ABSTRACT
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) fully connects the dots of health and security in both its mission and operations . In fact, health is one of its 17 critical areas of infrastructure . Hospitals, labs, pharmaceutical companies, water and energy companies, and a host of aligned facilities all play a key role in the event of an attack on the public health .2 DHS is not the sole agency entrusted with this sort of assessment since others need to be involved, such as Health and Human Services, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Department of Energy, and the Departments of the Interior and Agriculture . While space cannot allow for coverage of each and every element in the health sector, this section will assess the more commonly known homeland−public health connections .
