Joel Billings

Dr. Joel M. Billings is an assistant professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University who specializes in firefighter sleep health, shift schedules, alerting systems and occupational wellness. He earned his Ph.D. in fire and emergency management administration from Oklahoma State University, where his doctoral research provided insights on the relationship between firefighter shift schedules and sleep quality. Billings advanced the measurement and methodology of firefighter sleep through the use of actigraphy and by creating the Emergency Service Sleep Diary. His research has been funded by the Department of Homeland Security/FEMA and the National Institutes of Health/National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.