Rachel Lookadoo is an assistant professor in the Department of Environmental, Agricultural, and Occupational Health at the College of Public Health at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, and serves as the deputy director of the Center for Preparedness and Emergency Response Solutions. She also acts as the Director of Public Health Policy for the Water, Climate, and Health program at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. Lookadoo’s background is as an attorney, and she focuses on the various legal and regulatory issues that can arise in emergency preparedness and response. She specializes in healthcare surge events, isolation/quarantine law, public health impacts of climate change, crisis standards of care, infectious disease response, and general legal preparedness. Lookadoo also conducts emergency preparedness trainings and assessments for public health departments and healthcare facilities nationally. Lookadoo received her Juris Doctor degree from American University Washington College of Law, and her bachelor’s degree from Baylor University.