Dr. Jason K. Levy is an Associate Professor of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness at Virginia Commonwealth University. Dr. Levy's research focuses on  security and preparedness issues related to  terrorism, technologic risks, pandemic threats, and natural hazards. He has worked at leading disaster and crisis management centers around the world including the Institute of Disaster Reduction and Public Security  (Beijing Normal University), the Institute for Risk Research (University of Waterloo), the Disaster Prevention Research Institute (Kyoto, Japan) and the University of Hawaii (Honolulu, USA).

 

 Dr. Levy works with emergency managers, security professonals, elected officials, non-governmental organizations and disaster experts in order to enhance national security and disaster resilience. Dr. Levy has received over two million dollars in homeland security and emergency management grants. His interdisciplinary research involves advances in incident command, homeland security and disaster risk reduction.

 

Dr. Levy is currently a Faculty Associate in the National Homeland Security Project an Affiliate Faculty member with the Conflict Analysis Group (University of Waterloo) and an Adjunct Faculty with the Natural Resources Institute (University of Manitoba). His research develops timely, interdisciplinary, and effective crisis management strategies for managing the unexpected and cascading impacts of disasters that cross policy domains, geographic, political, and sectoral boundaries.