Institutional Blog Posts

Notebooks and Notification: New Campus Security Regulations Take Effect

A college campus is run much like a small city: governed by its own leaders with its own rules and regulations. And much like a city, enforcing those rules and regulations is the responsibility of a police department, sometimes made up of dozens of officers at larger schools.

HIV/AIDS assistance can't meet demand

By Melissa Kim
CHHS Research Assistant, summer 2010

Lessons Learned as Unused H1N1 Vaccines Expire

By Meaghan McCann
CHHS Research Assistant, summer 2010

There is a surprising addition to list of lessons learned from the U.S. response to the 2009 H1N1 outbreak: sometimes being over-prepared has its own risks.

Preparedness, prevention, and pertussis

By Melissa Kim
CHHS Research Assistant, summer 2010

The BP oil spill and private sector disaster preparedness

Nearly two months into the devastating British Petroleum oil spill, the incident has released a public and political flood of anger and pointed questions regarding the responsibility of private entities to take on effective disaster preparedness, particularly when the consequences of a disaster have widespread public ramifications.

What earlier hurricane watches and warnings mean for the public

As National Hurricane Preparedness Week continues on, it is important to highlight some of the changes the National Hurricane Center has made to increase the preparedness and safety of the public.

The importance of effective information sharing

FEMA’s Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Grant Program (RCPG), not surprisingly, provides grant funding to selected urban areas across the country to improve catastrophic preparedness capabilities.

Polk Award for 60 Minutes story “The Price of Oil” featuring Professor Greenberger

CBS News reporter Steve Kroft and producer Leslie Cockburn have been honored with the 2009 George Polk Award for National Television Reporting for “The Price of Oil,” a January 2009 “60 Minutes” story that explained how Wall Street speculation rather than supply and demand very likely drove record price fluctuatio

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Students take part in CHHS-led discussion on counter-terrorism

On January 16, 2010, CHHS Senior Law & Policy Analysts Robin Clark and Mike Vesely offered their expertise on terrorism and counter-terrorism for students participating in the Lancaster County Virginia Education Foundation academic forum.

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Haiti earthquake: CHHS applauds first responders

On January 12, a powerful earthquake devastated the city of Port-au-Prince, Haiti and its surrounding communities. This is an unimaginable tragedy that has captured the world’s attention. CHHS applauds the efforts of the many first responders, from Haiti and abroad, who have once again answered the call for help in the wake of a catastrophe.

MARCE conference addresses public health response to biological emergencies

The Middle Atlantic Regional Center of Excellence for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases Research (MARCE) represents a consortium of 45 scientists from 15 research institutions located in the Northeast United States who collaborate to research and develop new or improved therapeutic, vaccine, or diagnostic products that can be used by the public h

WMD recommendations turn to action-items

Last year, the bi-partisan Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism provided the grave warning that “unless the world community acts decisively and with great urgency, it is more likely than not that a weapon of mass destruction will be used in a terrorist attack somewhere in the world by the end of

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Differing expectations for D.C.'s H1N1 response analysis

The novel H1N1 (swine) influenza presents a new threat to public health and safety that provides excellent opportunities for CHHS to work in both health and homeland security simultaneously with old and new clients. 

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Building on biosecurity testimony

The fear that the anthrax attacks stirred in the fall of 2001 is not a distant memory to political leaders on Capitol Hill. On Sept.

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A new partnership

CHHS has gained a valuable partner in Towson University (my alma mater) for its work on Maryland’s two resource management projects for the FY08 Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Grant Program. Towson’s Center for GIS (CGIS) will be working with us on what we call Project 6: Key Resources.

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Facilitating collaboration

Even though OMB has recently concluded that FEMA is unable to measure regional collaboration on homeland security, we saw regional collaboration first hand during our COOP for Non-Profits presentation at the Faces of Leadership conference in Charleston, WV. Xani and I were giving a stripped down version of the full COOP course to a small but engaged group of folks that represented non-profit organizations and state agencies in West Virginia. We also had three representatives from local emergency management in two counties in the class.

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“Influence without authority”

It’s a simple equation: Bring the right people together, get them talking, and you end up with tangible results.

Gov. O’Malley gives kudos to CHHS

Governor Martin O’Malley gave the keynote address at the Maryland Meta-Leadership Summit for Preparedness today and announced the creation of the Maryland Civic Guard for Emergency

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