.jpg "James Shultz, MS, PhD photo")
Director, Center for Disaster and Extreme Event Preparedness
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
James M. Shultz PhD, MS is a population health scientist and the Director of the Center for Disaster and Extreme Event Preparedness (DEEP Center), Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. He teaches public health courses and advises MD/MPH students in the Department of Public Health Sciences. He is publishing and conducting research on themes of population health science, disaster behavioral health, climate change impacts on population health, complex disaster risks and resilience, global mental health, and structural violence. Dr. Shultz is lead author on a popular textbook, Public Health: An Introduction to the Science and Practice of Population Health, along with Drs. Lisa Sullivan and Sandro Galea. Dr. Shultz holds a PhD in behavioral epidemiology and a Master of Science degree in health behavior research and from the University of Minnesota Division of Epidemiology and Community Health.