Daniel M. Gerstein, Ph.D., is a Senior Policy Researcher at the RAND Corporation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research institution, as well as a Professor of Policy Analysis at Pardee RAND Graduate School. He formerly served as the Undersecretary (acting) and Deputy Undersecretary in the Science and Technology Directorate of the Department of Homeland Security from 2011–2014.
A Biosurveillance Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (BISR) system would address two mission-critical requirements for biosurveillance to detect and prevent outbreaks: rapid detection and predictive analysis.
