Reid Jaffe is currently a Grants Coordinator in the Office of Emergency Operations, Florida Department of Health. His main responsibilities include writing and reviewing public health preparedness plans, and assisting others in their specific federally funded preparedness projects. He also staffs an ad hoc Florida Department of Health Disability Task Force, created to improve the ability of Florida’s hospitals to properly serve Florida’s disabled population, meeting more of their needs, in the aftermath of a catastrophic event, as well as in normal times. This entails ensuring that the needs of Florida’s disabled populations are integrated into statewide and regional hospital response plans, pre-hospital EMS response plans, and disaster behavioral health plans. The Task Force also educates and encourages persons with disabilities to be better prepared for emergency situations, and to work with their local emergency managers to better take the needs of persons with disabilities into their planning and response efforts.
Mr. Jaffe previously worked as the primary staff for the Medicaid AIDS Waiver program, then for the Medicaid Home and Community Based Services Waiver program for persons with Developmental Disabilities, and the Medicaid Targeted Case Management programs.
Mr. Jaffe has a bachelor’s degree in Economics and a master’s degree in health planning and health administration, both from the University of Cincinnati.
A 30 year veteran of the Army and Army Reserve, Colonel Jaffe is a graduate of the Army War College, and a veteran of Vietnam, Panama, and Bosnia.
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