Lori Moore-Merrell

Dr. Lori Moore-Merrell founded the International Public Safety Data Institute (IPSDI) in 2019 after serving 26 years as a senior executive in the IAFF who was responsible for frontline interaction with elected officers, executive board members, state, provincial and local chapter leaders and individual organization members. The mission of the IPSDI is to assure that every local public safety agency can show its response capability, reliability and operational performance using its own local data. Moore-Merrell is considered an expert in emergency response system evaluation, public safety resource deployment, community risk assessment, data science/analytics, strategic planning, and policy development and implementation. As a Doctor of Public Health and a data scientist, she served on the Biden-Harris transition team to conduct agency review for Department of Homeland Security/FEMA as part of the COVID-19 response planning and on the public safety committee of the transition teams for the mayor of New York City and the mayor of the District of Columbia. Moore-Merrell advises metropolitan fire chiefs in areas of her expertise while providing them with scientific data to make fact-based decisions. She was awarded honorary membership in the Metropolitan Fire Chiefs Association for her expertise in fire prevention, fire suppression and other related disciplines.