Pennsylvania’s COVID-19 Response through the Homeland Security Frameworks and Research Lens – Lessons Learned

Authors

Alexander Siedschlag, Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg

Submitting Campus

Worldwide

Department

Security and Emergency Services

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication/Presentation Date

10-29-2020

Abstract/Description

• Although typically framed as a pandemic owned by the public health sector, the COVID-19 response falls directly within the homeland security mission space, whose core missions include “Ensuring Resilience to Disasters” (QHSR 2014).
• In some aspects PA’s COVID-19 response is in line with security research.
• In other dimensions, it is neither in line with what research would recommend nor with what the National Preparedness System would foresee.
• The Keystone State has yet to fully make the step from disaster to catastrophe as the characteristic challenge to U.S. emergency management in our century.

Sponsorship/Conference/Institution

13th Annual Homeland Defense/Security Education Summit

Location

Penn State World Campus

Number of Pages

16

Scholarly Commons Citation

Siedschlag, A. (2020). Pennsylvania’s COVID-19 Response through the Homeland Security Frameworks and Research Lens – Lessons Learned. , (). Retrieved from https://commons.erau.edu/publication/1953