Dale Rose
Dale A. Rose, Ph.D., is a sociologist working with Fritz Institute in San Francisco as a Preparedness Analyst, and at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), as a research specialist. Dale has been actively involved as a practitioner and as a researcher in areas related to emergency services and disaster and public health preparedness since 2001, when he became an emergency medical technician while attending graduate school. He completed his doctoral degree at UCSF in June 2007, writing a dissertation entitled “The Emergence of Biological Threats and Public Health Preparedness”. One chapter from his dissertation has been re-written for inclusion in an upcoming volume on biosecurity, and he has several more writing projects on the drawing board and in the pipeline. His current intellectual interests in the preparedness field are fourfold, including (1) recent orientations towards citizen engagement, volunteerism and the inclusion of NGOs and “vulnerable” populations in preparedness efforts; (2) conceptual elaborations of (and relationships between) disaster and public health preparedness; (3) the development of innovative metrics related to preparedness; and (4) congruences and incongruities between “natural disaster” and terrorism preparedness.
Dale is currently leading a project with Fritz Institute’s Bay Area Preparedness Initiative to “map” the organizational and institutional field of preparedness in the 10 county Bay Area region, with a particular emphasis on community- and faith-based organizations who provide basic services for the area’s most vulnerable populations. The aim of the project is to provide philanthropies and other non-profit organizations (who largely fund direct service providers), as well as government agencies, with a better sense of how NGOs in the region link between themselves and to other organizational and institutional fields, and the ways in which they are or are not prepared to operate following a catastrophic event. The end result will be the production of rich visual, conceptual, network, and social organizational representations of organizational service areas, capacities, linkages, resources and dependencies both within and outside the NGO field. With luck, an article or two might also appear!
Dale is passionate about the following: His family and friends; science fiction; independent cinema; ridiculously long books; foreign languages; typewriter fonts; blogging, and making music. Dale currently co-administers the VSS blog.