Crisis Management and Emergency Planning

This book supplies time-tested insights to help communities and organizations become better prepared to cope with natural and manmade disasters and the impacts on the areas that they serve. Delving into decades of experience in emergency management and emergency operations, author and editor Michael J. Fagel, PhD, CEM presents advanced emergency management and response concepts not often covered in other publications. The book focuses on broad responses across the spectrum of public health, emergency management, and mass casualty situations-identifying long-term solutions for situations where a community or organization must operate outside its normal operational windows.

Michael Jay Fagel, PhD, CEM, CH S-IV, has been involved in many phases of public service. His professional career spans nearly four decades in Fire, Rescue, Emergency Medical Services, Law Enforcement, Public Health, Emergency Management, as well as corporate safety and security. Since 2003, he has supported many phases of Homeland Security operations in numerous capacities.
Currently, he is an instructor at the Illinois Institute of Technology-Stuart School of Business, Masters in Public Affairs Program, as well as at Northwestern University in the Masters of Public Policy and Administration Program, delivering master level courses in biodefense, terrorism, and homeland security. He also teaches Homeland Security at Northern Illinois University, Benedictine University's Masters in Public Health Program, as well as an instructor at Eastern Kentucky University, Safety Security Emergency Management Masters program. Also, he supported the U.S. Army's SBCCOM at Aberdeen Proving Grounds in their WMD facility support operations for 48 months. He spent 32 months standing up the National Guard Bureau's CERIAC Fusion Center operations. He is a senior instructor at Louisiana State University's National Center for Bio Medical Research and training (NCBRT). He serves as an SME for the National Center for Security and Preparedness, based in Albany, supporting New York State Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services. He has been involved in the training of Fusion Center and Intelligence officials in numerous training classes for DHS. He has delivered several hundred lectures across the nation and written over 200 articles on safety and disaster planning. Also, he served the National Domestic Preparedness Office SLAG team (NDPO) at the FBI in Washington.
Fagel spent 10 years at FEMA in their Occupational Safety and Health Cadre in Washington, responding to incidents and disasters such as the Oklahoma City Bombing where he worked as

Policy Considerations. Response Planning and Preparedness. Public Health Considerations. Whole Community Preparedness. Exercise Design and Development. Vulnerability Assessments and Critical Infrastructure. Special Considerations.