Robert Perkins is a Content and Media Strategist/Emergency Communications Coordinator at Caltech. A former news reporter, he took a job as a public information officer at the LA County Department of Public Health at the beginning of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic. He later managed research communications at USC. Perkins is a graduate of the William Allen White School of Journalism at KU and the Master of Professional Writing Program at USC. He lives in Altadena, California.