The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (CFDA 47.041) has awarded a $417,406 Project Grant to the University of California, Berkeley to investigate mechanisms that lead to severe injuries during earthquakes and develop new interventions to reduce seismic risks. The 3-year research project aims to enhance the granularity of earthquake damage and injury modeling to better predict medical impacts, leveraging both numerical experiments and field data collection. The researchers will create a high-resolution agent-based model to evaluate the effectiveness of hard (e.g., building retrofits) and soft (e.g., early warning) interventions in protecting diverse populations in vulnerable buildings, with a focus on communities in California. This interdisciplinary work integrates civil engineering and disaster medicine to advance technical insights for seismic risk reduction. No subawards are planned for this effort.