Henry Willis

Policy Researcher

Santa Monica Office

Education

PhD, Carnegie Mellon University (Public Policy/Admin/Analysis)

Policy Areas

Infrastructure Policy
Terrorism and Natural Disaster Risk Analysis
Environmental Policy

Selected Publications

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Dr. Henry Willis earned a Ph.D. at the Department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University studying risk analysis and management. His research applies decision analytic tools and risk analysis to help decision makers choose among competing resource management strategies or policy options. He has applied this approach to maritime and freight transportation policy, homeland security, emergency preparedness, and management of federal research and development programs. Examples of Dr. Willis' recent research include: assessing risk-based approaches to allocating homeland security preparedness resources; and assessing personal protective equipment needs of emergency responders working in a post-structural collapse environment. More recently Dr. Willis has completed two studies of security of the U.S. freight transportation infrastructure assessing the appropriateness of container security efforts and the costs and benefits of proposals to inspect containers entering the U.S.