RaCERS Board Member Glenn Corbett of John Jay College of Criminal Justice teamed with colleague Scott Knowles of Drexel University to write a piece advocating for creation of a federal Disaster Investigation Board. Building on precedents of the National Transportation Safety Board and Chemical Safety Board, both well-respected bodies that investigate and make recommendations to improve response to and and prevent disaster in transportation and chemical manufacturing, respectively.
Their piece, entitled “For the COVID-19 Era, a United States Disaster Investigation Board,” appeared in Issues in Science and Technology.
The Regenhard Center’s first working paper, published in 2009, called for a independent After Action Review of all federally-declared disasters. http://christianregenhardcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Concept_For_Implementation.pdf
