Learning Materials from the NPS Center for Homeland Defense and Security
Discover how leaders can harness the energy and positive contributions of potential whistle-blowers. Colonel Tom Rempfer, U.S. Air Force (Ret.) shares his personal experience as a successful and unyielding whistle-blower. Too often, whistle-blower...
This webinar is part of the CHDS Lecture and Webinar Series and is held in partnership with the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), CHDS Alumni Association, International Association of Emergency Managers...
Discussion of Countering Disinformation from the 12th Annual Homeland Defense and Security Education Summit held in Monterey, CA on October 31 through November 1, 2019. Participants include: Moderator: Eileen O’Connor, Subject Matter Expert...
A collection of reports focused on the process of Contact Tracing, which is being able to identify, assess, and manage people who have been exposed to a disease to prevent further transmission. These reports...
Panel Discussion from the 12th Annual Homeland Defense and Security Education Summit held in Monterey, CA on October 31 through November 1, 2019 which had a topic of “Public Interest Security: Leveraging Education to...
What is “health equity” and how is it a homeland security issue? William Pilkington provides a snapshot of the issues that impact the security of the American people as a result of public...
22nd Annual Emergency Management Higher Education Symposium. June 1-4, 2020 View Full Program [pdf] | Share Fair Directory [pdf] | Poster Session: Final 5 Posters [pdf] * Note: Some videos posted below are quite large and may...
Webinar Description: Organizational leaders have seen their plans for 2020 upended by the pandemic. As the country begins to reopen, leaders are facing a multitude of uncertainties about the Nation’s health, the economy, and ever-changing...
The Homeland Security Digital Library COVID-19 Resource Archive brings together documents from agencies and organizations that capture the environment, debates, and hard realities affecting governmental and public health policy decisions in preparedness, response, and...
Webinar Description: Throughout the pandemic, government leaders, health care professionals, and communities around the globe have confronted extraordinary resource allocation questions as the number of critically ill patients grew daily amidst severe shortages of equipment,...
The Center for Homeland Defense and Security at the Naval Postgraduate School graduates students with a Master’s degree in Security Studies every March, September and December (with occasional June graduates). Find all 900+ theses...
Webinar Description: The Cyberspace Solarium Commission was established in the John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act to develop a consensus strategy for defending the United States against cyber attacks. The Commission’s report, released March 11,...
In this Alumni Short Talk, Dr. Noël Lipana addresses the issue of moral injury. Moral injury often occurs when a person commits, fails to prevent, or witnesses an act that is anathema to their...
A weekly resource summary of COVID-19 information, policies, and emerging smart practices shared amongst the CHDS Community.
The ever-changing COVID-19 world has caused many leaders to ask, “When no one knows the answer, how do you field questions from the media and the public?”. In this webinar, CHDS communications experts weigh...
In this NPS-CHDS Weekly Student & Alumni COVID-19 Webinar, recorded May 14, 2020, leadership from the New York City Fire Department (FDNY) share some of the lessons learned to date and how they are...
Dr. Crystal Watson, Senior Scholar at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security, discusses the COVID-19 outbreak and the status of U.S. preparedness to combat the virus. She explores the broader public health...
Decisions are being made every day to close and re-open the economy. Travel restrictions are in place in some areas but not in others, beaches are opening and/or ordered closed, barbershops and floral shops are...
Public Policy and Legal Issues During the Pandemic: What Have We Learned and What Is On the Horizon? May 5, 2020. CHDS-NEMA-IAEM Webinar: Personal, Organizational and Community Resilience, April 29, 2020. CHDS-NCJA Webinar: Understanding...
Blueprint for Testing Plans and Rapid Response Programs, Guidelines: Opening Up America Again, How to Restart National Economies During the Coronavirus Crisis, National Coronavirus Response: A Road Map to Reopening, National Covid-19 Testing Action...
Combatting the ‘Infodemic’: Newsguard’s Response to the Spread of COVID-19 Misinformation, Countering the Health ‘Infodemic’, Covid-19 Disinformation Briefing No. 2: Far-Right Mobilisation, Covid-19 Disinformation Briefing No.1, COVID-19 ‘Infodemic’: A Preliminary Analysis of the Online...
February 18, 2020, Annual CHDS Alumni APEX Workshop, Monterey, CA. Katelyn Mason and Sam Korta discuss the importance of how state and non-state actors manipulate real world events to propagate narratives that influence and...
Play the audio: COVID19 has swept the globe in little more than 3 months. Health officials have enacted quarantine orders to reduce the disease’s spread but who enforces those orders? Lieutenant Don Lowenthal (Masters...
The April 2020 Issue of Homeland Security Affairs features an essay analyzing trends in European border security, a review of an important book on attribution of cyber-attacks, and a research article which proposes a...
Dr. Liu highlights how social media can be an effective communication channel in disasters, how emergency managers can incorporate data provided by the general public into actionable intelligence during an emergency response, and how...
A searchable collection of resources related to issues associated with the coronavirus disease and pandemics.
The Center for Homeland Defense and Security at the Naval Postgraduate School graduates students with a Masters degree in Security Studies every March, September and December (with occasional June graduates). Find all 900+ theses...
