External Policy Studies Governance

Challenges to Leadership: Responding to Biological Threats

Author

Paul Rosenzweig
Former Resident Senior Fellow, Cybersecurity and Emerging Threats

Introduction

This paper seeks to identify certain gaps and overlaps in existing structure and mechanisms and to advance potential solutions that can be implemented. It examines two issues of concern: Federal Coordination Structure and Federal/State Coordination and recommends that a more comprehensive set of planning and response exercises be developed in order to better understand and develop a doctrine of incident leadership suitable for a biological crisis.

Read the full study here: National Defense University Press

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