Co-Directors
Nicole Errett, PhD, MSPH
Dr. Errett is a disaster researcher, public health policy analyst and faculty member in the University of Washington’s Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences. She has over 10 years of experience working on public health emergency preparedness and management in local, state, federal government and academia. Her community relevant, translatable research focuses on the use of public policy to enhance health outcomes during and after a disaster.
Tania Busch Isaksen, PhD, MPH
Dr. Busch Isaksen is an exposure scientist and faculty member in the University of Washington’s Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences. She has over 30 years of environmental public health experience working in public, private and academic settings. She maintains an active, practice-based research portfolio focused on measuring impacts from extreme heat on health outcomes, climate change risk communication methods, and public health adaptation planning and response.
Staff
Naomi Cutler, MS, Research Coordinator
Naomi Cutler joined the Errett Research Group in 2024 as a Research Coordinator. She has a BA in History from Middlebury College and an MS in Behavior, Education, and Communication, and Geospatial Data Sciences from the University of Michigan’s School for Environment and Sustainability. Her interests lie in how communication methods, particularly visual and spatial tools, can support communities in self-determining their futures around climate disasters. Some of her past work includes researching workplace resilience to climate disasters, mapping wildfire risk and vulnerability in Oregon, and monitoring forest health metrics in the Northeast.
Matias Korfmacher, MPH, MUP, Research Coordinator
Matias Korfmacher is a Research Coordinator with the Errett Research Group, having previously worked with the team as a graduate research assistant while pursuing his Master’s in Public Health and Master’s in Urban Planning at the University of Washington (‘24). Prior to this, Matias worked as an environmental consultant for the EPA and specialized in climate impacts on public health. His current research interests center around using place-based approaches and new and emerging technologies to integrate underrepresented perspectives into disaster planning. Matias has extensive experience with drone-based research, geospatial analysis, youth engagement, planning around coastal hazards, and federal and state environmental health policy.
Evan Mix, JD, MPA, Research Scientist
Evan is a public policy researcher and a research scientist for the Collaborative on Extreme Event Resilience. He was previously an attorney. Evan’s research interests include tribal-federal relations and the roles Indigenous communities play in hazard management. He is trained in a variety of quantitative and qualitative research methods, including content analysis, semi-structured interviewing, and assorted statistical data analysis techniques.
Kathleen Moloney, MPH, Research Scientist
Kathleen Moloney is a Research Scientist with the Collaborative on Extreme Event Resilience. Her research interests include the intersections of disasters and social determinants of health, improving the ability of public health practitioners to prepare for, respond to and recover from disasters, and conducting community-engaged disaster research. She has training in a variety of qualitative and quantitative public health research methods and skills, including epidemiology, conducting semi-structured interviews and focus groups, survey administration, and data management and analysis. In addition to her research experience in the hazards and disaster field, she worked as a public health practitioner in disaster response, including as a Disaster Program Specialist with the American Red Cross and Disaster Relief Coordinator with Catholic Charities.
Juliette Randazza, MPH, MPA, Research Coordinator
Juliette is a Research Coordinator with the Errett Research Group. Her educational background is in biology, environmental public health, and public policy and she has training in various qualitative and quantitative research methods including content analysis, survey development, and mapping. Prior to joining ERG, she worked as the Climate and Environmental Justice Research Fellow at a statewide coalition of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color-led groups representing communities hit first and worst by the impacts of disasters and climate change. Her work at this coalition centered on community resilience and the intersections between environmental and climate disasters and economic justice, co-governance, and worker rights. Her work and research interests focus on disaster preparedness and workforce training, extreme heat policy, environmental and climate justice advocacy, and community resilience. Her current work focuses on building community resilience to disasters through technical assistance, community education, co-learning, and co-creation.
Anna Reed, MPH, Research Coordinator
Anna is a research coordinator with the Collaborative on Extreme Event Resilience. Her research interests include community resilience to climate change, environmental justice, and community-engaged research and policy development. She has training and experience in a variety of public health research methods in qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis, including conducting semi-structured interviews and focus groups, survey administration, and content analysis. Prior to pursuing her MPH at UW’s Community-Oriented Public Health Practice program, Anna worked in various corners of the food system, including on small farms and in garden and cooking education, where she taught hands-on gardening skills and developed food justice and climate literacy curricula.
Mary Hannah Smith, MCP, AICP, Research Coordinator
Mary Hannah is a research coordinator with the Center for Disaster Resilient Communities (CDRC). She trained as a city planner and is proficient in small group facilitation, GIS, and qualitative research methods like content analysis and focus groups. Her research with CDRC has explored the involvement of public health in adaptation planning initiatives, extreme heat and cold in the Pacific Northwest, climate and health activities in Pacific Island Jurisdictions, and jurisdictional risk assessments among local health jurisdictions in Washington. Her current interests center around extreme weather, climate change adaptation, natural hazard mitigation, and land use.