Surveillance Strategy Report — Taking the Initiative
Targeted Initiatives Push Progress
Download and print the full Surveillance Strategy: Public Health Surveillance: Preparing for the Future [PDF – 40 Pages, 15.8 MB].
To demonstrate early success, CDC pursued crosscutting initiatives based on their importance to state and local health departments, potential for quick results, and foundational importance to CDC centers and programs. These initiatives are charting the course for newer, faster, smarter, and better ways to use and connect data for public health needs today—such as tracking diseases like the flu and tackling the opioid epidemic—as well as the public health needs of tomorrow.
The section of the report on these pages, Taking the Initiative, summarizes the strategy’s priorities, metrics, and impact.
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- To go to the next section of the report, click on the link, Innovation, which highlights progress made through innovation and partnerships.
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Modernize and transform the National Vital Statistics System (NVSS) into a system capable of supporting near-real-time mortality surveillance.
Accelerate the adoption of electronic laboratory reporting (ELR) through collaboration among clinical laboratories, vendors, and public health agencies.
Enhance surveillance capabilities of the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS) by improving data collection, sharing, and analysis across the entire public health community through the NNDSS Modernization Initiative (NMI).
Improve public health ability to analyze, compare, and act on real-time data from emergency departments and other sources by enhancing the National Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP) as part of the BioSense Modernization Initiative.