Judy Kruger

Dr. Judy Kruger is a Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP) and an Associate Adjunct Professor within the Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University. She has a background in coordinating public health emergencies, and integrating public health, medical and public safety response agencies, and partners. As an emergency management public health epidemiologist, she is recognized for providing operational guidance, translational research, and technical expertise to help inform priorities and establish quantifiable actions. She has participated in preparedness planning, response and mitigation, and recovery and evaluation domestically and globally.

Dr. Kruger has served the community during disease outbreaks on Task Forces to share strategy and guidance with state and local partners to address preparedness gaps at all levels of government. She has volunteered with Georgia’s All-Hazards Incident Management Team (AHIMT), American Red Cross of Greater Atlanta, and DeKalb County Emergency Management Agency's Community Emergency Response Team.  She has been a first responder for more than 19 public health emergencies such as the Anthrax attack in New York, West Nile virus outbreak, Ebola response, Zika virus, Polio virus, COVID-19, and natural disasters such as hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, and winter storms.

She loves helping students identify how to respond to public health emergencies, recognize key cross-sectorial stakeholders, build resilience to cope with stress and hardship, and apply resilience strategies and tools during and post-deployments. She also strives to help communities recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and embrace new technologies that shape the way we live, and transform how we learn, work, socialize and consume. Dr. Kruger is particularly interested in helping communities become more resilient and robust, promoting safety of our citizens from hybrid threats and homeland security issues, and avoiding supply shortages.