How Does Centralization Play in Collaborative Emergency Management? Lessons Learned from the MERS Outbreak in South Korea

• In Event: Examining the Intersection of Disaster and Public Health Policy Subsystems in Times of Crisis

Brief Overview

This paper examines the effect of centralization on cross-sector collaboration during public health crises, using social network analysis to study the evolution of the network of organizations that responded to the 2015 MERS epidemic in South Korea.

Authors

• Minyoung Ku, CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice

• Ahreum Han, Trinity University

• Keon-Hyung Lee, Florida State University