Ed Chan

Overview

Commentary

• Blog

  Prepare for Disaster

  Published commentary by RAND staff: Prepare for Disaster in the United Press International.

  Sep 27, 2005 United Press International

Publications

• Journal Article

  Journal Article

  Assessing and Improving Hospital Mass-Casualty Preparedness: A No-Notice Exercise

  An exercise developed for hospitals helps them assess and improve their readiness for mass casualty incidents.

  Sep 1, 2017

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  Report

  Inventory Reduction Without Regret: Balancing Storage and Rebuy Costs

  The Army should assess the cost of inventory not on its total dollar value but instead on long-term factors such as storage costs, repair costs, and the risk of rebuy.

  Jun 17, 2015

• Journal Article

  Journal Article

  Wearing Many Hats: Lessons About Emergency Preparedness and Routine Public Health from the H1N1 Response

  Describes some of the challenges the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (LACDPH) faced during the pH1N1 response associated with simultaneous operation of emergency and routine operations.

  Apr 7, 2015

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  Report

  Improving DLA Supply Chain Agility: Lead Times, Order Quantities, and Information Flow

  This report examines how the Defense Logistics Agency could improve its supply chain agility, focusing on reducing lead times, right-sizing order quantities, and mitigating the effects of demand shifts through improved customer information flow.

  Jan 5, 2015

• Report

  Report

  Efficient Aviation Security: Strengthening the Analytic Foundation for Making Air Transportation Security Decisions

  Presents a set of analyses intended to help fill some of the current gaps in analysis of the costs, benefits, and efficiency of aviation security measures and strategies in the face of uncertainty.

  Aug 21, 2012

• Report

  Report

  Improving Joint Expeditionary Medical Planning Tools Based on a Patient Flow Approach

  The authors propose a planning concept for U.S. military expeditionary medical care that promotes patient flow rate as the common unit of measurement for treatment and evacuation functions.

  Apr 24, 2012

• Report

  Report

  Analysis of the Cities Readiness Initiative

  Examines (1) the status of communities' capability to deliver medical countermeasures within 48 hours of a federal decision to deploy assets and (2) whether the Cities Readiness Initiative has improved communities' capability to meet that goal.

  Mar 27, 2012

• Journal Article

  Journal Article

  Assessing the Security Benefits of a Trusted Traveler Program in the Presence of Attempted Attacker Exploitation and Compromise

  Examines the security costs and benefits of a trusted traveler program, in which individuals who have been identified as posing less risk than others are allowed to pass through security checkpoints with reduced security screening.

  Mar 1, 2012

• Draft

  Draft

  Assessing the Security Benefits of a Trusted Traveler Program in the Presence of Attempted Attacker Exploitation and Compromise

  Examines the security costs and benefits of a trusted traveler program, in which individuals who have been identified as posting less risk than others are allowed to pass through security with reduced security screening.

  May 25, 2011

• Report

  Report

  The Economics of Air Force Medical Service Readiness

  To transition rapidly to wartime service, Air Force Medical Service critical-care providers need suitable peacetime training opportunities, and this work must be properly attributed to AFMS so that it receives proper credit in budget distributions.

  Jan 12, 2011

• Journal Article

  Journal Article

  Developing National Standards for Public Health Emergency Preparedness with a Limited Evidence Base

  National performance standards for public health preparedness can be developed based on existing evidence, but would be helped immensely by a stronger evidence base.

  Dec 1, 2010

• Journal Article

  Journal Article

  Federal Initiative Increases Community Preparedness for Public Health Emergencies

  This article describes an evaluation of the Cities Readiness Initiative, a federal program to improve communities' ability to dispense medications rapidly during emergencies.

  2010

• Draft

  Draft

  Decision-Making Modules for the RSS-POD Supply Management Game: A Game-Based Assessment of Crisis Decision Making During Inventory Management and Distribution of Medical Countermeasures

  Introduces and explains two new modules for the RSS-POD Supply Chain Management Game, an Excel-based computer simulation game designed to provide practice in managing inventories of medical countermeasures during a largescale public health emergency.

  Oct 11, 2009

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  Draft

  The RSS-POD Supply Chain Management Game: An Exercise for Improving the Inventory Management and Distribution of Medical Countermeasures

  Introduces and explains the RSS-POD Supply Chain Management Game, a Microsoft Excel-based simulation game designed to provide practice in managing inventory of medical countermeasures during large-scale public health emergency.

