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Dr. Michele Devlin is Professor of Environmental Security at the US Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and Professor of Arctic Health and Human Security with the National Science Foundation’s UNI ARCTICenter. She is a Doctor of Public Health, registered nurse, and emergency medical technician. Dr. Devlin’s primary specialty areas include the circumpolar human terrain of the High North, environmental migrants, civil-military response to climate disasters, indigenous populations, and cross-cultural engagement with diverse and underserved populations. Prior to joining the US Army War College, Dr. Devlin was Professor of Global Health at the University of Northern Iowa. She was the founding director of the UNI Global Health Corps and the Iowa Center on Health Disparities, a model agency established by the National Institutes of Health to improve health equity for underserved populations. Michele Devlin completed her doctorate degree in international public health at the University of California at Los Angeles.  She has published nearly 100 articles, reports, and books including “Health Matters: A Guide to Working with Diverse and Underserved Populations”; “Postville USA:  Surviving Diversity in Small-Town America”; and “Tactical Anthropology: A Practical Guide for Emergency Responders in Culturally Complex Communities.”  In addition to her academic and center director expertise, Dr. Devlin has more than 30 years of field experience working with military, health care, law enforcement, public safety, non-profit, and disaster relief organizations around the world.  Dr. Devlin has served as a frequent cultural awareness trainer for the Iowa Department of Public Safety and Law Enforcement Academies. She is an international disaster relief team member with the American Red Cross and has deployed to mass disasters in Haiti and the Philippines.  Dr. Devlin has led or participated in multiple medical missions around the world in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East and is also a wilderness medic with the US National Park Service. She is a member of the California Medical Reserve Corps; the Iowa Disaster Medical Assistance Team; Disaster Mortuary Operational Team; Team Rubicon; and other humanitarian organizations.  Dr. Devlin is the recipient of the One Iowa Award, the Iowa Women’s Hall of Fame Award, the Iowa Civil Rights Award, and other honors for outstanding teaching, scholarship, and service.  She has extensive travel experience in 65 nations around the world, and most recently spent six months living and working above the Arctic Circle on health and human security issues with indigenous Inuit communities.  Dr. Devlin is honored to have served with the US Army Corps of Civilians as a lead social scientist during Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan.