Professor and Director of the Center for Firefighter Injury Research and Safety Trends (FIRST)
Drexel University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Dr. Jennifer Taylor is the Director of the Center for Firefighter Injury Research & Safety Trends (FIRST) and the Arthur L. and Joanne B. Frank Professor of Environmental & Occupational Health. FIRST is a research, education, and practice enterprise at the Dornsife School of Public Health at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA, comprised of data scientists, epidemiologists, organizational scientists, and psychologists. FIRST supports first responders through objective data collection and analysis on safety culture, stress, mental health, and injury. Dr. Taylor received her PhD in Health Policy and Management from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and holds the Certified Professional in Patient Safety board certification.
She is both a country girl and a city kid, having a small farmette on rural Maryland’s Eastern Shore, and a townhouse close to the best cheesesteak place in Philadelphia, PA. Jenn is known for her military precision in packing people, dogs and stuff into her F-150 for all-day beach excursions, and is actively seeking therapy for what is becoming an unhealthly love affair with John Deere.
CE-103: Violence to Firefighters and EMS Responders
Thursday, August 17, 2023
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM