Deborah Levy, PhD, MPH
Since joining UNMC in 2016, Deborah Levy, PhD, MPH, has held several leadership roles and now serves as a professor in the Department of Epidemiology in the UNMC College of Public Health. She previously was chair of the department from 2016-19 and held the Tim Hawkes Chair in Cancer Prevention and Population Science. Dr. Levy served as co-director of the UNMC Center for Preparedness and Emergency Response Solutions.
At the Centers for Disease and Prevention, Dr. Levy served in various roles over 20 years, including as chief of health care preparedness activity in the Division of State and Local Readiness of the Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response; acting director of the Division of Strategic National Stockpile of the Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response, and as a senior epidemiologist in several divisions of the National Center for Infectious Diseases.
She also was a senior research analyst at Westat Inc. and a project director in the Department of Neuroscience at the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science in Los Angeles.
- 1996, PhD, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Epidemiology, Baltimore, Maryland
- 1983, MPH, Epidemiology, University of California, Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA
- Public Health and Healthcare Preparedness and Emergency Response
- Health Security
- Infectious Disease Epidemiology
- Long-Term, Home Health, and Hospice Care Planning Guide for Public Health Emergencies
- Coordinating Pediatric Medical Care During an Influenza Pandemic Workbook
- Pandemic Influenza Pediatric Office Plan Template