Aram Dobalian
Aram Dobalian is the founding Director of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) Veterans Emergency Management Evaluation Center (VEMEC). VEMEC’s work focuses on cutting-edge policy and operations questions that support VA’s emergency management responsibilities – to improve the Nation’s preparedness for response to war, terrorism, national emergencies, and natural disasters by ensuring continuity of veteran care, and to support national, state, and local emergency management, public health, safety, and homeland security efforts. As the Director, Dobalian oversees all of the Center’s activities, including its applied research and evaluation projects. These projects are designed to build an evidence-base to improve the conduct of VA’s emergency management operations.
Dobalian’s has spent 18 years within the healthcare profession which includes practice in private, governmental, and academic organizations. He received his Ph.D. in Health Services Research from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health, and his J.D. from Whittier Law School where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Whittier Law Review. He received his M.P.H. in Health Services Organization from UCLA, and his B.S. in Physics from Vanderbilt University. Prior to joining VA in 2004, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Services Research, Management and Policy at the University of Florida (UF). Dr. Dobalian holds academic appointments in the UCLA Schools of Public Health and Nursing. He currently teaches in the UCLA Executive Master of Public Health (EMPH) program. He has authored numerous peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and reports.
Workshop Abstracts
General Household Emergency Preparedness: A Comparison between Veterans and Non-Veterans
Related Resources from Aram Dobalian
General Household Emergency Preparedness: A Comparison between Veterans and Non-Veterans
With Claudia Der-Martirosian, Tara Strine, Mangwi Atia, Karen Chu, and Michael N. Mitchell
Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, 2011