Richard Krieg is Visiting Professor at Texas State University, a member of the Austin Texas InfraGard Chapter and InfraGard’s national Healthcare and Public Health Sector Security and Resiliency Group. He authored the Healthcare and Public Health Chapter of the InfraGard National Disaster Resilience Council’s Powering Through publication. He is Editor of the Journal of Critical Infrastructure Policy.
He has over 35 years’ experience in the Healthcare and Public Health sector, health policy and community emergency preparedness. Among other projects, with FEMA funding, he conducted a full-day exercise for approximately 200 health and public health leaders from Northern Virginia to Baltimore to consider the impacts to public health and health delivery systems of a 10K nuclear detonation in Washington DC. With FEMA funding, he worked with local jurisdictions to develop fallout-related sheltering-in-place guidance for first responders, public schools and citizens. He recently evaluated a full-day tabletop exercise for emergency managers, first responders, the Coast Guard, health care personnel and others on a CME caused regional power outage held in the Harris County, TX (Houston) Emergency Operations Center.
Dr. Krieg is former President of the Maryland-based Horizon Foundation and also served as a Foundation Trustee. Established by Johns Hopkins University, the Foundation advanced emergency management practice in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. He retired as founding President after 14 years.
He served as Health Commissioner and First Deputy Commissioner of Health for the City of Chicago. In that capacity, he oversaw the City’s paramedic corps and was chief planner and incident commander for health emergency issues. The Chicago Department of Health is the nation’s largest local health department, with a staff of approximately 800 people and an $130 million annual budget. It operates the City’s largest ambulatory care system, handling one million patient visits annually.
He is former Executive Director of Chicago’s Institute for Metropolitan Affairs, an urban policy and community action center serving the 6-county Chicago metropolitan area. In that role, he provided capacity building consultation to numerous critical infrastructure organizations, including a strategic plan for Cook County Hospital. He concurrently was the Arthur Rubloff Professor of Public Administration at Roosevelt University in Chicago. He formerly served as Associate Dean of the University of Illinois School of Public Health.
For four years, Dr. Krieg held the position of Director of Policy Analysis and Planning for the Metropolitan Chicago Healthcare Council – the association of 102 Chicago-area hospitals. He worked directly with hospital CEOs and CFOs on system-level policy development, program implementation and joint service initiatives. He previously served as Director of Policy and Programs for the Illinois Law Enforcement Commission.
He received his doctorate from the University of Chicago where he majored in health policy and administration. He holds an MA degree from the University of Chicago’s Harris Graduate School of Policy Studies. He is a graduate of the Executive Management Program at the Harvard Business School.
