Academic Centers

• Center for Neurotechnology Studies
• International Center for Terrorism Studies
• National Center for Unconventional Thought
• Risk Analysis Center

National Security Health Policy Center (NSHPC) - Publications

• Purpose and Scope
• Projects
• Organizational Structure

NSHPC Publications

The NSHPC generates and disseminates a variety of publications to help policy makers, industry, educators, and health professionals better understand the interactions that occur at the interface between health issues and national security. Further, it helps redefine national security in the broader context necessitated by new and emerging health threats in a changing world and examine current and potential policy options to best manage the associated impacts of these threats.

In conjuction with the National Defense Unversity (NDU), NSHPC co-authored and published various handout-outs on infection control and avian flu. Additional information on these posters and handouts, Bird Flu & You: A Quick Guide to Protecting Yourself and Your Family from Bird (Pandemic) Flu, can be found here.

Also, in conjunction with NDU, the NSHPC authored or co-authored the following: Who You Gonna Call? Responding to a Medical Emergency with the Strategic National Stockpile (June 2004) and Looking for Trouble: A Policymaker's Guide to Biosensing (June 2004).

In November 2001, the Center published Terrorism and Medical Responses: U.S. Lessons & Policy Implications (Transnational Publishers Ardsley, NY). The volume resulted from a seminar, "International Terrorism & Medical Responses: U.S. Experiences Abroad, Lessons, & Policy Implications," held at the Potomac Institute For Policy Studies (Arlington, VA) on March 15, 2001. In addition to the articles from the Seminar the volume also contains original articles by NSHPC staff and a guest article by Dr. George S. Everly Jr. of The International Critical Incident Stress Foundation and Loyola College in Maryland.

Other Publications

Bird Flu FAQs

The Center has made available, through the Institute website, research papers and excerpts from other publications to which NSHPC staff have contributed. Foremost among recent publications are the Interim Report on Smallpox Vaccines and Vaccination and the excerpts from What is to be Done? Emerging Perspectives on Public Response to Bioterrorism.