David Flamm (CHDS Master's cohort 1401/2) discusses the inefficiencies, conflicts, and misinterpretations that are created by emergency responders who rely on different approaches to incident management. He draws on practitioner interviews and an extensive literature review to demonstrate how the responses to Deepwater Horizon, Hurricane Sandy, Boston Marathon Bombing and US Ebola might have been different if responders took a more comprehensive and unified approach as described in his model.
Reports of police use of excessive force appear weekly in the media and have generated outrage in many communities. Officers actions are currently judged...
For most homeland security agencies, success is measured by preventing events. However, when it comes to budgets it can be hard to quantify what...
Michelle Mallek (CHDS cohort 1401) is legal counsel at FEMA and decided to study ‘Sovereigns‘ because much of the terrorist discussion in mainstream media...
