MISSION AND VISION
The NYU Center for Public Health Disaster Science applies social science and public health theory and methods to the complex challenges posed to community and individual health and well-being by natural, man-made, biological, and technological hazards and disasters.
The Center’s Investigators conduct original research on population preparedness, response, and recovery; disaster impacts along the life-course; systems approaches to disaster studies; risk communication and decision-making; and the study of resilience. The Center serves as a resource to affected and at-risk communities; to policy-makers and public officials; to disaster and public health scholars; to the media; and to our public health students and the larger academic community at NYU.
THE CENTER’S PILLARS
Pursuit of knowledge
Infrastructure for collaboration
Thought leadership in public health disaster science
Building an academic home of public health disaster scientists and students
Serving as a “Disaster Commons” for sharing what we have learned with communities, practitioners, and policy-makers
MEET THE TEAM
David Abramson, PhD
Center Director
Alexis Merdjanoff, PhD
Director of Research
Robyn Gershon, DrPH
Faculty Associate at NYU
Rachel Piltch-Loeb, PhD
Faculty Associate at CUNY
Chelsea Chobany
Data Manager
Hang Ngo
Doctoral Student at NYU
Katie Lynch
Doctoral Student at NYU
Jamie Epstein
Lab Manager and Web Master
THE CENTER’S LABS
POPULATION IMPACT, RESILIENCE, AND RECOVERY LAB
Led by David Abramson, PiR2 Lab examines the health consequences of disasters, individual and community resilience, and long-term recovery from acute collective stressors.
CLIMATE JUSTICE AND HEALTH LAB
Led by Alexis Merdjanoff, the CJHL Lab examines the health impacts of acute disasters, and how communities grapple with risk perception and decision-making for climate impacts.
COMPLEX PUBLIC HEALTH DISASTERS LAB
Led by Robyn Gershon, the CPHD Lab conducts cutting-edge, public health disaster research to improve our public health disaster preparedness strategies.
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