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Biosurveillance : developing a collaboration strategy is essential to fostering interagency data and resource sharing : report to congressional committees.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- United States. Government Accountability Office
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Department of Homeland Security--Rules and practice--Evaluation.
- United States.
- United States. Department of Homeland Security.
- Public health surveillance--United States.
- Public health surveillance.
- Interagency coordination--United States.
- Interagency coordination.
- Emergency management--United States.
- Emergency management.
- Bioterrorism--United States--Prevention.
- Bioterrorism.
- Communicable diseases--United States--Prevention.
- Communicable diseases.
- National security--United States.
- National security.
- Bioterrorism--Prevention.
- Communicable diseases--Prevention.
- Genre:
- Rules and practice.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ii, 33 pages) : illustrations
- Other Title:
- Developing a collaboration strategy is essential to fostering interagency data and resource sharing
- Biosurveillance integration
- Place of Publication:
- [Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Govt. Accountability Office, [2009]
- Summary:
- Recently, there has been an increased focus on developing the ability to provide early detection of and situational awareness during a disease outbreak. The Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act sought to enhance this capability, in part, by creating the National Biosurveillance Integration Center (NBIC) within the Department of Homeland Security. NBIC is to help provide early detection and situational awareness by integrating information and supporting an interagency biosurveillance community. The act directed GAO to report on the state of biosurveillance and resource use in federal, state, local, and tribal governments. This report is one in a series responding to that mandate. This report focuses on the actions taken by NBIC to (1) acquire resources to accomplish its mission and (2) effectively collaborate with its federal partners. To conduct this work, GAO reviewed documents, such as NBIC's Concept of Operations, and interviewed officials at NBIC and 11 federal partners. To enhance collaboration, GAO recommends that NBIC work with its interagency advisory body to develop a strategy for addressing barriers to collaboration, such as the lack of clear mission, roles, and procedures, and to develop accountability mechanisms to monitor these efforts. We provided this draft to DHS and 11 federal partners. DHS concurred with our recommendations.
- Notes:
- Title from cover screen (GAO, viewed Dec. 21, 2009).
- "December 2009."
- Includes bibliographical references.
- "GAO-10-171."
- OCLC:
- 491496326
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