Irwin Redlener Biography

Dr. Redlener is president and co-founder along with singer-songwriter Paul Simon of the Childrens Health Fund a philanthropic initiative created to develop health care programs in some of the nations most medically underserved urban and rural communities. He is also the director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and he is one of ten members of the congressionally-established National Commission on Children and Disasters.
In his role as pediatrician-child advocate and president of the Childrens Health Fund Dr. Redlener has published spoken and testified extensively on the subjects of health care for homeless and indigent children child abuse and neglect and national health policy. Recognized as a national expert on a range of issues Dr. Redlener also speaks and writes extensively on national disaster preparedness policies pandemic influenza the threat of terrorism in the U.S. the impact and consequences of major natural disasters and related issues.
Dr. Redlener has worked extensively in the Gulf region following hurricane Katrina where he helped establish on-going medical and public health programs. He also organized medical response teams in the immediate aftermath of the World Trade Center attacks on 9/11 and has had disaster management leadership experience internationally and nationally. He is the author of Americans At Risk: Why We Are Not Prepared For Megadisasters and What We Can Do Now published in August 2006 by Alfred A. Knopf Inc.

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