Jay Balagna (he/him) is an assistant policy researcher at the non-profit, non-partisan RAND Corporation and a doctoral fellow at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. His research areas include disaster studies, disaster risk reduction and creation, the influence of climate change on disasters, climate-related and post-disaster migration, and the social determinants of health. Prior to joining RAND, Balagna was a wildland firefighter in Nevada and Montana, and an emergency medical technician in Los Angeles.