Natalie Baker, PhD Candidate

University of California, Irvine
Department of Planning, Policy and Design
202 Social Ecology 1
Irvine, CA
USA 92697
Email: nbaker@uci.edu

Biographical Sketch: Natalie Baker is a doctoral candidate at the University of California, Irvine in the department of Planning, Policy, and Design Department in the School of Social Ecology. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of Central Florida and a Master’s degree in both Tropical Medicine and International Development from Tulane University. The research she presents is part of a National Science Foundation grant that has explored the process of disruption and re-establishment of normalcy in the post-Katrina environment of New Orleans. This project focuses on the provision of mental health care and how those who work in mental healthcare re-negotiated the disrupted post-Katrina environment to continue providing care. The goal of this research was to develop an understanding of how people re-establish work routines in the context of extreme disruption and to assist in addressing the social effects and recovery process of future large-scale environmental and social disasters. Natalie extends this research project in her dissertation, but for pre-disaster contexts, particularly, preparedness processes for a large-scale earthquake in Southern California.

Papers:
3197.0 Facilitating endemic resilience: Bridging disconnections between the public and organizations in disaster risk contexts