Richard Serino

Serino currently serves as a Distinguished Senior Fellow at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, which he joined in 2014. Prior to Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Serino was the former Deputy Administrator of FEMA. Over his esteemed career, he has received more than thirty-five local, national, and international awards for public service and innovation, including the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative's (NPLI) Meta-Leader of the Year Award for his work in the response to multiple disasters and Super Storm Sandy. Before FEMA, Serino served as Chief of Boston EMS and Assistant Director of Health at the Boston Public Health Commission. In this role, he bolstered the city's response plans for major emergencies, including chemical, biological, and radiological attacks. Serino also led citywide planning for H1N1 influenza.

Serino attended Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government Senior Executives in State and Local Government program in 2000, completed the Kennedy School's National Preparedness Leadership Initiative in 2005, and graduated from the Executive Leadership Program, Center for Homeland Defense and Security at the Naval Postgraduate School.