Gloria Newton
Public Health Emergency Plan Development,
Training and Exercise Design
WERR Consulting Group

Gloria Newton’s career spans over 30 years of education and training experience.

In 2001, she transitioned from a Quality Manager and Medical Staff Educator to the public health sector where she developed and conducted profession development training for public health staff.

In 2002, Gloria transitioned to public emergency management where she assumed the CDC BT grant Education and Training role. In this role she collaborated with UCLA to conduct an organization-wide emergency competency training needs assessment, and created a training plan to address identified gaps.

She served as the regional training coordinator for 13 Northern California counties and collaborated with local agencies to develop plans and implement exercises and drills.

She is an Adjunct Faculty member of Shasta College, and serves as a faculty member in the California Preparedness Education Network through which she provides instruction and tabletop exercises to North State healthcare agencies and schools.

Ms. Newton has served on the training advisory group to the California Department of Health Services to help create the Pandemic Influenza and Public Health Law tabletop exercise.

Public Health Experience