Barishansky, Raphael, Marko Bourne, Darrell Darnell, Robert Kadlec, Daniel Kaniewski, John Paczkowski, Peter Roman, and Adam Thiel, Public Health and Emergency Management: Challenges and Opportunities. Washington, DC: Homeland Security Policy Institute (PDF), June 7, 2012.

 

On June 7 the Homeland Security Policy Institute released its latest in a series of resilience reports prepared by their Preparedness, Response, and Resilience Taskforce. This one focused on the challenges that still exist in improving public health preparedness since Hurricane Katrina exposed critical gaps. Dr. Robert Kadlec of HSPI’s Preparedness, Response, and Resilience Task Force, said, “While we have achieved much in preparing for an uncertain future of natural disasters and deliberate incidents, we have yet to reach the levels of preparedness required to fulfill our goal of resilience.”