CAPT Jill Shugart, MSPH, REHS, CP-FS, is currently working as a Senior Environmental Health Specialist in the CDC/NIOSH Emergency Preparedness and Response Office in Atlanta, Georgia and is the NIOSH Emergency Responder Health Monitoring and Surveillance™ (ERHMS™) Program Coordinator. Over the past 15 years, she has worked on a variety of environmental and occupational health and safety issues both domestically and internationally with multiple federal, state, local, and Tribal entities in the Indian Health Service (IHS), the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). She has prepared for and responded to several public health emergencies, including, hurricanes, floods, oil spills, Ebola, Zika and other infectious disease outbreaks.