A virtual briefing sponsored by the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL), Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE), Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), and National Association for Public Health Statistics and Information Systems (NAPHSIS).
COVID-19 has exposed deadly gaps in our nation’s public health data infrastructure. Now, more than ever, the CDC and our nation need a strong public health surveillance system that detects and facilitates the immediate response to and containment of emerging health threats. Looking beyond COVID-19 this conversation will address the urgent need to improve our public health infrastructure and workforce to create coordinated and expanded surveillance capacity at the federal, state, territorial, and local levels of government.