By Catherine Chiang – Executive Summary – Healthcare industry’s quantified-self movement empowers individuals via active self-tracking. This movement describes individuals’ use of applications and devices, such as Fitbit, to monitor and manage their health. Most importantly, the granularity of quantified-self …
By Michael D. Baker – Executive Summary – A group of unique patients exists within the United States healthcare system—a group that finds managing health and wellbeing difficult despite receiving quality care from leading physicians and modern hospitals. This relatively …
Social Networks and High Healthcare Utilization: Building Resilience Through Analysis →
By Timothy Mcnamara – Executive Summary – BACKGROUND The mission of public health and safety education is administered through interventions that attempt to influence individuals to perform beneficial practices. Interventions employ a variety of methods in their efforts to effect …
By Dylan McCulley – Executive Summary – In the early 21st century, Islamist militant organizations are abandoning al-Qaeda’s organizational model of disassociated networks operating around the world and turning toward a centralized regional-power approach. The intent of these organizations appears …
States of Terror: Understanding Evolving Islamist Terrorist Organizations and the Threat They Pose →
By James Martin – Executive Summary – The momentous and tragic events of September 11, 2001 altered the course of our nation. Terrorism, and particularly terrorist violence perpetrated by Islamist groups, became the motivating force for a series of enormously …
By Thomas Lakamp – Executive Summary – Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have evolved over the last century from rudimentary tethered balloons to electronically advanced aircraft that can be piloted using a cellular telephone. As a result of this evolution, the …
Developing a Shared Service Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Capability for Regional Emergency Services →
By John Flynn – Executive Summary – It has been said, “a warrior’s most formidable weapon is his mind. It follows then that the sharper the commanders mind, the sounder the decisions.”[1] The primary aim of this thesis was to …
Mindfulness Training: Worthwhile as a Means to Enhance First-Responder Crisis Decision Making? →
By Stephen Vollbrecht – Executive Summary – Focusing primarily on succession planning and continuity of government in the event of a catastrophe, continuity planning has been a part of the preparedness landscape since at least the Cold War.[1] After the …
Blueprints for Disaster: Balancing Secrecy and Transparency of Government Continuity Plans →
By Michelle Tonelli – Executive Summary – To use big data analytics effectively in predictive policing, a program must meet what has become known as the “four Vs”—volume, velocity, variety, and veracity.[1] Volume requires a large amount of data, velocity …
By Melissa Nussbaum – Executive Summary – Resilience has emerged as a prominent term throughout homeland security and emergency preparedness doctrine. The National Preparedness Goal, the United States Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) guiding strategic document, defines success as “having …
