Editor-in-Chief
James J. James, MD, DrPH, MHA
Director, Center for Public Health Preparedness and Disaster Response, American Medical Association

Deputy Editor
Italo Subbarao, DO, MBA
Director, Public Health Readiness Office, American Medical Association

Associate Editors
Elizabeth Ablah, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor, University of Kansas-Wichita School of Medicine

David M. Abramson, PhD, MPH
Director of Research, National Center for Disaster Preparedness, Columbia University

Edbert B. Hsu, MD, MPH
Director of Training, Johns Hopkins Office of Critical Event Preparedness and Response

David Markenson, MD, FAAP, EMT-P
Director, Center for Disaster Medicine, New York Medical College

Frederick C. Nucifora Jr, DO, PhD, MHS
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Stephanie Rosborough, MD, MPH
Director, International Emergency Medicine Fellowship, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Lewis Rubinson, MD, PhD
Senior Medical Consultant for Healthcare Preparedness and Response, Interagency Policy Agreement, Division of Healthcare Quality and Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Raymond E. Swienton, MD, FACEP
Co-Director of EMS, Disaster Medicine and Homeland Security Section, University of Texas Southwestern

Tener Goodwin Veenema, PhD, MPH, MS, CPNP
Senior Fellow in Nursing Policy and Philanthropy, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Center for State Health Policy, Rutgers University

Editorial Board
John Armstrong, MD, FACS, FCCP
Division of Acute Care Surgery, University of Florida Health Science Center

Frederick M. Burkle Jr, MD, MPH, DTM, FAAP, FACEP
Senior Fellow, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Harvard School of Public Health

Cham E. Dallas, PhD
Director, Institute for Health Management in Mass Destruction Defense, University of Georgia and Medical College of Georgia

Linda C. Degutis, DrPH, MSN
Director, Yale Center for Public Health Preparedness, Yale School of Public Health

Kristine M. Gebbie, DrPH, RN
Joan Grabe Dean ( acting), School of Nursing, Hunter College, City University of New York

Gabor Kelen, MD
Professor and Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine, Johns Hopkins University

Thomas D. Kirsch, MD, MPH, FACEP
Director, Center for Refugee and Disaster Response, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

William Lanier, MD
Professor of Anesthesiology, Mayo Clinic

Scott Lillibridge, MD
Assistant Dean and Director, Global Health and Security Program, Texas A&M Health Science Center, School of Rural Public Health

Afaf I. Meleis, PhD, DrPS(hon), FAAN
Margaret Bond Simon Dean of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania

Eric K. Noji, MD, MPH
Chair and CEO, Nogi Global Health & Security

Paul E. Pepe, MD, MPH, FACEP, MACP, FCCM
Riggs Family Chair in Emergency Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Irwin Redlener, MD
Director, National Center for Disaster Preparedness, Columbia University

Charles L. Rice, MD
President, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

Michael VanRooyen, MD, MPH
Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health

Global Correspondent
Stephanie Rosborough, MD, MPH

Correspondent
David Marcozzi, MD, FACEP
Director, Emergency Care Coordinating Center, Office of Preparedness and Emergency Operations, US Department of Health and Human Services

Statistical Editors

Guohua Li, MD, DrPH
M. Finster Chair in Anesthesiology and Epidemiology, Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons

Michael A. Stoto, PhD
Professor, Health Services Administration and Population Health, Georgetown University School of Nursing and Health Studies

Associate Board
Erik Auf der Heide, MD, MPH, FACEP
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, US Department of Health and Human Services

Joseph A. Barbera, MD
Co-director, Institute for Crisis, Disaster, and Risk Management, The George Washington University

Donna F. Barbisch, DrHA, MPH
Director, Institute for Global and Regional Readiness

Steven M. Becker, PhD
Director, Disaster and Emergency Communication Research Unit, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Georges Benjamin, MD, FACP
Executive Director, American Public Health Association

John Brownstein, PhD
Clinical and Public Health Informatics, Children’s Hospital Boston

Arthur Cooper, MD, MS, FACS, FAAP, FCCM
Director of Trauma & Pediatric Surgical Services, Harlem Hospital Center

Asha Devereaux, MD, MPH
Chair, American College of Chest Physicians Disaster Response NetWork

Edward Eitzen, MD, MPH
Senior Partner, Biodefense and Public Health Programs, Martin, Blanck and Associates

Mikael Eliasson, MD, PhD
Strategic Marketing Leader, General Medicine, GE Healthcare

Joshua Epstein, PhD
Director, Center on Social and Economic Dynamics, The Brookings Institution

J. Christopher Farmer, MD, FCCM
Associate Dean, Critical Care Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine

Eric Frykberg, MD
Chief, Division of General Surgery, Shands Jacksonville Medical Center

Richard Garfield, RN, DrPH
Henrik H. Bendixen Professor of Clinical International Nursing, Columbia University

Jeffrey Hammond MD, MPH
Clinical Professor of Surgery, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

D.A. Henderson, MD, MPH
Center for Biosecurity, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

John Hick, MD
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, University of Minnesota

James G. Hodge Jr, JD, LLM
Lincoln Professor of Health Law and Ethics, Fellow, Center for the Study of Law, Science, and Technology, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University

David Joyner, MD
Vice Chairman/CMO, Salus Healthcare International

David Lakey, MD
Commissioner, Texas Department of State Health Services

E. Brooke Lerner, PhD
Department of Emergency Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin

Jonathan Links, PhD
Director, Center for Public Health Preparedness, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Darrell E. Lovins, DO, MPH, FACOFP
Associate Dean, Clinical Sciences, William Carey University

Anthony Macintyre, MD
Visiting Associate Professor, Institute for Crisis, Disaster, and Risk Management, The George Washington University

John Mutter, PhD
Professor of International and Public Affairs, The Earth Institute at Columbia University

Kobi Peleg, PhD, MPH
Director, Israel National Center for Trauma and Emergency Medicine

Cheryl Peterson, RN, MSN
Senior Policy Fellow, American Nurses Association

Steven J. Phillips, MD
Disaster Information Management Research Center, National Library of Medicine, US Department of Health and Human Services

Louis Rowitz, PhD
Professor, Community Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago

Joseph Scanlon
Professor Emeritus and Director, Emergency Communications Research Unit, Carleton University

R. Tom Sizemore III, MD
Principal Deputy Director, Office of Preparedness and Emergency Operations, US Department of Health and Human Services

Robert Ursano, MD
Professor/Chair, Department of Psychiatry, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

Jeb Weisman, PhD
Director of Strategic Technologies, National Center for Disaster Preparedness, Columbia University

Kevin Yeskey, MD
Deputy Assistant Secretary, Director, Office of Preparedness and Emergency Operations, US Department of Health and Human Services

Global Committee
Michael Christian, MD, FRCP(C)
Department of Medicine, University of Toronto

Herman Delooz, MD, PhD, FCCM, FCEM(dist.)
Research Group on Disaster Medicine, Free University of Brussels

Natalia Gudzenko, MD
Laboratory for Cancer Epidemiology, Research Center for Radiation Medicine, Ukraine

Keqin Rao, MD, MPH
Director, National Center for Health Statistics and Information, Ministry of Health, People’s Republic of China

Alessandra Rossodivita, MD, EMDM
San Raffaele Hospital Scientific Foundation, University “Life and Health,” Milan

Nobhojit Roy, MD, MPH
Bhabha Atomic Research Center Hospital Mumbai, India

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