Disaster Health Research Lab Team

Nadia Koyratty, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Associate
Chloe Goddard, Undergraduate Research Assistant, paramedic student
Antonio Holmes, Undergraduate Research Assistant & McNair Scholar, biology, EHS, and statistics student

Hilary Budzinski Betley
DHRL Graduate Research Assistant
Hilary is a PhD student in Public Policy with a specialization in Emergency Management. She is a graduate of UMBC's Emergency Health Services Department where she earned a B.S. in Emergency Health Services Management and a M.S. in EHS Administration, Planning, and Policy with a post-baccalaureate certificate in Emergency Management.

Her research interests include disaster response and recovery from extreme weather events and has interned with the Emergency Management Coordinator at the NIH Clinical Center Hospital. She is also a research assistant in the Department of Economics and working with UMBC's Sloan Scholars Program, funded by a $1.3 million grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, to engage underrepresented racial and ethnic minorities and prepare them for doctoral programs in economics.

​Hilary is proud to serve as an administrative officer and an Emergency Medical Technician with the Arbutus Volunteer Fire Department.

Jon Hunter-Cevera
DHRL Graduate Research Assistant
Jon is a 4th year PhD student in Public Policy with a Sociological background. His research interests include social determinants of health, cross-national health, welfare states, sociology of mental health, health and social policy, and emergency management for COVID-19. He is a graduate of the Applied Sociology Master’s program of UMBC’s Sociology Anthropology and Public Health department. During his graduate career he has worked on community-based participatory research projects including need assessments and creating logic models for the Curtis Bay, Baltimore community. He has also worked on a pedagogical study that introduced an ethics curriculum into a first-year computing course.