This seminar in the series will feature Mohamadali Morshedi, a Ph.D. candidate at Lyles school of civil engineering, Purdue university.

Title: Role of social Infrastructure in improving Community resilience and Post-disaster well-being

The COVID-19 pandemic proved that community resilience is not solely dependent on civil infrastructure. Several communities may never reach their pre-pandemic state due to socio-economic impacts, e.g., grief, anxiety, unemployment, etc. In this condition, social infrastructure (e.g., community-based institutions, NGOs, etc.) not only help alleviate post-disaster social distress in communities but also help address tangible needs (e.g., shelter, food, water, etc.). My research focuses on identifying the capacities and needs of the social infrastructure to achieve community resilience, taking community well-being as the recovery metric. This presentation elaborates on the findings of a case study on post-disaster community well-being after Hurricane Harvey.

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