Faculty & Staff

Faculty, staff, and their interests:

Krista Brown, MBA, MPH - Program Manager for the Center for Biosecurity, Biopreparedness, and Emerging Infectious Diseases (BBEID)

Interest & Focus Areas: Disaster & Emergency Preparedness, Public Health Management, Cancer Survivorship, Cancer Epidemiology and Population Health

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Keith Hansen, MBA - Co-Director of the Center for Preparedness Education, Co-Director of the Association of Healthcare Emergency Preparedness Professionals, Instructor

Interest & Focus Areas: Crisis management | Public Health & Healthcare Readiness| Crisis Leadership | Disaster Planning

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Ali S. Khan, MD, MPH, MBA - Dean of the College of Public Health

Interest & Focus Areas: Pandemic Preparedness | Emerging Infectious Diseases | Bio-terrorism | Global Health Security

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Deborah Levy, PhD, MPH - Professor, Co-Director for the Center of Biosecurity, Biopreparedness, & Emerging Infectious Diseases

Interest & Focus Areas: Preparedness & Disaster Planning | Public Health & Healthcare Readiness | Emerging Infectious Diseases

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Rachel Lookadoo, JD - Instructor

Interest & Focus Areas: Public Health Law | Disaster Preparedness | Isolation & Quarantine Measures | Climate, Extreme Weather, and Climate Change


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Sharon Medcalf, PhD - Assistant Professor, Center of Biosecurity, Biopreparedness, & Emerging Infectious Diseases

Interest & Focus Areas: Disaster and Emergency Preparedness | Public Health & Healthcare Readiness

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Kristine Sanger - Co-Director of the Association of Healthcare Emergency Preparedness Professionals, Director of Training and Exercise Programs

Interest & Focus Areas: Disaster Preparedness for Hospitals, Long Term Care Facilities, and Home Health Agencies | Exercise Design | Healthcare Evacuation | Infection Prevention and Control | Conference Coordination
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Leslie Scofield, MPH - Director of First Responder Education

Interest & Focus Areas: Participant Centered Education and Adult Learning | Virtual Course Delivery | Strategic Planning | Disaster Preparedness


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Phillip (Phil) Smith, MD - Emeritus Faculty, Professor of Internal Medicine

Interest & Focus Areas: Biopreparedness and Biocontainment | Infectious Diseases in Long Term Care Facilities | Hospital Infection Control


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CBBEID Collaborators:

Jesse E. Bell, PhD - Claire M. Hubbard Professor of Health and Environment

Interest & Focus Areas: My research explores the relationships of extreme weather, climate variability, and climate change...


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Matthew Beacom, MD

Interest & Focus Area: AgHealth Nebraska: a novel preventive health services model for Nebraska farm families...


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