (2024) - Hung, K. K. C., MacDermot, M. K., Hui, T. S. I., Chan, S. Y., Mashino, S., Mok, C. P. Y., Leung, P. H., Kayano, R., Abrahams, J., Wong, C. S., Chan, E. Y. Y. & Graham, C. A., In: Globalization and Health. Developing and Testing a Household Resilience Survey for the Corangamite, Colac Otway and Surf Coast Shires: Final Report (2024) - Wright, B., Mata, F., Kunstler, B., Keating, A., Abrahams, J., Cross, S., Fisher, J. &