Tarun Chandrasekar is a senior who is graduating in August from The College of William and Mary with a Bachelor's degree in Neuroscience. He is also part of the Global Scholars Program where he has a special interest in the intersection of public health and medicine with national security issues. Tarun is currently an intern at the Department of Defense in the Nuclear and CWMD Policy Office, where he works on biodefense and biothreat response policies.

This research paper was submitted while Tarun was an eIntern with the TRADOC G-2.