Influenza pandemic : opportunities exist to clarify federal leadership roles and improve pandemic planning : testimony before the Subcommittee on Emerging Threats, Cybersecurity, and Science and Technology, Committee on Homeland Security, House of Representatives / statement of Bernice Steinhardt.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Steinhardt, Bernice

Contributor:

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Homeland Security. Subcommittee on Emerging Threats, Cybersecurity, and Science and Technology

United States. Government Accountability Office

Series:

Testimony ; GAO-07-1257 T.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emergency management--United States.

Emergency management.

Epidemics--United States--Prevention.

Epidemics.

Health planning--United States.

Health planning.

Influenza--Government policy--United States.

Influenza.

Epidemics--Prevention.

United States.

Physical Description:

12 pages : digital, PDF file.

Other Title:

Opportunities exist to clarify federal leadership roles and improve pandemic planning

Place of Publication:

[Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Govt. Accountability Office, [2007]

Summary:

An influenza pandemic is a real and significant potential threat facing the United States and the world. Pandemics are unlike other emergencies because they are not a singular event nor discretely bounded in space and time. This testimony addresses (1) federal leadership roles and responsibilities for preparing for and responding to a pandemic, (2) our assessment of the Strategy and Plan, and (3) opportunities to increase clarity of federal leadership roles and responsibilities and improve pandemic planning. GAO used its characteristics of an effective national strategy to assess the Strategy and Plan. The issues discussed in the testimony are based primarily on the GAO report, Influenza Pandemic: Further Efforts Are Needed to Ensure Clearer Federal Leadership Roles and an Effective National Strategy (GAO-07-781). In this report, GAO recommended that (1) The Secretaries of Homeland Security and Health and Human Services develop rigorous testing, training, and exercises for pandemic influenza to ensure that federal leadership roles and responsibilities are clearly defined, understood and work effectively and (2) HSC set a time frame to update the Plan, involve key stakeholders, and more fully address the characteristics of an effective national strategy. The Departments of Homeland Security and Health and Human Services concurred. The HSC did not comment.

Notes:

Title from title screen (viewed Sept. 27, 2007).

"For release on delivery, expected ... Wednesday, September 26, 2007."

Paper version available from: U.S. Govt. Accountability Office, 441 G St., NW, Rm. LM, Washington, D.C. 20548.

Includes bibliographical references.

OCLC:

173378478