Nina Cleveland

Dr. Cleveland currently serves as an Adjunct Professor at Tulane University and the Department Chair for Health Science in the School of Health Sciences at Georgia Gwinnett College. She came to this position in 2021 from District 10 Public Health where she served as the Emergency Preparedness and Response Director. Previously she held the position of Associate Director of Emergency and Security Studies at Tulane University. Additionally, she has served as the Practice Coordinator for UGA’s College of Public Health MPH program.  She began her public health Emergency Preparedness and Response career in the North Health District in Gainesville, Georgia, moving from there to Quarantine and Border Health Services at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Her academic accomplishments include teaching Introduction to Public Health, and Disaster Management for the University of Georgia and building the Emergency Management Master’s program at SOPA. She has worked on several grants including the Regional Trauma Advisory Committee HRSA funded grant, NACCHO Capacity Building and Challenge Award grants as well as seed grant funding.  She has published works and presentations.

Dr. Cleveland has been inducted and is active in two professional honor societies: Delta Omega Public Health Honor Society and the Order of the Sword and Shield Emergency Management and Homeland Security Honor Society. She is also a member of InfraGuard Louisiana, the public/private federal partnership. She currently lives in Athens, Georgia, and has four wonderful sons.