Elizabeth Dunn, MPH, CPH

Instructor II, College of Public Health

Contact Info

• Office: CPH 2134
• Academic Email: eadunn2@usf.edu
• Academic Phone: (813) 396-9403
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Education

Discipline

Global Disaster Management, Humanitarian Relief, and Homeland Security

Specialization

• Community Resilience & Local Capacity Building
• Food System Resilience & Humanitarian Food Supply Chains
• Disaster Preparedness for Vulnerable Populations
• Refugee Resettlement & Migration
• International Humanitarian Assistance & Mass Care
• Human Security & Anti-Human Trafficking
• Continuity of Operations & Business Resilience Planning
• CERT Leadership, Volunteer Coordination & Community Engagement

Biography

Elizabeth Dunn joined the University of South Florida College of Public Health in 2012, supporting the Community Engaged Homeland Security and Emergency Management undergraduate program and serving as the Assistant to the Director of the Global Disaster Management, Humanitarian Relief, and Homeland Security (GHH) program. She began teaching as an adjunct instructor and now serves as an Instructor II, where she delivers courses in international humanitarian relief, disaster management, and homeland security, integrating applied learning and community partnerships into the classroom experience. Elizabeth’s professional background bridges business management, program development, and public health with fieldwork spanning international economic development and post-conflict recovery, as well as local disaster planning and community preparedness initiatives. Her scholarly interests center on evaluating disaster management systems, with a particular focus on vulnerable populations, community engagement, and cross-sector collaboration. She is committed to advancing the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) through experiential and service-learning approaches, and her work also examines refugee integration and health, alongside the influence of the built environment and social conditions in at-risk neighborhoods. Elizabeth currently serves in several leadership roles at the national and community levels, including Lead of the FEMA National Experiential Learning and Leadership (ELL) in Emergency Management Special Interest Group (SIG), Track Lead for Community Preparedness and Resilience for the National Homeland Security Conference (NHSC), Director of the USF Community Emergency Response Team (CERT), and Vice President of the Board of Directors for the Refugee and Migrant Women’s Initiative (RAMWI). Through these roles, she works to strengthen community resilience, enhance emergency preparedness capacity, and promote inclusive, interdisciplinary approaches to disaster management and humanitarian response.