Jonathan Sury
Jonathan Sury
Biography:
Jonathan Sury, MPH CPH is a second-year DrPH student and is a Project Director for Communications and Field Operations at the National Center for Disaster Preparedness (NCDP), Columbia Climate School, Columbia University. He holds a master of public health degree in Environmental Health Sciences with a concentration in Environment and Molecular Epidemiology from the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University. He has a keen interest in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and their use in disaster preparedness and recovery. Presently, he contributes to a variety of disaster-related research at NCDP, including community resilience and child-focused disaster preparedness, community attitudes to informal shelter planning in Puerto Rico, developing a Disaster Hazards Index, creating a child-centered community model and index of disaster recovery, evaluating the unanticipated consequences of pandemic flu, determining racially and ethnically appropriate emergency messaging, analyzing the long-term disaster resiliency and recovery issues in the US following Hurricane Katrina, the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, and Superstorm Sandy, and the measurement and mapping of social vulnerability and the role of place and space in disaster recovery. In addition to he work at NCDP he co-founded and is the executive director of a small non-profit which supports adolescent girl programming in Sierra Leone.
Research Interests:
Child protection; Mental health; Implementation Science; Global health policy; Humanitarian response; Disaster recovery and resilience
Proposed Dissertation:
Child-focused metrics of community disaster recovery