Donald A. Donahue

Dr. Donald A. Donahue is President of the World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine, faculty with the Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians fellowship in disaster medicine, and immediate past Chair of the World Humanitarian Forum Global Health Programming Board. A fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives, Royal Society for Public Health, and International Board of Disaster Medicine, and a senior fellow at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, Professor Donahue serves on the boards of the American Academy of Disaster Medicine, Team fEMR (a non-profit that developed and fields a mobile electronic medical record for austere environments), One Health Lessons, the High Alert Institute; the International Board of Disaster Medicine, and the Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, where he is a past editor for the journal Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness. Previous positions held by Dr. Donahue include professor of global health at University of Maryland Baltimore, Professor and Program Chair of healthcare administration and global health at University of Maryland Global Campus, Deputy Surgeon (Plans and Fiscal Programs) for the U.S. Army Reserve, and internal consultant and department administrator with New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation. Dr. Donahue earned a Doctorate in Health Education from A.T. Still University, a Master of Business Administration from Baruch College, a Master of Jurisprudence (Health Law) from Seton Hall University, and a Bachelor of Science (Sociology and Political Science) from the University of the State of New York.