Donald A. Donahue, DHEd, is the Director of the Health Policy and Preparedness Program at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies.  In an article for the Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, he writes that the US has invested significant resources in creating high-tech methods of detecting emerging health threats, while overlooking simpler and cheaper options that could prove just as useful - or, in some cases, even more effective. Writes Donahue, "We focus on technological detection and empirical validation when more subtle indicators may offer earlier evidence of an emerging outbreak ." Click below to read the article in full.