Craig Tower is an emergency planner for the Johns Hopkins Hospital Office of Emergency Management (JHHOEM). He began working with Johns Hopkins Medicine in 2020, at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. During the initial onset COVID-19 and during subsequent surges, he performed planning and operations functions in the Johns Hopkins Medicine and Johns Hopkins Hospital COVID-19 Incident Command Centers. He  joined JHHOEM permanently in 2021. Craig's focuses on the planning and training functions of the emergency management (EM) program, collaborating extensively with internal and external EM partners in support of Hospital preparedness.

Prior to joining Johns Hopkins Hospital, Craig worked at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, where he helped to organize and evaluate full-scale urban disaster drills in Nigeria and Pakistan and managed operations for the state office of regional public health training center, funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). He has extensive experience in formal and informal education for adult learners, and has worked extensively on international projects in the fields of public health, microfinance, and communication. 

Craig holds a BA in history from Haverford College. He earned his a PhD in cultural and linguistic anthropology and African Studies from Northwestern University, performing a year and a half of field research to write his dissertation on local FM radio in Mali. Prior to graduate school, he served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Mali and led self-supporting bicycle tours in countries across sub-Saharan Africa.