> Reminder: Dissertation Defense > To The George Mason University Community > > Candidate: Herbert O. Wolfe > Program: PhD Biodefense* > * > Date: Friday December 2, 2011 > Time: 10:00 a.m. > Place: George Mason University > Research Hall Room 91 > Fairfax campus <http://www.gmu.edu/resources/visitors/findex.html>* > > *Dissertation Chair: Dr. Panagiota Kitsantas > Committee members: Dr. Amanda Dion-Schultz, Dr. Peter Darling > * > *Title: "Navy Medicine Homeland Defense, Civil Support, Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Response Assessment" > > * > *The dissertation is on reserve in the Johnson Center Library, Fairfax campus. > The doctoral project will not be read at the meeting, but should be read in advance. > /**/ > All members of the George Mason University community are invited to attend. > > > ABSTRACT:* * > > While the Department of Defense and the United States Navy have > executed the missions of Foreign Humanitarian Assistance and Defense > Support to Civil Authorities for many years, the events of September > 11, 2001 dramatically changed the mission priority as well as the > required capabilities to prepare for, respond to, mitigate and > recovery from an all-hazards (terrorist/man-made and natural) event > both at home and abroad. > > The primary goal of this Military Medical Department assessment is to > expand upon and compliment a larger Military Health System (MHS) > Homeland Defense and Civil Support and Stability Operations > Capabilities Based Analysis (CBA) in order to support Navy Medicine > transformational activities. The MHS CBA provided an excellent > baseline for the mission areas assessed, but required significant > augmentation to identify and address Navy Medicine specific capability > gaps. The end-state of this assessment is to support direction for > health services capability development in support of Homeland Defense > (HD), Emergency Preparedness (EP), Civil Support (CS), Humanitarian > Assistance(HA) and Disaster Relief (DR) missions and operations. > > This assessment directly supports the Navy Medicine Strategic Plan > Tier 1 Goal, Agile Forces: The Naval Forces will have the right > capabilities > > > ###