Established in 2022, Y-EMERGE is a pan-university research institute at York University focusing on science, technology, and human and social aspects of disaster and emergency management. It brings together researchers from several faculties with common interests in disaster and emergency management-related research to enhance people's safety and security.
Y-EMERGE will build on York’s exceptional expertise to develop, grow, and sustain transformative and multidisciplinary research and teaching in transformative disaster risk reduction, emergency preparedness, response, and recovery.
Y-EMERGE DIRECTOR
Y-EMERGE is created to leverage and further York University’s institutional capacity and its globally collaborative network to develop and coordinate transformative and integrative research; foster strong networks of researchers, trainees, and practitioners; develop a robust agenda for funding research and practice; and advance disaster and emergency knowledge translation activities to meet the urgent need to transform thinking, policy, and practice in disaster and emergencies for a more resilient and healthy communities in Canada and globally.
Professor Jianhong Wu
Director of Y-EMERGE
Quick Links
Upcoming Events
- Modelling Fair at York University 2024 Nov 14, 2024
Important Links
- Y-EMERGE publication platform-CJEM
- Y-EMERGE Monthly Newsletter
- PhD Program in Disaster & Emergency Management
- Research Services Office
- Research Documents and Forms
- Funding Opportunities for Research
- Job Opportunities in Research
Latest News
- Exciting Opportunities Available:
- Postdoctoral Research Fellowship: Mechanistic Modelling and Health Economics
- Postdoctoral Researcher position at Saarland University
- Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Modelling of Mpox and other (Re)emerging Zoonotic Threatshttps://www.yorku.ca/research/yemerge/?page_id=1089
Our Mission
Transformative & Interdisciplinary
Y-EMERGE will transform the way societies understand, conceptualize, analyze, manage, and govern crises, disasters, and emergencies. YEMERGE will foster interdisciplinary collaborations & real-world and need-driven research.
Partnership & Community Engagement
Y-EMERGE will transform the way societies understand, conceptualize, analyze, manage, and govern crises, disasters, and emergencies. YEMERGE will foster interdisciplinary collaborations & real-world and need-driven research.
Knowledge Mobilization & Mentoring
Y-EMERGE will transform the way societies understand, conceptualize, analyze, manage, and govern crises, disasters, and emergencies. YEMERGE will foster interdisciplinary collaborations & real-world and need-driven research.