Decision Making and Leadership in Public Health Emergency Response

Harvard HSPH

Responding to a public health emergency requires quick decision making with limited and often imperfect information. Leaders must understand the substance of each decision, the available options, the anticipated downstream consequences – both inside and beyond the healthcare sector – and undertake a risk analysis with very little time for consideration or margin for error. Each leader, across the larger enterprise, is making their own series of decisions that interconnect with the larger…