Today I talk about disaster research and emergency management in the COVID era with disaster expert Dave Neal.
 David M. Neal, Ph.D., recently retired as Professor Emeritus in Fire and Emergency Management from Oklahoma State University and is now a Visiting Scholar and Affiliated Scholar with Indiana University South Bend, and an Affiliated Researcher with the Risk and Crisis Research Centre at MidSweden, University.
Bachelor’s and Masters from Bowling Green State University.  DRC 1981-1984 (PhD 1985) PhD in Sociology from The Ohio State University. 
He has conducted disaster research since 1978 and taught his first disaster class in 1979. He has also received funding for his research from the National Science Foundation, Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the American National Red Cross, and the Alabama Consortium on Higher Education among others.  
His academic publications can be found in such journals as International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters, Natural Hazards, Journal of Emergency Management, Disaster Prevention and Management, International Journal of Risk Reduction, Sociological Focus, and Sociologiska Forsking among others.  
He has taught in emergency and disaster management degree programs since 1989. In 2015, he received the Blanchard Award for Excellence in Emergency Management Education.