Faculty

Rodney G. Allen, Assistant Professor

Rodney G. Allen teaches in the Occupational Health and Safety Curriculum and is also developing a Graduate level program in Humanitarian Studies. Dr. Allen has over twenty - five years of experience managing safety and health programs and was employed in this capacity for fifteen years by the General Dynamics Corporation. During his tenure at General Dynamics, he was responsible for industrial safety, health, and training programs at three divisions, including Connecticut Based Electric Boat. Dr Allen has extensive experience in developing and administering programs in disease and injury prevention and health promotion in diverse occupational settings and has served as a consultant to numerous businesses and insurance companies. Since 1980, he has taught, as both adjunct and full - time faculty, a broad spectrum of courses in health promotion and injury and illness prevention at Universities in Illinois and Connecticut.

Dr. Allen has also spent many years in the United States Army and Army Reserve Special Operations Command, Special Forces and Civil Affairs, and has developed an extensive knowledge, from both an academic and practitioners perspective, of the issues surrounding humanitarian emergencies and their prevention and amelioration. He is using this knowledge to develop, in concert with other UCONN faculty and departments, a Graduate level program in Humanitarian Studies. We envision the first offering for this course of study to begin, via the Internet, in the fall of 2001 with a seminar on Complex Humanitarian Emergencies. Other course topics will include Human Rights, Public Health, Issues in Humanitarian Studies, and Applied Management. Our current plan is to award students completing our initial offering of courses a University Certificate in Humanitarian Studies with a further opportunity to earn a Masters Degree in this area of study in the near future.

Dr Allen's undergraduate degree is in Government and Economics. His Masters and PhD are in Health Education from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois.