Rodney G. Allen teaches in three curriculums at the University of Connecticut , Humanitarian Services Administration, Home Land Security Leadership and Occupational Health and Safety. 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 the insurance industry. Since 1980, he has taught, as 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 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, in concert with other UCONN faculty and departments, in a Graduate level program in Humanitarian Services for which he is the responsible faculty. This program includes course work in emergency response and sustainable development. Course topics include Complex Humanitarian Emergencies, Human Rights, Public Health, Issues in Humanitarian Studies, and Management.