Meghan McPherson

Meghan McPherson is the System Director of Emergency Management Education, Training, and Exercises for the Mount Sinai Health System in New York City. In this role, Meghan leads the development, planning, and execution of a robust training and exercise program across the health system. Most recently, she served as the Director of Emergency Management for Mount Sinai Queens Hospital on the front lines of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Prior to joining Mount Sinai, Meghan was Assistant Director of the Center for Health Innovation (CHI) at Adelphi University, served as the program coordinator for emergency management graduate programs, and concentrated her work on community-based social resilience initiatives. Prior to her work at Adelphi, Meghan spent four years as both the Grants Manager and the Energy Assurance Program Manager in the Governor's Office of Energy and Planning in New Hampshire. While in this position, she supported the State Emergency Operations Center during disasters by ensuring the continuity of the state's energy supply. She also worked for James Lee Witt Associates in Washington, D.C. and deployed multiple times to Louisiana to support recovery efforts following Hurricane Katrina.  Additionally, Meghan served as Adjunct Faculty for the University of Southern California and Tulane University Emergency Management graduate programs and served on curriculum and course development initiatives for both programs.  

She is credentialed as a Certified Emergency Manager (CEM), a certified National Healthcare Disaster Professional (NHDP-BC), a Certified Healthcare Provider Continuity Professional (CHPCP), and is the co-founder and co-director of the Pracademic Affairs Journal. Founded in 2020 with support from the Homeland Security Affairs Journal, its mission is to provide emergency management and homeland security practitioners with a welcoming platform to write, explore, analyze, and examine real-world critical lessons learned to improve the resilience of our communities.  

She is a graduate of the Naval Postgraduate School Center for Homeland Defense and Security Executive Leaders Program and was the 2023 recipient of the David McIntyre Homeland Security Educator Award. She was honored in 2011 as one of New Hampshire’s Top 40 under 40.  Meghan earned her BA in political science at the University of New Hampshire and her Master of Public Policy (MPP) with a concentration in national security policy from George Washington University.