Howard Murphy

Background

About Howard Murphy

Having contributed to the development of many of the existing United States’ Homeland Security, Emergency Management, Homeland Defense, and Defense Support of Civil Authorities (DSCA) policies, programs and organizations, Dr. Howard Murphy is considered by many professionals to be a mentor leader. He possesses over twenty-nine years of program management experience with service-oriented companies and the military, specializing in building collaborative relationships and “tiger” teams for the purpose of accomplishing difficult and/or complex missions/operations. Major areas of concentration are complex emergency management, national security, terrorism counteraction, and weapons of mass destruction counter-proliferation programs and operations. Dr. Murphy has over thirty years of emergency management experience at the local, state, national, and international levels, and has worked on policy issues at all levels. He has over thirty-nine years of emergency response experience, including pre-hospital emergency medical service (EMS), special medical program operations, Hazardous Materials and firefighting operations, and special weapons and tactics medical support operations. His medical operations experience includes high-performance EMS management at the Director, Chief Officer, and Commissioner levels, budget analysis and development, risk assessment and management, and special medical operations management, including military and civilian tactical medical operations, and remote medical operations management. With thirty-four years in the U.S. military, Dr. Murphy has led and managed combat, combat support, and combat service support activities, to include medical intelligence and operations programs, and WMD counter-proliferation (combating WMD) programs and response teams.