Dr. Elizabeth Anderson-Fletcher
Dr. Elizabeth Anderson-Fletcher is Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management in the Department of Decision and Information Sciences in the C.T. Bauer College of Business at the University of Houston, with a joint faculty appointment in the Hobby School of Public Affairs. She is Faculty Director of the UH First Responder Program in the Department of Psychology. She is also a volunteer firefighter in the Cypress Creek Fire Department/Harris County Emergency Services District #13 with eleven years of service, recently promoted to Captain. She serves as Chaplain and Associate Director of the department’s mental wellness program. Dr. Anderson-Fletcher was project director for First Responder Mental Health and Wellness, a grant awarded to Cypress Creek Fire Department by the Office of the Governor, State of Texas, Criminal Justice Division. She was instrumental in building Cypress Creek’s mental wellness program, which offers firefighters peer support, chaplaincy services, and/or licensed professional counseling through a partnership with a clinical practice. She was a co-author of the Firefighter Behavioral Health Alliance’s inaugural white paper: Wounds of the Spirit: Moral Injury in Firefighters.
