Preparing for the next public health crisis

Workers clean up the Gulf shore in this AP photo. The BP disaster underscores why we need to better manage the short- and long-term responses required to address the public health threats such disasters pose, as discussed in a new report by Ellen-Marie Whelan , CAP's Associate Director for Health Policy, and Lesly Russell, a Senior Fellow . This is cross-post.

We've all seen pictures of the dreadful and continuing aftermath of the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil well in the Gulf of ...