Johanu Botha is a graduate of SPPA’s PhD in Public Policy. He held one of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada’s prestigious Joseph-Armand Bombardier Awards for doctoral research. Botha completed Canada’s first comprehensive study on the nature of collaboration across all levels of government and the military during domestic disaster response. The University of Toronto Press is working with Botha to publish his dissertation as a book. His other most recent peer-reviewed research on emergency management and public policy can be found in Disaster Research and the Second Environmental Crisis (Springer 2019) and the Handbook of Comparative Policy Analysis (Routledge 2017). Botha applies his research through conducting emergency management analysis and business continuity planning for organizations across all sectors.