The GADMC Awards are a testament to the dedication, innovation, and passion of disaster management professionals around the world. We are proud to support their work and look forward to seeing more of their inspiring contributions in the years to come.

All GADMC presentations including this year’s award winners are available free to view at our recordings page.

GADMC2023 was an enormous success with post-session evaluations consistently rating GADMC as “excellent” and that they would “definitely” recommend the conference to others.

Thanks to the support of our sponsors Four Paws International, American Veterinary Medical Foundation, International Fund for Animal Welfare, Humane Society International, TLAER and the International Public Safety Qualifications Authority, the global event was free to present, attend and view. With such a diverse range of speakers, we also successfully trialed multi-lingual closed captions using the Zoom platform to make the conference even more accessible.

Please visit the submission page for further details.

This prestigious award acknowledges the Global Animal Disaster Management Conference, hosted by Animal Evac New Zealand for its contribution to emergency management through its partnership with expert speakers to create the largest conference of its kind, with over 1500 online delegates registered. The event was free to attend and present thanks to a wide range of sponsors including World Animal Protection, and 45 presentations were delivered and recorded over 10 days. The conference also partnered with the Australian Journal of Emergency Management to see many of the presenters publish their presentations and research in this highly regarded open-access journal. The recorded video presentations are also to be launched at the GADMC Awards Ceremony on 31 July 2021.

The Conference Committee would like to that all its sponsors, and the IAEM and its Judges who conferred the award. The official presentation of the IAEM Award will take place at the IAEM 2021 Annual Conference, October 15-22, 2021, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA and GADMC plan to have a local representative receive the award on the Committee’s behalf.

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Zoom Webinar Login Details

You are welcome to share the URL details below and encourage others to join.

This online event is free to attend.

Please click the link below to join the webinar:
https://zoom.us/j/91484470503?pwd=cTErcUlkdWNrRmh1MUxLd3ZoU3lCUT09 
Passcode: 258447

Free e-learning course

Every registered attendee (i.e. you enter using your email address), will be provided a complimentary enrolment to the World Animal Protection PrepVet Course, hosted by Animal Evac New Zealand.

Our Award Winners

We will be announcing the winners of the following GADMC Awards:

• Best presentation
• Most engaging presentation
• Most popular presentation
• Most thought provoking
• Best emerging researcher
• Special merit

So join us to see who the winners are out an amazing range of speakers we were fortunate to host.

We ask that all presenters attend the ceremony and ensure their login/zoom name clearly identifies them so we can invite the winners to say a few words.

GADMC 2021 Video Release

Yes, after the ceremony all the presentation videos will be made publicly available on our speakers area.

The page is currently password protected and this will be lifted after the ceremony.

Thank you for your support and we look forward seeing you at this event.

AJEM Special Edition

The Australian Journal of Emergency Management Special Edition on Animals in Disaster is also scheduled to be released just prior to the GADMC Awards Ceremony. You can find the subscribe link on the AJEM website to make sure you don’t miss this bumper issue with many of our presenters publishing in it.

Finally

GADMC has been an amazing success and we are pleased to advise we plan to run GADMC next in 2023.

On behalf of the GADMC 2021 Conference Committee, we look forward seeing you online!.

Leslie Irvine is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Animals and Society Certificate Program at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her research during Hurricane Katrina formed the basis for her book, Filling the Ark: Animal Welfare in Disasters. Her other books include My Dog Always Eats First, which examines homeless people’s relationships with their companion animals, and If You Tame Me, which provides evidence for a sense of self among animals. Leslie has also studied animal sheltering, animal abuse, animals in popular culture, and the feminization of veterinary medicine.