George S. Everly, Jr., PhD, FACLP, FAPA, joins us today on the Faculty Factory to help close out 2020 with some deeply profound wisdom on resilience and leadership.

This is a very timely discussion as Dr. Everly discusses the psychological impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. He also discusses what he’s learned from studying previous pandemics, such as in Hong Kong with SARS and later H1N1 in Singapore.

“The psychology of a disaster (or pandemic) can be as important as the virulence of the pandemic itself,” he said. “We have to be careful to not just focus on the virus itself, but also how people react to the virus.”

Dr. Everly is a professor in the Department of Psychiatry in the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the Department of International Health in the Bloomberg School of Public Health.

He’s had a long and impactful career on psychological crisis, disaster response, and resilience. He has spent more than 40 years traveling the world during his career, and has served as adjunct faculty in the FBI National Academy, FEMA, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

He is the author of over 20 books on stress, psychological crisis intervention, disaster, mental health and human resilience, and over 100 peer reviewed journal articles.