Diana Hamer
Director, Environmental Health and Emergency Preparedness
Diana Hamer is the director for environmental health and emergency preparedness at the National Network of Public Health Institutes, where she oversees the continued growth of projects related to building public health capacity for disaster response, emergent and infectious pathogens, and environmental health issues at the state and local level.
Prior to joining NNPHI, Diana worked at Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center in Baton Rouge LA.
Diana received her PhD in Environmental Health Sciences from Tulane University’s School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine in New Orleans, LA, and her MS in Molecular Biology from Erasmus University Medical Center in the Netherlands.
Her work and research are concentrated in environmental health, particularly environmental modifications and vector disease control, and health care access and utilization.