Emergency Management Specialist

scohen75@jhmi.edu

Sarah Cohen is an emergency management specialist for the Johns Hopkins Hospital Office of Emergency Management (JHHOEM). Prior to joining JHHOEM, Sarah worked in international emergency response with USAID, filling multiple leadership and incident command roles to coordinate the delivery of food assistance, health care, potable water, and other relief services to people around the world affected by conflict, disease outbreaks, and natural hazards like floods and volcanic eruptions.

Her key accomplishments include managing humanitarian programs that provided life-saving assistance to millions of people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC); acting as the information coordinator for the U.S. Government’s Ebola Virus Disease Disaster Assistance Response Team in Goma, the DRC; and leading a team of 40 communications professionals analyzing and reporting on emergencies worldwide. Sarah has federally recognized certifications in project management and contract/grant oversight.

Sarah earned a BA in environmental sciences from the University of California, Berkeley. She also graduated with a Master of Public Health degree from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2017. Before commencing graduate school, Sarah was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Benin, focusing on food security projects in two rural communities.