A brief report of the 3^rd Global Summit of Research Institutes for Disaster Risk Reduction: Expanding the Platform for Bridging Science and Policy Making held at the Disaster Prevention Research Institutes (DPRI), Kyoto University, Uji Campus, Kyoto, Japan from 19 to 21 March 2017 has been published in the International Journal of Disaster Risk Science June 2017, Volume 8, Issue 2, pp 224-230.