Nicholas V. Cagliuso, Sr., PhD, MPH
Adjunct Faculty
College of Professional and Continuing Studies
Phone: 516.877.3400
Email: ncagliuso@adelphi.edu
Nicholas V. Cagliuso, Sr., PhD, MPH, a leading international emergency management scholar-practitioner with over 30 years’ experience, is Senior Advisor for Emergency Management at MDB, Inc. As a member of MDB’s senior leadership group, he provides expert insights to select healthcare, public health and emergency management clients.
Fueled by his beginnings as an Emergency Medical Technician in Brooklyn, NY in 1991, Dr. Cagliuso has led key efforts in the Fire Department, City of New York’s Emergency Medical Service, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, NewYork-Presbyterian Healthcare System, Continuum Health Partners and the National Center for Disaster Medicine and Public Health.
A survivor of the 9/11 attacks on New York City – he was on the 86th floor of One World Trade Center – Dr. Cagliuso is the former founding Senior Assistant Vice President for Emergency Management at NYC Health + Hospitals (2014-2020), the nation’s largest municipal healthcare delivery system. He revolutionized the organization’s approach to emergency management, developing and leading its first Incident Command System (ICS) and Emergency Operations Center (EOC) and building a team to oversee finance, administration, Continuity of Operations (COOP), training, exercises, resilience and recovery, planning and countless grants. In 2015, Dr. Cagliuso created the system-wide Special Pathogens Program and served as Liaison Officer for the system’s response to NYC’s confirmed Ebola patient. From 2015 through 2020, Dr. Cagliuso was founding core faculty for the National Emerging Special Pathogens Training and Education Center (NETEC) and served as Co-Principal Investigator (2018-2019). In 2018, he assumed responsibility for system-wide Security and Hospital Police, including the system’s Hospital Police Academy. In 2020, he activated the system’s ICS in response to COVID-19.
Dr. Cagliuso is an accomplished university faculty member, serving as Adjunct Assistant Professor of Health Administration at the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University (NYU) and as adjunct faculty at Adelphi University. For the Abu Dhabi School of Government, he co-designed and taught, “Introduction to Public Policy: Management and Teamwork” both online and in-person in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). He sits on the Advisory Board of the Association of Healthcare Emergency Preparedness Professionals (AHEPP). Renowned for his ambition, Crain’s New York Business Magazine named him to its prestigious “40 under 40” list of New York City’s rising stars (2007).
He is an editorial board member of the Journal of Business Continuity and Emergency Planning (JBCEP) and a peer reviewer for Qualitative Health Research (QHR), Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management (JHSEM) and Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness (DMPHP).
Dr. Cagliuso earned a BS in Fire Science, cum laude, from John Jay College; a Master of Public Health in Emergency Medical Services from New York Medical College; and a PhD in Health Care Administration, with distinction, from Capella University. His doctoral dissertation explored the lived experiences of U.S. hospital emergency preparedness stakeholders through a qualitative, phenomenological lens.