Table 2.

The Roles and Case Studies of Participating Universities.

University	Literature Review	Case Studies	Expert Consensus
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China	Overall coordination and delivery of the project Leading the English and Chinese literature review	Overall coordination of case studies and the creation of 3 case studies: 1.Pharmacy workforce in post-conflict sub-Saharan African countries 2.Community health workers for future disasters in Nepal 3.Community disaster education initiatives in rural China	Overall coordination of the Delphi research
Harvard University, USA		4.Health workforce demands in Lebanon 5.Earthquake response teams in Chile	All participants will contribute their expertise in study design and be invited as a panellist as appropriate
Sichuan University, China		6.Logistics Support of Emergency Medical Teams
Tohoku University, Japan	Supporting the Japanese literature review	7.Multidisciplinary conductor type disaster health workforce development program 8.Competency framework of Japan DMAT and specialised assistance teams
University of Hyogo, Japan	Leading the Japanese literature review	9.Disaster relief nursing in Japan
University of Piemonte Orientale, Italy		10.Undergraduate medical training in disaster medicine 11. Emergency Medical Teams (EMTs) Training
University of the Philippines Manila, Philippines		12.Disaster nursing training and management in the Philippines
WHO India, India		13.Hospital preparedness and planning in India
Outputs	Literature review in 3 languages 1 peer reviewed publication 1 international conference presentation	13 case studies 1 peer reviewed publication 1 international conference presentation	Expert consensus recommendations Policy brief