Faculty Bios
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Dr. Randy Rowel
is an Assistant Professor
in Morgan State University's (MSU) School of Public Health and Policy.
He received his undergraduate degree at Morgan and his masters and
doctoral degrees from the University of Utah and the University
of Maryland College Park, respectively. At Morgan State University,
Dr. Rowel's research agenda is to examine the cultural implications
of public health emergency preparedness, response, and recovery.
As an Associate Faculty at Johns Hopkins University he works with
their Center for Public Health Preparedness. He currently serves
on the Maryland Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Advisory
Committee and teaches a graduate level class on culture and disaster
at Morgan. In partnership with Maryland Department of Health and
Mental Hygiene, Dr. Rowel recently completed a project that examined
natural disaster experiences of low-income African Americans and
Spanish speaking Latinos populations before, In addition, Dr. Rowel
is the Director of the Why Culture Matters Work Group for Disaster
Studies, an organization that informs public health professionals
and faith- and community-based organizations about the needs of
vulnerable populations during natural and technological disasters.
Lastly, Dr. Rowel serves as an investigator for the Department of
Homeland Security funded National Center for Preparedness and Catastrophic
Event Response (PACER) where he is working to establish the scientific
foundation and principles of the practice of homeland security in
matters of preparedness and response to catastrophic events
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