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Last updated:
September 13, 2010
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TOM ANDERSON
Emergency Management Coordinator
Wisconsin Dept of Health Services (DHS)
Tom Anderson is the Emergency Management Coordinator for the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS). He works in the Division of Public Health, Office of the Administrator, Preparedness Unit.
Since it’s creation in 2003 he has served as the alternate representative for the State Health Officer on the Wisconsin Homeland Security Council. Previously he represented the Department of Health and Family Services on the State Emergency Response Board, which served to oversee chemical emergency planning in Wisconsin, as the public health representative from 1990 – 1998. He is familiar with local government in Wisconsin as he was elected and served as Chair of the Town of Blooming Grove in Dane County from 1997 to 2005.
Tom has worked for the department for 35 years and has been a Registered Sanitarian in Wisconsin since 1976. He is a 1972 graduate of the University of Wisconsin - Madison with a major in Biology and minor in Chemistry. He has also completed additional coursework in Environmental & Public Health from U.W. - Eau Claire and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.