Michele Wood

Michele M. Wood, PhD, is professor and chair of the Department of Public Health at California State University, Fullerton. She holds a doctorate in community health sciences from the School of Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles, with a minor in sociology. She also holds a master’s degree in community psychology. Her teaching areas are research methods, statistics, and program design and evaluation. Her primary research focus is risk communication for disasters, including preparedness education as well as imminent threat and mobile alerts. Wood has served on and participated in multiple committees of the National Academy of Sciences related to mobile alerts and warnings, and she has served as a subject matter expert for multiple agencies, including the U.S. Geologic Survey, the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency, the American Red Cross, the California Office of Emergency Services, the Fire Protection Research Foundation, Earthquake Country Alliance, and the Southern California Earthquake Center.