Terri Rebmann is the Associate Director for Curricular Affairs at the Institute for Biosecurity in the Saint Louis University School of Public Health. She is a PhD Nurse researcher with an emphasis in infectious disease emergency preparedness. In addition, she is board certified in Infection Control. Her past work experience includes research and clinical practice with HIV/AIDS patients and hospital Infection Control. In her current position, she is responsible for the Master’s in Biosecurity Program, including curriculum development, program management, and student advising. She is the Chair of the national APIC Emergency Preparedness Committee. In 2002, Terri joined a task force at Saint Louis University that went to Israel to study disaster preparedness from the Hadassah Medical System. Terri publishes and lectures on bioterrorism, emerging infectious diseases, and infection control practices on a national basis, including participation in bioterrorism exercises and development of bioterrorism-related websites. Her research areas of focus include healthcare and public health professional disaster preparedness and surge capacity issues, most notably hospital and nurses’ infectious disease disaster preparedness and negative pressure surge capacity. She has authored four book chapters, including two in the APIC Text of Infection Control and Epidemiology. She is a member of Sigma Theta Tau International (Delta Lambda Chapter), the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, and the American Public Health Association. She is also a weapons of mass destruction exercise observer/controller for the Texas Engineering Extension Service, a branch of NEERTC, the National Emergency Response and Rescue Training Center.

Education
MPH - Saint Louis University

Courses

• EOH-572 Communicable Diseases & Infection Control

• EOH-573 Disaster Planning

• EOH-583 Legal & Ethical Implications of Disasters

• EOH-581 Biosecurity Practicum
   

Publications