CEMHS and Me

This semester I am interning with the Center for Emergency Management and Homeland Security (CEMHS), here at Arizona State University. The Center was founded in Fall of 2013 by three individuals in an effort to bring an emergency management and homeland security (EM/HS) research center and academic program to ASU. My daily activities with this organization vary greatly from day to day. I have been tasked with assisting in many different projects such as infectious diseases s well as human/sex trafficking, including others. My responsibilities include assisting with research in infectious diseases, human trafficking, the need for emergency management simulation labs, etc. One advantage to this is that I am getting a hand in a little bit of everything that the CEMHS is doing, and getting the opportunity to make connections and network with many people from very different backgrounds, who all seem to have a common goal - serve the public and make the world a better, and safer, place. As the semester continues, I will be tasked with continuing to assist in all areas as needed and providing support with research, editing/proofreading presentation documents, etc. I am getting the opportunity to experience, firsthand, just how diverse the EM/HS field really is and how many issues, such as infectious diseases, may present many difficulties and challenges that I have never really considered before. This internship is really challenging the scope and creativity of my thinking in an effort to see that almost anything can become a EM/HS issue.