The Higher Education Task Force for Disaster Resilience (HEDE) has been established as a collaborative, multidisciplinary mechanism to support Jamaica's recovery from Hurricane Melissa and to strengthen national resilience to future climate-related disasters.

HEDE brings together the combined expertise of Jamaica's leading tertiary education institutions: The University of the West Indies, The University of Technology, The Caribbean Maritime University, and The Northern Caribbean University, to provide a platform for scientific insights and analysis, policy advice, and civic engagement in post-disaster response and rebuilding.

The National Resilience Dialogue Series is one of HEDE's flagship public contributions to that effort. Conceived as a structured sequence of seven high-quality online panel discussions, the Series convenes Jamaica's most authoritative voices across academia, government, the private sector, civil society, and international development partnerships to examine the full spectrum of recovery and resilience, from infrastructure and energy systems to public health, environmental restoration, and educational continuity. Critically, it also engages the question of how Jamaica finances the resilience agenda it must now pursue.

Each event is designed to interrogate what must be done differently, and to generate the policy-relevant insights that will guide Jamaica's recovery and rebuilding process.

Join us for the inaugural event, this Thursday at 4:00 pm (EST) on YouTube.

YouTube Link: https://youtube.com/live/h8drBeraJAE?feature=share