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Penny Caudill, Administrator, Monroe County
Department of Health
Joan Duwve, Chief Medical Officer, Indiana
State Department of Health
Spencer Grover, Vice President, Regulatory Affairs,
Indiana Hospital Association
Sue Hancock, Senior Project Manager & Strategy
Analyst, Richard M. Fairbanks School of
Public Health
David Hopper, Director of Local Health
Department Outreach, Indiana State
Department of Health
Jerry King, Executive Director, Indiana Public
Health Association
Sandra Liu, Professor, Consumer Sciences,
Director of the Center for Global Urban
Sustainability — Ensuring Sustainable Health
among Underserved of College of Health and
Human Sciences, Purdue University
JoBeth McCarthy-Jean, Director, Indiana Public
Health Practice Council, Richard M. Fairbanks
School of Public Health
Mary McKee, Director, Public Health Practice,
Marion County Public Health Department
Brianna Myers, Office Manager/Birth and Death
Certificates, Tippecanoe Health Department
Carol Rogers, Deputy Director & CIO,
Indiana Business Research Center
Sarah Seward, Administrative Director,
Patient Experience/Service Excellence,
Marion General Hospital
Pauline Shen, Epidemiologist, Tippecanoe
County Health Department
Professional Education
Key Accomplishments
Hazus-MH & FEMA Courses/Workshops
• Polis continues to be recognized as an
acknowledged leader in the development
of Hazus-MH curriculum as well as the
instruction of Hazus and other disaster
management-related courses. During
FY2017, we updated multiple classroom
and virtual courses for FEMA and offered
workshops in Maryland, Washington, Texas,
Arkansas, South Carolina, and Georgia. We
continued to support FEMA’s Emergency
Management Higher Education Program.
Activities include conducting workshops at
the annual Higher Education Conference on
the use of GIS within academia to support
service, research, and teaching. We also lead
a FEMA focus group tasked with identifying
metrics for evaluating and promoting
emergency management programs within
academia as well as collaborations between
the academic and practitioner communities.
Associations/Presentations
• Kevin Mickey, Director of Professional
Development and Geospatial Technologies
Education, presented at three national
conferences and the Indiana GIS conference
on topics related to modeling disasters, data
management and incentivizing
disaster mitigation.
• Mickey, K (Presenter). Indiana Flood
Mitigation Planner (IFMP) Platform: A
Silver Jackets Initiative, Esri International
Users Conference. San Diego, CA.
July 13, 2017.
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