In this seminar, Ellen Carlin, then assistant research professor at Georgetown University’s Center for Global Health Science and Security with a faculty appointment in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, said that the United States increasingly relies on funding disaster response through emergency channels, which reflects lost opportunities for preparedness and resilience. She argued that governing by emergency supplemental funding is likely a harmful process that needs to be reconsidered as we enter an era of increasing billion-dollar disasters.
This event was co-sponsored by the Center for Global Health Science and Security, the School of Health’s Department of Health Management and Policy, and the Global Health Institute.
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Ellen Carlin was an assistant research professor at Georgetown University’s Center for Global Health Science and Security with a faculty appointment in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology. She was also the director of the Master of Science in Global Infectious Disease Program at Georgetown’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. She studies transmission dynamics of zoonotic pathogens, focusing on the interfaces among people, animals, and the environments in which they live. She also studies the adequacy of policies to address high-consequence infectious disease events and the political dynamics of this decision-making.