Nicholas Cagliuso

Nicholas V. Cagliuso, Sr., PhD, MPH, a leading international human services scholar-practitioner of more than 30 years, is Clinical Assistant Professor and Founding Director of the Master of Science in Public Health program in the School of Nursing and Health Sciences at Manhattanville University in Purchase, New York. Dr. Cagliuso also serves as Senior Advisor for Emergency Management at MDB, Inc., a Washington, D.C.-based consultancy where he provides expert insights to help government, not-for-profit and for-profit organizations solve their most pressing challenges.

Fueled by his beginnings as an Emergency Medical Technician in Brooklyn, New York in 1991, Dr. Cagliuso has led 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, and Continuum Health Partners.

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 built a team overseeing finance, administration, Continuity of Operations (COOP), planning, operations, training, exercises, resilience and recovery and countless grants. In 2015, he created its System-wide Special Pathogens Program and served as Liaison Officer for the System’s response to the city’s confirmed Ebola patient. From 2015 through 2020, Dr. Cagliuso was founding core faculty of 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 its Hospital Police Academy and, in 2020, he activated the System’s Incident Command System (ICS) in response to COVID-19.

Dr. Cagliuso is an accomplished university faculty member, holding appointments as Adjunct Assistant Professor of Health Administration at New York University’s (NYU) Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, where he teaches online and in-person in New York and Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE). He is also adjunct faculty at Adelphi University, designing and teaching courses in emergency management, research methods and overseeing capstone projects.

He is on the Advisory Board of the Association of Healthcare Emergency Preparedness Professionals (AHEPP) and 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 B.S. 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 Ph.D. 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.