Carnegie Mellon holds conference on crisis readiness
Last week I attended a conference hosted by Carnegie Mellon University in DC on “Crisis Readiness,” which featured presentations by a number of the university’s professors and affiliated experts on a range of homeland security topics. The slides from the day’s presentations are available here; they’re worth perusing, in particular the ones on risk communication, water supply security, and risk analysis methodologies.
I was glad to see Carnegie Mellon hold this conference, as a means of “bridging the gap” between academics and policy-makers in the field of homeland security. I don’t think these connections are strong enough today, and one of my primary goals for this site is to bring solid research and analytical efforts to the attention of policy-makers in DHS, other agencies, and Congress.
