Lauren Sauer, MS

Professor Sauer is the director of operations with the Johns Hopkins Office of Critical Event Preparedness and Response (CEPAR). She is also a research associate in the Department of Emergency Medicine and a doctoral candidate in health and public policy in the Johns Hopkins Department of Health Policy and Management, where she studies quality of aid in response to disasters and the effects of disasters on healthcare infrastructure. Sauer is also the program manager for the National Center for the Study of Preparedness and Catastrophic Event Response (PACER). She has worked remotely and on the ground for several disaster responses, including Hurricane Katrina, the 2009 California wildfires, the Haiti earthquake, the Pakistan floods, and, more recently, the Ebola virus disease outbreak in West Africa. Professor Sauer focuses on special pathogens response and research capacity nationally and globally.