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The Public Health Crisis Survival Guide
he Public Health Crisis
T
Survival Guide
Leadership and Management
in Trying Times
Joshua M. Sharfstein
Professor of the Practice, Department of Health Policy
and Management
Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community
Engagement
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Updated Edition
Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers
the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education
by publishing worldwide. Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University
Press in the UK and certain other countries.
ISBN: 978–0–19–766029–4
DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197660294.001.0001
9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Printed by Marquis, Canada
For Yngvild
CONTENTS
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Contributors xvii
1 Introduction 1
SECTION I | History
2 Elixir Sulfanilamide 19
3 Thalidomide 29
Box 3.1: Frances Kelsey, the Heroine of the FDA 32
Grace Mandel
SECTION II | Management
6 Recognizing a Crisis 61
7 Crisis Management 73
Box 7.1: Flint, Michigan: More than Safe Water 88
Nicole Lurie
8 Communications and Politics 93
Box 8.1: Bellevue Hospital: Losing Credibility 97
Grace Mandel
Box 8.2: Smallpox at the NIH 103
Edward L. Hunter
Epilogue 167
viii | Contents
PREFACE
x | Preface
Finally, the Committee said yes—and I’ve enjoyed immensely teaching
the class, now called Crisis and Response in Public Health Policy and
Practice. For their written assignments, my students pick crises of the last
century, assess what happened, and suggest what might have been done
differently—fan fiction for public health.
My involvement with public health crises has extended beyond the
classroom. About every week or so, I hear from a local, state, or federal
health official wanting to talk through a crisis facing his or her own agency.
We discuss rising opioid overdoses, irate city council members, coming
fiscal calamities, human resources meltdowns, and critical audit reports.
Many of those calling have been former colleagues, now in charge; others
have just heard that I’m available to listen and offer ideas to help with
thorny challenges.
I very much enjoy supporting great people in the field of public health
manage and lead through crises, big or small. I especially appreciate the
moment in our conversations when new ideas start to surface and the
clouds begin to part. Even over the phone, I can recognize a palpable sense
of relief—and of resolve.
The goal of this book is put in writing what I have learned from these
experiences—and to continue this quest to assist current and future health
officials find success in the most difficult and trying of times.
August 2017
Preface | xi
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
xiv | Acknowledgments
other than as a force of nature. She can balance more projects on the tip of
her finger than anyone else on the planet.
A few of my friends read over parts of the manuscript, none so dili-
gently and helpfully as my college roommate Daniel Mufson. I was lucky
to have Grace Mandel in my class the first time I taught it. Recognizing her
brilliance, I hired her to be this project’s research assistant. She kept the
project on deadline and on track, and contributed sidebars along the way.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now has the good fortune
of having her on the team. Special thanks to the other sidebar authors,
including Edward Hunter, Nicole Lurie, Governor O’Malley, and Mark
Harrington (whose fascinating contribution to the appendix could be the
start of a book all its own).
This book would never have happened without the strong support at
every step from Chad Zimmerman at Oxford University Press and his en-
tire team, including Chloe Layman. Chad kept encouraging me to write a
book for people to read, which I hope I have delivered.
My brother Dan supported me with his words, advice, and example
as an award-winning writer. My sister Sarah kept me going with helpful
phrases like, “Why can’t you write more like Dan?” I’m counting on my
parents Steven and Margaret to submit online reviews, just as they have
supported me in everything I’ve attempted my entire life. In writing about
the intersection of politics, policy, and common sense, I am channeling
the legacy of my grandparents. Luna deserves an extra treat for her help
with the book; she never let me sit at the computer for too long without
demanding a walk and allowing me some time to reflect. For many years
now, my antidote to frustration and despair has been time with Sam and
Isak, two amazing young men ready to take on the world.
Yngvild Olsen is more than a partner in crime. Her contributions to my
life, my career, and this book are impossible to enumerate. Here’s the best
I can do: When I asked her by Jamaica Pond in 1997 (in lieu of a formal
marriage proposal), “Are you ready for this?”, her answer made everything
else possible. This book is for her.
Acknowledgments | xv
CONTRIBUTORS
Mark Harrington
Edward L. Hunter
Nicole Lurie
Grace Mandel
Du côté de l’aurore,
L’esprit de l’Orestie, avec un fauve bruit,
Passait; en même temps, du côté de la nuit,
Noir génie effaré fuyant dans une éclipse,
Formidable, venait l’immense Apocalypse;
Et leur double tonnerre à travers la vapeur,
A ma droite, à ma gauche, approchait, et j’eus peur
Comme si j’étais pris entre deux chars de l’ombre.
Guernesey.—Avril 1857.
LA
LA TERRE
HYMNE
D’ÈVE A JÉSUS
LE SACRE DE LA FEMME
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Ineffable lever du premier rayon d’or,
Du jour éclairant tout sans rien savoir encor!
O matin des matins! amour! joie effrénée
De commencer le temps, l’heure, le mois, l’année!
Ouverture du monde! instant prodigieux!
La nuit se dissolvait dans les énormes cieux
Où rien ne tremble, où rien ne pleure, où rien ne souffre;
Autant que le chaos la lumière était gouffre;
Dieu se manifestait dans sa calme grandeur,
Certitude pour l’âme et pour les yeux splendeur;
De faîte en faîte, au ciel et sur terre, et dans toutes
Les épaisseurs de l’être aux innombrables voûtes,
On voyait l’évidence adorable éclater;
Le monde s’ébauchait; tout semblait méditer;
Les types primitifs, offrant dans leur mélange
Presque la brute informe et rude et presque l’ange,
Surgissaient, orageux, gigantesques, touffus;
On sentait tressaillir sous leurs groupes confus
La terre, inépuisable et suprême matrice;
La création sainte, à son tour créatrice,
Modelait vaguement des aspects merveilleux,
Faisait sortir l’essaim des êtres fabuleux
Tantôt des bois, tantôt des mers, tantôt des nues,
Et proposait à Dieu des formes inconnues
Que le temps, moissonneur pensif, plus tard changea;
On sentait sourdre, et vivre, et végéter déjà
Tous les arbres futurs, pins, érables, yeuses,
Dans des verdissements de feuilles monstrueuses;
Une sorte de vie excessive gonflait
La mamelle du monde au mystérieux lait;
Tout semblait presque hors de la mesure éclore;
Comme si la nature, en étant proche encore,
Eût pris, pour ses essais sur la terre et les eaux,
Une difformité splendide au noir chaos.
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