Dr. Kunreuther discusses the processes and biases in decision-making under uncertainty. He also proposes a behavioral risk audit that couple’s protective decision-making with economic incentives, enabling individual and collective actions to achieve greater resilience....
Kate Konschnik, Director of the Climate & Energy Program at the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke University and is a Senior Lecturing Fellow at Duke Law School, dives into the fundamentals...
Listen to audio: In this episode I have the opportunity to talk with not just one or two of our fellow alum, rather I have the pleasure of speaking with four: Steven Polunsky, Will...
Play the audio: Why does the click-through rate on threatening headlines far exceed those that are more benign? Calling something a threat through a provocative headline or soundbite initiates a biological reaction that almost...
In this episode of Viewpoints, Heather Issvoran interviews Carol Lucas on the topic of Biometric Identity. Lucas is a Senior Strategic Planner for the Office of Biometric Identity Management (OBIM) at the Department...
A database which contains each and every instance a gun is brandished, is fired, or a bullet hits school property for any reason, regardless of the number of victims, time, day of the week,...
Lecture/presentation. Noel Yucuis This lesson helps students work through the pitfalls of summarizing, quoting, and paraphrasing, which often lead to inadvertent plagiarism.
Resources to help improve your reading, writing, thinking, learning, and research skills.
The Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL) has resleased a new timeline. This timeline includes a variety of events and milestones related to homeland security and emergency management. New events will be considered and added as...
Each HSDL In Focus brings together short lists of resources in the HSDL collection that are highly relevant to current events. Recent lists include: 5G and National Security Insider Threats Extreme Heat Violence against...
In this NPS-CHDS Viewpoints, CHDS alumni Dr. Michael Larranaga and Dr. John Comiskey discuss the results of their examination of the potential threats that climate change could have on the nation’s homeland security...
Full book list for every course These are some of the text books assigned to Master’s students at the Center for Homeland Defense and Security in 2015-2017 courses. See the list for all current courses:...
Lecture/presentation — video. Marianne Taflinger Do you wonder where to start when sitting down to write your first paper in homeland security? This course teaches you how to write the introduction, body, and conclusion...
The Worldwide Threat Assessment has been presented to Congress annually by the Director of National Intelligence; and before that office was created, it was presented by the CIA Director in his position as...
Medium.com/Homeland-Security is an App Store of Homeland Security Ideas. CHDS participants are publishing new stories every few weeks. Edited by Rodrigo Nieto Gomez
Leaders and experts in school safety, youth safety and preparedness came together in summer 2018 to talk about Rethinking School Safety, Safety is Personal: Lessons Learned as a Survivor of the Virginia Tech Tragedy,...
A collection of presentations and resource lists across a broad range of topics and categorized into Homeland Security and Core Competencies. Topics include Machine Learning, Drought, Aging Infrastructure, Terrorism & Transnational Criminal Organizations, Challenges in Infrastructure Funding, Asymmetric...
The Critical Infrastructure Higher Education Initiative (CI HEI) was a highly successful five year partnership between the Center for Infrastructure Protection and Homeland Security (CIP/HS) at George Mason University and the U.S. Department of...
Course — website/web application. Developed in conjunction with Sean Everton, Co-Director and Michael Aspland, Faculty Associate for Research at the CORE Lab in the Defense Analysis Department at the Naval Postgraduate School This course is...
Course — website/web application. Nadav Morag. [Updated Dec 2016] Islam is a faith of richness and complexity that has manifested itself over time in a broad variety of ways. Unfortunately, it is also used...
Designing for Online Engagement Workshop Session 1 Materials [pdf] Collaborative/Team-Based Learning Activity Worksheet [docx]
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NPS-CHDS master’s graduate Ryan Monaghan (MA1803/1804), Lieutenant at San Mateo Police Department (CA), talks about his thesis with Heather Issvoran. In his thesis, Monaghan identifies potential gaps in cybercrime mitigation that could be...
NPS-CHDS master’s graduate Will Bierman (MA1803/1804), Field Office Director at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in the Department of Homeland Security, talks about how, by law, refugees entering the United States must...
NPS-CHDS master’s graduate Carl Makins (MA1803/1804), Sergeant at the Metro Bomb Squad in the Charleston County Sheriff’s Office, talks about Project Seahawk, a multiagency program that brings state-of-the-art technology and a regional approach...
NPS-CHDS master’s graduate Tom Simons (MA1803/1804), Firefighter at the Salt Lake City Fire Department, talks about gaps in the response of Emergency Medical Services (EMS) and hospitals. His research sought to examine whether...
NPS-CHDS master’s graduate Max Pfaffinger (MA1803/1804), Federal Air Marshal at Transportation Security Administration, discusses his thesis with fellow master’s student, Scott Fenton. Pfaffinger’s thesis focuses on the topic of gang violence from a...
NPS-CHDS master’s graduate Gary Cummings (MA1803/1804), Lieutenant at the Garland Police Department, talks about how police increasingly encounter citizens who challenge constitutional boundaries between civil rights and police power. These so-called ‘civil rights...
