Jerome M. Hauer, one of the nation’s true innovators in emergency management and medical/ public health planning and response to emergencies. disasters and terrorism is now the Chief Executive Officer of the Hauer Group. 

The Hauer Group provides consulting services in the areas of Homeland Security, Emergency Management and Public Health and Medical Planning, Training and Response to disasters and assists governments and a variety of companies in achieving their strategic and tactical missions in these areas.

Hauer convinced the Indiana State legislature to Merge the State Emergency Management Agency with Emergency Medical Services Commission, the first State in the nation to bring these two agencies together so that they could better focus on the greatest unmet need in larger incidents, the emergency care of victims.   Hauer and his staff in New York City developed the concept of Point’s of Distribution or PODs, which is now used worldwide.  He had the first Veterinary Response team in the nation, developed the first public health surveillance system in the nation was the first Director of the Mayor’s Office of Emergency Management in New York City where he built an office that was recognized worldwide for its proactive approach to terrorism, and was the first Emergency Response Programs Manager for IBM worldwide.

Hauer was most recently the Director of the Response to Emergencies and Disasters Institute (READI) at The George Washington University. Appointed as the institute’s first director Mr. Hauer was working with the Department of Homeland Security to coordinate and deliver first responder, medical and public health training for the National Capital Region (NCR).  Mr. Hauer was an assistant professor in the School of Public Health & Health Services and the School of Medicine.

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tommy G. Thompson named Jerome M. Hauer as the first Acting Assistant Secretary for the Office of Public Health Emergency Preparedness on June 28, 2002.  In this role, Hauer was responsible for coordinating the country’s medical and public health preparedness and response to emergencies, including acts of biological, chemical, and nuclear terrorism.  The office oversees over $1 billion dollars per year in bioterrorism preparedness grant funding for state and local governments. Before his appointment as Acting Assistant Secretary in June, Mr. Hauer had served as Director of the Office of Public Health Preparedness. Mr. Hauer also served as senior advisor to the Secretary for National Security and Emergency Management during the events of September 11, 2001, and the nation’s anthrax crisis.

Before coming to HHS, Mr. Hauer was named by Mayor Rudolf Giuliani’s as New York City’s first Director of the Mayor’s Office of Emergency Management (OEM) for the City of New York.  During his tenure at OEM, Mr. Hauer was charged with coordinating the city’s planning for and response to natural and man-made events, including acts of terrorism.  New York became the first city to develop a bioterrorism response plan and to do large-scale bioterrorism exercises.

 Before coming to New York City Hauer served as the Executive Director of the State of Indiana’s Emergency Management Agency and Director of the state’s Emergency Medical Services, as well as its Department of Fire and Building Services.  He also served as Co-chairman of the State of Indiana’s Emergency Response Commission and as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the State’s Public Safety Training Institute.  He was on the Congressional Fire Caucus’ Urban Search and Rescue Advisory Committee as well as the National Institute for Urban Search and Rescue Advisory Council.  In 1990 and 1991, he was named Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Central U.S. Earthquake Consortium.

In 1987, Hauer was named Deputy Director for Emergency Management for the City of New York’s Emergency Medical Services.  Four years earlier, Mr. Hauer joined the Biomedical Division of IBM as a clinical research coordinator, later taking responsibility for the company’s Hazardous Material Response, Crisis Management, Fire Safety and Emergency Medical Response Programs.  A series of hazardous materials training videos produced by Mr. Hauer earned him the International Film and TV Critics of New York Bronze Award in 1986.

 He has appeared on hundreds of television and radio shows and has been an on air consultant to ABC network news for 5 years.

 He is also an advisor to the Columbia University’s School of Public Health and the Los Angeles Police Department.  He lectures worldwide and is a member of the Committee on the Present Danger, a non-partisan organization begun in 1950 to address Soviet expansionism and reconstituted again in 1976 to focus on cold war issues.  It returns to address the “current danger” in the wake of September 11^th.   It is comprised of 100 former White House officials, Cabinet Secretaries, Ambassadors, academics, and foreign policy experts.

Hauer has served on the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine’s Committee to Evaluate R&D Needs for Improved Civilian Medical Response to Chemical or Biological Terrorism Incidents, as Consulting Fellow, Potomac Institute for Policy Studies-Center for Emerging Threat and Opportunities, the Board of Visitors National Interagency Civil-Military Institute, and was an advisor to the U.S. Capitol Police and the U.S. Marine Corps’ Chemical-Biological Incident Response Force (C-BIRF).  He has worked with public safety agencies, hospitals and departments’ of health worldwide in preparing for mass casualties and acts of terrorism.  He assisted the governments of New South Wales and Victoria in preparing for the 2000 Olympics

He was selected as one of six scientists to brief President Clinton on biological terrorism and assisted in the World Health Organization’s rewrite of its 1970 monograph on chemical and biological weapons.

Mr. Hauer developed the first technique for re-infusing blood lost by patients following cardiac surgery while a graduate student at Johns Hopkins.  Upon graduation from Hopkins, he spent time at the Maryland Shock Trauma Unit and then joined Beth Israel Hospital in Boston as a Research Associate.  His research focused on auto-transfusion and coagulopathies in trauma and cardiac surgery.  Additionally, Mr. Hauer served on the faculty of the Northeastern University Paramedic Program and was a teaching assistant in the physiology labs for first- and fourth-year students at Harvard Medical School.  He co-directed the first two postgraduate courses in Trauma Management at the Longwood Area Trauma Center of the Harvard Medical School

Mr. Hauer has also served as a volunteer firefighter in Ridgefield, Connecticut, and was a member of the Fairfield County Hazardous Materials Response Team.  He was a captain in the U.S. Army Reserve attached to the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Washington, D.C.  where his research focused on combat casualty resuscitation.

Mr. Hauer has a Master’s degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and a Bachelor’s Degree from New York University.   

He is a member of numerous associations and societies including the: International Association of Fire Chiefs, International Association of Chiefs of Police, American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Society for the Advancement of Blood Management, International Association of Emergency Management, National Association of State Emergency Medical Officials, the World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine, National Fire Protection Association, and the Radiological Threat Coalition.

Mr. Hauer is the recipient of numerous honors, including Outstanding Alumni of the Year from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, the Distinguished Alumni Award from NYU, The New York State Conspicuous Service Medal, the Police Service Award-United States Capitol Police, and the Indiana Commendation Medal for Exceptional Meritorious Service, Legion of Hoosier Heroes Award.  In 1998 he and the Office of Emergency Management were included in the Federal Emergency Management’s Compendium of Exemplary Practices for New York City’s Terrorism Preparedness Initiative.  He is a member of the New York City Police Department’s Honor Legion, and is an honorary Assistant Chief in the New York City Fire Department.

Mr. Hauer has coauthored forty-six (46) publications, two (2) books and two (2) monographs.