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Kimberly GillGraduate Research Assistant BioKimberly B. Gill is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice and a graduate research assistant at the Disaster Research Center at the University of Delaware. Her areas of interest include sociological aspects of disaster preparedness and response; specifically, risk perception, hazard and warning communications and protective action decision-making in the context of disasters. Prior to returning to graduate school, Ms. Gill served as the Program Manager for the Center for Public Health Preparedness (CPHP) at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, National Center for Disaster Preparedness. In this role, she was responsible for working with government and community partners, public health workers, clinicians, and university faculty and researchers to oversee emergency preparedness training and education activities for local public health workforce development. She concurrently served as an adjunct professor of Emergency and Disaster Management at Metropolitan College of New York, teaching sociology courses on individual and collective responses to disaster and systematic approaches to management. From 2002-2004, Ms. Gill served as the Assistant Director of the Office of Mental Health Disaster Preparedness and Response at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. There she was responsible for developing and implementing mental health disaster response protocols for potential terrorist incidents and public health emergencies in collaboration with mental health disaster response agencies, community-based organizations, hospitals, and city, state and federal partners. Ms. Gill received a M.A. in Applied Psychology from Teachers College, Columbia University. She earned a B.A. in psychology, with a minor in sociology, and graduated with honors from Miami University in Oxford, OH. Selected PublicationsMs. Gill has contributed to several articles, most recently as an author of “Disaster Mental Health Training Programs in New York City following 11 September 2001,” Prehospital and Disaster Medicine (2007). Prior to her government service, Ms. Gill worked in psychiatric research, managing clinical trials for the treatment of co-occurring psychiatric and substance abuse disorders. |
