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CHDS Theses: Executive Summaries

CHDS Master's students summarize their research and the impacts of that work on agency practices and the nation's security.

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CHDS Theses: Executive Summaries

Securing Healthcare’s Quantified-Self Data: A Comparative Analysis Versus Personal Financial Account Aggregators Based on Porter’s Five Forces Framework for Competitive Forces

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 …

Securing Healthcare’s Quantified-Self Data: A Comparative Analysis Versus Personal Financial Account Aggregators Based on Porter’s Five Forces Framework for Competitive Forces

Social Networks and High Healthcare Utilization: Building Resilience Through Analysis

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

Lighting a Fire Under Public Health and Safety Education: Influence through Rational Choice, Reasoned Behavior, and Behavioral Economics

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 …

Lighting a Fire Under Public Health and Safety Education: Influence through Rational Choice, Reasoned Behavior, and Behavioral Economics

States of Terror: Understanding Evolving Islamist Terrorist Organizations and the Threat They Pose

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

Developing a Shared Service Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Capability for Regional Emergency Services

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

Mindfulness Training: Worthwhile as a Means to Enhance First-Responder Crisis Decision Making?

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?

Blueprints for Disaster: Balancing Secrecy and Transparency of Government Continuity Plans

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

Assessing Resilience: How Plans, Strategies and After Action Reports Can Improve Our Understanding of Organizational Preparedness

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 …

Assessing Resilience: How Plans, Strategies and After Action Reports Can Improve Our Understanding of Organizational Preparedness

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