The society of emergency and disaster management was founded on the 13th January in 2011, by 8 founder members who graduated from emergency and disaster management bachelor degree, faculty of health, the University of Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart in city of Çanakkale. The founder members are, Galip USTA, Hüseyin KOÇAK, Hasan UÇAR, Ahmet GÜLSOY, Cüneyt ÇALIŞKAN, Yusuf UYAN and Gökhan KAPUSUZ.
Just after the foundation date, the society started to make meeting, contact and correspondence to figure out degree and staff problem which is the first mission of the society. As a result of these meetings, with the view of council of higher education and considering medical lessons content in this degree, it is approved that the college graduates from emergency and disaster management bachelor degree can use the degree name ‘Emergency and Disaster manager’.