Claire Leppold is a research fellow at the Disaster, Climate, and Adversity Unit at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne. Leppold’s research focuses on the impacts of cascading and compounding disasters, including the 2019-20 bushfires and subsequent floods in 2021 and 2022 in Australia. Leppold recently led the national evaluation of the Australian Red Cross Bushfire Recovery Program and currently leads the disasters on disasters stream of research at the University of Melbourne. Prior to moving to Australia, Leppold worked at Minamisoma Municipal General Hospital in Fukushima, Japan, during recovery from the 3.11 ‘triple’ disaster.