Daniel Bell, R.S.

Environmental Program Coordinator

Lake Cumberland District Health Department

Daniel Bell is a Program Coordinator working in the Environmental Department of the Lake Cumberland District Health Department (LCDHD). He is responsible for developing emergency response operating procedures for the environmental health program at LCDHD for Adair, Casey, Clinton, Cumberland, Green, McCreary, Pulaski, Russell, Taylor, and Wayne Counties.

Recently, Daniel has worked as a Public Health Preparedness Coordinator for LCDHD where he was a member of a five person inter-disciplinary team charged with implementing strategic emergency preparedness activities. While there, the team developed and coordinated multiple exercises and events concerning infectious disease prevention/response, and for the deployment of the Strategic National Stockpile. They received national recognition by the CDC in a filmed documentary of a full-scale exercise executed in Taylor County on October 2004. The exercise was celebrated by the Kentucky Department for Public Health as being “above model” for full-scale exercises in the Commonwealth.

They also, designed and conducted multiple trainings to prepare health department personnel and other agencies for an emergency response were they delivered over 40 hours of training to over 700 people. In addition, the team authored and implemented emergency response plans for our ten county district. Our Department’s Smallpox Emergency Response Plan which was praised by the Kentucky Department for Public Health was forwarded to all 120 counties in the Commonwealth to further develop their department’s Smallpox Emergency Response Plans.

Prior to being employed with LCDHD, Daniel was a Project Manager and Environmental Consultant for Somerset Environmental Services (SES), Inc. where he directed remediation efforts to eliminate contamination at many environmentally polluted sites. Prior to leaving SES, Inc., Daniel was able to remediate eight project sites which brought them to closure status from the Kentucky Division of Waste Management.

Daniel currently holds certification as a Registered Sanitarian from the Kentucky Department for Public Health; Weapons of Mass Destruction General Instructor from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security; Community Emergency Response Team Trainer from the Emergency Management Institute; Awareness Level Instructor for Incident Response to Terrorist Bombings from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology; and is a member of the Epidemiology Rapid Response Team for the Kentucky Department for Public Health.

Daniel earned two B.S. degrees in Natural Resource Economics and Natural Resource Conservation and Management from the University of Kentucky.