Michelle Ritchie
Institute for Disaster Management, Health Policy & Management,
Assistant Professor
Institute for Disaster Management, Health Policy & Management,
Ms. Michelle Ritchie is anAssistant Professor at the University of Georgia’s Institute for Disaster Management and the Department of Health Policy & Management in the College of Public Health. In the years prior to this position, Ms. Ritchie served as an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University’s Disaster Management Program where she taught graduate courses on hazard mitigation and the socio-cultural aspects of emergency management.
Ms. Ritchie is also a Dual Ph.D. Candidate in Geography and Climate Science at Penn State’s Department of Geography in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences. Her dissertation research models the processes supporting household adaptation in social-ecological systems undergoing rapid environmental change, particularly as they relate to ecosystem services and sense of place.
