Sonny Patel
Presidential Fellow- Education
2024* Ph.D in Philosophy,
2017 Master of Philosophy, Kings College London
2009 Master of Public Health, University of Southern California
2007 Bachelor of Arts, Molecular and Cell Biology, emphasis in Cell and Development Biology, Univ Calif Berkeley
- Biography
Sonny S. Patel, MPH, MPhil, is an award-winning researcher and a former National Institutes of Health Fogarty Global Health Scholar. He is a Presidential Fellow in Transcultural Conflict and Violence Initiative at Georgia State University and a Visiting Scientist at Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. He has received his Bachelors from University of California, Berkeley, his Masters from University of Southern California (Public Health and Global Health Leadership) and King’s College London (Psychological Medicine). He has developed protocols, programs, and training to build capacity and knowledge in communities worldwide from subject matters in Public Health, Community Health, and Mental Health to specialized topics in Emergency Management, Community Resilience, and Disaster Risk Reduction.
Patel was named a top 40 under 40 Public Health Catalyst by the Boston Congress of Public Health. He was also bestowed with the Emerald Publishing Literati Award in 2021 for Outstanding Research Paper by the Journal of Disaster Prevention and Management. He was recognized by USAID in India as one of the top DevDisruptors in Mental Health (2020) and by NATO peers in Ukraine as a rising star in Environmental Health and Security in Conflict Zones (2018). Patel serves as a Public Health Executive on advisory committees and board of directors of organizations creating positive social and community impacts, such as The Yogi Berra Museum and Learning Center.
- Publications
Patel, S. S., Neylan, J. H. Bavaro, K., Goralnick, E., & Erickson, T. B. (2022). Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and Explosives (CBRNE) Preparedness for Sporting Event Mass Gatherings: A Systematic Review of the Literature. American Journal of Disaster Medicine (in-review).
Sanderson, D., Patel, S.S., Loosemore, M., Sharma, A., Greenwald, K. and Patel, R. (2022). A review of peer-reviewed published research on corruption and disasters in the built environment. Disasters. https://doi.org/10.1111/disa.12500
Neylan, J. H., Patel, S. S., & Erickson, T. B. (2021). Strategies to counter disinformation for healthcare practitioners and policymakers. World Medical & Health Policy, 1– 9. https://doi.org/10.1002/wmh3.487
Clark-Ginsberg, A., Easton-Calabria, L.C., Patel, S.S., Balagna, J. and Payne, L.A. (2021), When disaster management agencies create disaster risk: a case study of the US’s Federal Emergency Management Agency, Disaster Prevention and Management, Vol. 30 No. 4/5, pp. 447-461. https://doi.org/10.1108/DPM-03-2021-0067
Patel, S. S., Sukhovii, O., Zvinchuk, O., Neylan, J. H., & Erickson, T. B. (2021). Converging impact of the ongoing conflict and COVID-19 pandemic on mental health and substance use disorders in Ukraine. Journal of Emergency Management, 19(9), 63-68.
Brooks, S.K. & Patel, S. S. (2021). Psychological Consequences of the Flint Water Crisis: A Scoping Review. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, 1-11. doi:10.1017/dmp.2021.41. PMID: 1673575.
Patel, S. S., McCaul, B., Caceres, G., Peters, L., Patel, R.B, & Clark-Ginsberg, A. (2021). Delivering the promise of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction in fragile and conflict-affected contexts (FCAC): A case study of the NGO GOAL’s response to the Syria conflict. Progress in Disaster Science, 10, 100172. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pdisas.2021.100172
Conroy, K.M. & Patel, S. S. (2021). Keeping Elderly Loneliness at Bay. Boston University School of Public Health Public Health Post. https://www.publichealthpost.org/research/keeping-elderly-loneliness-at-bay-during-covid/
Clark-Ginsberg, A., McCaul, B., Bremaud, I, Cáceres, G., Mpanje, D., Patel, S. S., & Patel, R.B (2020). Practitioner Approaches to Measuring Community Resilience: The Analysis of the Resilience of Communities to Disasters Toolkit. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, doi:10.1016/j.ijdrr.2020.101714.