Essays on Strategy and Public Health

Rodrick Wallace is a research scientist in the Division of Epidemiology at the New York State Psychiatric Institute, affiliated with Columbia University’s Department of Psychiatry (US). He has an undergraduate degree in mathematics and a PhD in physics from Columbia, and completed postdoctoral training in the epidemiology of mental disorders at Rutgers. He worked as a public interest lobbyist, including two decades conducting empirical studies of fire service deployment, and subsequently received an Investigator Award in Health Policy Research from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. In addition to material on public health and public policy, he has published peer reviewed studies modeling evolutionary process and heterodox economics, as well as many quantitative analyses of institutional and machine cognition. He publishes in the military science literature, and in 2019 received one of the UK MoD RUSI Trench Gascoigne Essay Awards.

Wicked strategic problems.- The enemy gets to vote on the outcome.- Fog and friction as resources.- Strategic Culture.- Agribusiness vs. Public Health: Disease Control in Resource-Asymmetric Conflict.- Power relations and COVID-19 in New York City.- Tuberculosis, the Marker of Abusive Power Relations.- Literacy and public health.- How policy failure and power relations drive COVID-19 pandemic Waves.- Strategic counterpoint and fugue.- Concluding remarks.- Index.