Gary Cecchine

Biography

Gary Cecchine is a natural scientist at the RAND Corporation, where he leads and conducts technical and policy research in a range of areas, including homeland security, domestic use of the U.S. military, emergency response, terrorism, and science and environmental policy. He recently led research for the congressionally mandated Advisory Panel on Department of Defense Capabilities for Support of Civil Authorities After Certain Incidents, and he is currently leading a study of the Army's role in responding to the catastrophic earthquake in Haiti in January 2010. He has directed research on the civil support role of the military after natural disasters and terrorist attacks, including an analysis of the Army's role in Hurricane Katrina and other disasters. In other research, he investigated pathways by which domestic terrorists could produce biological or chemical weapons and examined approaches to halt multiple bioterrorism attacks in the United States. Cecchine earned his Ph.D. in biology and public policy from the Georgia Institute of Technology.