Joanne McGlown

Joanne McGlown is a senior-level emergency management and healthcare executive with 40 years’ experience engaging with the public, private, for-profit and not-for-profit, non-governmental organizations, and U.S. military sectors consulting and teaching in her specialty areas of healthcare, public health, and medical aspects of emergency and disaster management. She has lectured and traveled internationally for decades in her work as a healthcare subject matter expert, educator, consultant, and speaker. She is a fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives, frequently presenting at conferences and teaching workshops for this professional organization. McGlown is currently on the full-time faculty in the Department of Safety, Security and Emergency Management/Program in Homeland Security in the College of Justice and Safety at Eastern Kentucky University. In addition, McGlown stays fully engaged in the profession of teaching, publishing, and consulting in the field.

With many publications to her credit, she has edited and co-authored two books, published by Health Administration Press, on healthcare disaster and catastrophic event preparedness and is the volume editor of a text on case studies in disaster preparedness (Elsevier, Inc.) scheduled for 2022 publication.

McGlown resides in Birmingham, Alabama, and Richmond, Kentucky.