Kimberly Gill, PhD
Research Associate Professor
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901 Walnut Street, 10th Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Kimberly Gill, PhD
Research Associate Professor
RESEARCH & PRACTICE INTERESTS
Stress and Cardiovascular Health
Health Equity and Social Determinants of Health
Behavioral Health and Health Services Research
Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR)
Program Evaluation and Outcomes Research
Community Recovery and Resilience
Education
PhD, Sociology, University of Delaware
MA, Applied Psychology, Columbia University Teachers College
BA, Psychology, Miami University
Publications
- Opportunities to Strengthen the National Disaster Medical System: The Military-Civilian NDMS Interoperability Study
- Community Resilience: Toward a Framework for an Integrated, Interdisciplinary Model of Disaster
- A disaster by any other name?: COVID-19 and support for an All-Hazards approach
- The COPEWELL rubric: A self-assessment toolkit to strengthen community resilience to disasters
- Top-down and bottom-up measurement to enhance community resilience to disasters
Teaching
Bioethics
Integrative Research Seminar
Research Methods
Biography
Dr. Kimberly Gill is a sociologist with extensive research, evaluation, teaching and applied experience in population health. She serves as Research Associate Professor for Thomas Jefferson University’s College of Population Health and holds a joint faculty appointment with the Main Line Health Center for Population Health Research (CPHR) at the Lankenau Institute for Medical Research.
Prior to this role, Dr. Gill served as Senior Research Scientist III for the National Disaster Medical System (NDMS) Pilot Program at the National Center for Disaster Medicine and Public Health (NCDMPH), Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS). Dr. Gill also served as Research Associate Scientist for the Disaster Research Center at the University of Delaware. There she worked on COPEWELL, an evidence-based model and collection of tools that address community resilience in the context of disasters.
Earlier in her career, Dr. Gill served as the Program Manager for the Center for Public Health Preparedness (CPHP) at Columbia University’s School of Public Health, National Center for Disaster Preparedness and as the Assistant Director of the Office of Mental Health Disaster Preparedness and Response at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. She received a MA in Applied Psychology from Teachers College, Columbia University and her PhD in Sociology from the University of Delaware.