Franzisca Doser is Group Welfare Manager for the Wellington Region Emergency Management Office. Previously, she was an Emergency Management Lead at Health New Zealand; her role is responsible for coordinating and strengthening disaster resilience, readiness, response and recovery capability of the Canterbury district’s health system.
As an early-career professional who graduated with her Master’s degree in 2020, Franzisca has a deep appreciation for the relationship between applied science and research, and implications for practice and policy. Before becoming an emergency manager, Franzisca worked to support the recovery of the families, survivors, and witnesses from the Christchurch terrorist attacks. Her time in this role enabled her to gain an in-depth understanding of the systems that make up the unique way in which New Zealand government agencies and community-led initiatives collaborated to responded to complex human needs post-calamity.
Franzisca’s career in the Civil Defence Emergency Management space started at Christchurch City Council, where she worked as Community Resilience Coordinator and later Welfare Manager. Her response experiences include deployments to support Auckland and Hawke’s Bay in coordinating their district level responses to Cyclone Gabrielle.
Franzisca is convinced that international collaboration is needed to further the capabilities of emergency managers – not only from an organisational perspective, but more importantly on behalf of the communities she serves.
