James Shultz is a population health scientist and associate professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, where he holds multiple leadership roles. First, Shultz is the director of the Center for Disaster and Extreme Event Preparedness. Second, Shultz is the director of P3H: Protect and Promote Population Health in Complex Crises. Third, Shultz is the disaster public health lead for the Global Institute for Community Health and Development. Shultz teaches core public health courses in both residential and online formats and a disaster and emergency public health elective in the public health graduate programs at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. Shultz publishes and conducts research on themes of population health science, disaster behavioral health, protecting medically high-risk patients from disasters, climate change impacts on population health, complex and compounding disaster risks and resilience, global mental health, and structural violence. He is the lead author of a popular textbook, Public Health: An Introduction to the Science and Practice of Population Health 2nd edition, along with Lisa Sullivan and Sandro Galea. Shultz holds a PhD in behavioral epidemiology and a Master of Science degree in health behavior research from the University of Minnesota Division of Epidemiology and Community Health.