Cindy Martinez conducted a wonderful interview with Hannah Myers, an Emergency Management Specialist in Texas, on the specialized skills required to be successful in the field of public health disaster management. They discussed the importance of pursuing opportunities to continue learning throughout a professional career and beyond. Hannah gives an example of training “on-the-job” when she learned a new skill set in weather monitoring and learned to use tools and equipment to measure and forecast the weather. Cindy also questions Hannah on how she applied the skills she learned from the courses she took when she was a student at NYU. Hannah reports that risk communication and project management were the most valuable since she uses these skills daily in her job. The emergence of COVID-19 helped create her position and Hannah recognizes that the field of public health disaster management is constantly evolving and will continue to grow.
Read the full interview here.