J. Sam Hurley, MPH, EMPS, NRP, currently serves as the Senior Deputy Director of the Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Administration (HEPRA) at DC Health.

He is returning to DC Health after four years in the State of Maine where he served as the State EMS Director during the COVID-19 pandemic and the mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine as well as leading a multi-year strategic planning process for the development of the EMS system in Maine. Prior to his time in Maine, Mr. Hurley served as the EMS Program Manager for the District of Columbia at DC Health.

Mr. Hurley is completing his Doctorate in Public Health (DrPH) in Health Security at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and holds master’s degrees in public health and emergency and disaster management from Emory and Georgetown University, respectively.