  Sep 25, 2009

• Report

  Report

  New Tools for Assessing State and Local Capabilities for Countermeasure Delivery

  Presents assessments that test five critical elements of state and local health departments' capability to deliver countermeasures to the population under rapid timeframes.

  Sep 3, 2009

• Draft

  Draft

  A Workshop Template to Assess and Improve SNS Planning

  Contains a template that public health agencies can use to conduct a workshop to improve key aspects of Strategic National Stockpile planning: pediatric dispensing, altered standards of care, and allocation of scarce resources.

  Aug 4, 2009

• Research Brief

  Research Brief

  Are Communities Ready to Conduct Rapid and Large-Scale Dispensing of Medications During a Public Health Emergency?

  This research highlight summarizes the findings of RAND's initial evaluation of the Cities Readiness Initiative and the program's impact on communities' readiness to conduct mass dispensing of medications and other medical supplies.

  Apr 1, 2009

• Report

  Report

  How Should Air Force Expeditionary Medical Capabilities Be Expressed?

  A new metric for measuring expeditionary medical support based on the medical STEP rate of each component of the system -- a more accurate measure of capability than the current measure, number of beds.

  Feb 24, 2009

• Report

  Report

  Initial Evaluation of the Cities Readiness Initiative

  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention asked RAND to provide an initial evaluation of the impact of the Cities Readiness Initiative on awardees' readiness and capability to conduct mass countermeasure dispensing.

  Jan 30, 2009

• Research Brief

  Research Brief

  A Step Forward in Accountability for Public Health Emergency Preparedness: Developing Standards for Mass Antibiotic Dispensing

  This fact sheet summarizes the results of a RAND initiative to develop performance standards for distributing antibiotics and other lifesaving medical countermeasures on a large scale within the critical first 48 hours of a public health emergency.

  Nov 10, 2008

• Report

  Report

  Recommended Infrastructure Standards for Mass Antibiotic Dispensing

  This report presents recommended standards for points of dispensing (or PODs), locations where the public would receive life-saving antibiotics or other medical countermeasures during a large-scale public health emergency.

  Sep 29, 2008

• Journal Article

  Journal Article

  How Can We Strengthen the Evidence Base in Public Health Preparedness?

  In this article, the authors argue that initial funding priorities for public health systems research on preparedness should focus on using engineering-style methods to identify core preparedness processes, developing novel data sources and measures based on smaller-scale proxy events, and developing performance improvement approaches to support the translation of research into practice within the wide variety of public health systems found in the nation.

  2008

• Draft

  Draft

  Enhancing Public Health Preparedness: Exercises, Exemplary Practices, and Lessons Learned, Phase III: Task E: Approaches for Developing a Volunteer Program to Respond to Public Health Emergencies

  Lays out strategies and approaches for establishing or expanding a volunteer program to build workforce surge capacity in the event of a public health emergency.

  Dec 9, 2007

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  Draft

  Improving Global Influenza Surveillance: Strategies for the U.S. Government

  Identifies strategies for improving global influenza surveillance and suggests practical steps that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services might consider for implementing them.

  May 3, 2007

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  Report

  Implementing Security Improvement Options at Los Angeles International Airport

  Reasserting the need for reducing the density of people in unsecured areas at Los Angeles International Airport, the authors advise that adding security film to the tempered windows will likely not reduce fatalities in the event of a bomb detonation.

  Feb 16, 2006

• Research Brief

  Research Brief

  New Analytic Tools Evaluate Overseas Combat Support Basing Options for the U.S. Air Force

  Nov 25, 2005

• Report

  Report

  Near-Term Options for Improving Security at Los Angeles International Airport

  Examining near-term options for reducing the terrorist threat to Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), this study assesses LAX’s vulnerability to a wide range of possible terrorist actions and examines possible alternative courses of action.

  Sep 23, 2004

• Report

  Report

  Supporting Air and Space Expeditionary Forces: Lessons from Operation Enduring Freedom

  Presents an analysis of Air Force combat support experiences associated with Operation Enduring Freedom and compares these experiences with those associated with Operation Allied Force (OAF) to determine similarities and applicability of lessons across ex

  2004

• Report

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  Supporting Air and Space Expeditionary Forces: Analysis of Combat Support Basing Options

  Evaluates global forward support locations (FSLs) for storing war reserve materiel and presents a framework for evaluating FSL options.

  2004