Evolving emergency programme models

Author's Biography

Deane Johanis has worked for over 28 years in the transportation and emergency industries, in both public and private sectors. She has worked in such diverse areas as life safety, occupational safety and health, security and protective services, information systems and project management, emergency planning and management, risk management, insurance and business continuity. As part of the Greater Toronto Airports Authority (GTAA) Safety & Security family at Toronto Pearson International Airport, she is responsible for the development and management of the airport’s overall emergency management programme. Ms Johanis is an accredited member of the International Association of Airport Executives and a certified member of the International Association of Emergency Managers. She is a provincially certified (Ontario) Emergency Management Coordinator and Instructor; a Certified Critical Event Responder and teaching associate (University of Toronto/GTAA); a member of the Association of Emergency Managers; a member of the Disaster Recovery Institute Canada currently working towards certification; and a master’s candidate at York University in disaster and emergency management. In various functions, she has been involved with numerous incidents of note, including September 11th; the 2003 North-eastern American blackout; SARS 2003–04 and the H1N1 influenza pandemic 2009; the Air France Flight 358 crash in 2005; the repatriation of refugees, including Canadian-Lebanese refugees in 2006 and victims of the Haiti earthquake of 2010; and the G8/G20 Toronto Summits in 2010.