Selected WorksArticles"State Health Policy for Terrorism Preparedness" Ziskin & Harris American Journal of Public Health, 9/07 Abstract "Public Health Emergency and Disaster Preparedness," book chapter in Public Health and Podiatric Medicine, (Arthur Helfand, Ed.) New Jersey's impending public health-worker shortage. Ronald Caplan, Drew Harris, Mitchel Rosen. NJ Medicine, 2004 Nov;101(11):47-51. OpinionNJ Voices Blog Includes several articles with more added each week. Hospitals' infection control plan won't wash. [op-ed, 8/30/3007] Better to put our money on preventing disease, [op-ed, 8/18/07] Potentially the unhealthiest cut of all, [op-ed, 11/14/06] Jersey looks like a pipsqueek on public health, [op-ed, 3/16/07] PresentationsRemarks at PHLIER Graduation 2007 Public Health Leadership Initiative for Emergency Response: A case-based leadership training program. APHA, Boston, MA. November 7, 2006
| For over 20 years, Dr. Drew Harris has been an author, presenter, educator, consultant and advocate on public health and health care issues. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) School of Public Health. He conceived and directs the Public Health Leadership Institute for Emergency Response (PHLIER), an eight-month statewide fellowship program for emerging public health leaders. This is a program of the CDC-funded New Jersey Center for Public Health Preparedness (NJCPHP) where he is the Assistant Director. His work in preparedness includes managing several training, education and research programs for the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services (NJDHSS), CDC, Middlesex County Schools and the Health Resources Services Administration (HRSA). Dr. Harris is active with several public health and health care organizations and has been involved in statewide public health campaigns and committees to guarantee universal access to health care; control diabetes, obesity and tobacco use; remove barriers to community-based research; and ensure that non-profit health insurance assets are reserved for public health and health care purposes. He is past president of the New Jersey Public Health Association, recent American Public Health Association at-large Executive Board member and current member of the APHA’s Education Board. Other activities include a stint as a radio talk show host for “HouseCalls,” a call-in show that focused on health care and public health topics. |