ABSTRACT
Phase I — Situation You are a top-level administrator of the World Health Organization (WHO), which is a part of the United Nations (World Health Organization, 2012). Your organization is responsible for monitoring illnesses worldwide as well as working on solutions to prevent pandemics from occurring across the globe (World Health Organization, 2012). In the past, some illnesses have been eradicated from the globe by taking an aggressive and universal vaccination program and containment strategy to all of the world’s populations (i.e., smallpox) (World Health Organization, 2012). Smallpox was eradicated after World War II between 1966 and 1980, in large part because of the United Nations and national governments cooperating to resolve a common problem (World Health Organization, 2012). Pandemics can be extremely deadly to populations, as shown by the Spanish flu in 1918 that killed between 50 million and 100 million people between 1918 and 1919 (Taubenberger and Morens, 2006).
