Introduction by Panel Chair Pamela Matson
Mark Ghilarducci, VP Western Region, James Lee Witt and Associates
“Preparing for Catastrophic Disaster - New Challenges for Emergency
Management”
Elisabeth Pate-Cornell, Professor, School of Engineering
“Katrina and other extreme events: a risk analyst's perspective”
Charles Perrow, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Yale University
“Why the Department of Homeland Security will not make us safer”
Gary Schoolnik, Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases)
“Natural disaster and civil disorder as precipitants of global epidemics: risk and prevention”