Jeff Schlegelmilch to Lead National Center for Disaster Preparedness
On July 1, 2020 Irwin Redlener, M.D. founder and director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness (NCDP) at Columbia University’s Earth Institute will step down as director. He will be succeeded by the center’s current deputy director, Jeff Schlegelmilch.
Redlener will continue to be a major part of NCDP’s efforts, leading programs focused on pandemic preparedness and children in crisis as a senior research scholar, and as director of the new Pandemic Response and Resource Initiative based at NCDP. He will retain his Columbia faculty appointments as professor of pediatrics and health policy and management at the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and Mailman School of Public Health, respectively. Redlener is president emeritus and co-founder of Children’s Health Fund and developer of the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore.