Accession Number:

ADA561978

Title:

Health Security Intelligence: Assessing the Nascent Public Health Capability

Descriptive Note:

Master's thesis

Corporate Author:

NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA

Personal Author(s):

• Minarcine, Scott

Report Date:

2012-03-01

Pagination or Media Count:

103.0

Abstract:

This thesis explores the current state of public healths HS intelligence capability across State, Local, Tribal and Territorial SLTT jurisdictions through qualitative analysis of current public health jurisdiction plans for the collection, analysis, product creation, dissemination and programmatic oversight related to public health inputs into the homeland security intelligence apparatus. An assessment was conducted using an online Plan Assessment Tool, or PLAT, that allowed jurisdictional public health leadership to provide de-identified responses. This assessment of 25 of the 62 federally funded SLTT public health preparedness programs indicates one impediment to the continued maturation of this new intelligence capability is the lack of codified plans. The results also suggest that while public health programs at the SLTT level do indeed have much room for improvement, there is a burgeoning intelligence capability within public health. However, to sustain and improve this emergent capability will require a national effort to create mission focus and centralized guidance.

Descriptors:

• *PUBLIC HEALTH
• HOMELAND SECURITY
• INTELLIGENCE
• QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS
• THESES

Subject Categories:

• Medicine and Medical Research

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE