Floyd (Rusty) Russell
Floyd Russell is a research program coordinator and homeland security liaison in the Office of the Vice President for Research and Economic Development at West Virginia University.
Current areas of work include community resilience, energy systems resilience, public health preparedness and response, mass population displacement due to high consequence events, and internal and external partnership development. Russell works with the Resilient Communities Initiative to develop resiliency in rural areas and small cities for catastrophic event mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery. He coordinates the Resilient Communities Research Consortium partnership that is developing tools for working with communities to build resilience. He also works with the Energy Systems Security Program to develop energy system situational awareness and energy assurance tools.
Russell has served as a faculty member in the Department of Community Medicine and Director of the Virtual Medical Campus. His previous work focused on understanding the communication and coordination needs of state and local level responders to mass disaster events and developing training and knowledge sources for planning and preparedness. He developed collaborative projects in terrorism and disaster planning and preparedness with funding from DHS and the HHS/HRSA Bioterrorism Curriculum Development and Training Program. Content areas included hospital emergency management for WMD events, campus security, forensic epidemiology, inclusion of health care in emergency response coordination, and preparedness planning for higher education campus executives.
Workshop Abstracts
A Dashboard Framework for Community Resilience Assessments: Resilient Communities Research Consortium
Related Resources from Rusty Russell
Key Indicators of Resilience
Working paper, July 2010