Samueli Institute Convenes Expert Panel to Support Military Resilience

On Thursday, August 8, 2013, Samueli Institute convened a panel of experts to help build a mathematical model that will describe and predict optimal reintegration of military members back into civilian communities and family life. The panel is an important component in Samueli Institute’s research into resilience in an effort help military and civilian communities grow and thrive even as they adapt to stress, trauma and disruptive social change.

In January 2013 Samueli Institute hosted an international meeting of experts who looked at human resilience from multiple dimensions. This meeting, called the Central Evaluation of Resilience Processes (CERP), called together experts who examined how to measure and track resilience building. The CERP meeting included military and civilian experts, including molecular biologists, physiologists, physicians, psychologists, sociologists, modelers, statisticians, public health specialists and wellness and health promotion experts.

The expert panel meeting held at Samueli Institute in August reviewed the results of the analysis generated at the first CERP conference and provided additional insight to the concept mapping of the term “reintegration.” Those insights will be used to inform the development of the research, including a literature review and data extraction, which in turn will be used to build the initial mathematical model. Future meetings will further evaluate and refine the model, and Samueli Institute and its partners will continue to move this effort forward with working groups developing research and tools for tracking and building resilience.

Learn more about Samueli Institute’s resilience research and review scientific presentations from CERP.