Allison G.S. Knox

Allison G. S. Knox is an EMT and interdisciplinary social scientist with a focus in EMS and emergency management policy. She serves as an Intermittent Emergency Management Specialist with the Department of Health and Human Services.

She also teaches political science, emergency management, homeland security and fire science at the college level. Passionate about EMS policy issues, she often writes about these issues as a contributing editor for Emergency and Disaster Management (EDM) Digest/the Edge. She currently serves as Chancellor of the Southeast Region for Pi Gamma Mu International Honor Society in Social Sciences, as the At-Large Director for the National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians and as a board member of Parents of Infants and Children with Kernicterus.

Previously, Knox worked for a member of congress in Washington, D.C., and a level one trauma center emergency department. She holds multiple graduate degrees. Her work has been published in the International Social Science Review, Domestic Preparedness Journal, EMS1.com and the IAEM Bulletin.