The Public Health Emergency and Disaster Management (PHEDMa) Course Curriculum Development Workshop was conducted by the Health Emergency and Disaster Management Training Center (HEDMaTC) Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya in collaboration with World Health Organization (WHO) and Ministry of Health on 23rd and 24th October 2014 at the Cinnamon Grand Hotel, Colombo.

A total of 15 participants attended the workshop. The participants included 14 professionals/consultants/resource persons of the 1st to 7th PHEDMa programmes who were mostly heads of the institutions/professionals attached to institutions involved in disaster management/training in disaster management, 01 seventh PHEDMa programme participant who was selected based on her spirited participation and contribution in the respective PHEDMa programme and PHEDMa Course Evaluation and Curriculum Review Workshop.