title: U.S. Government engagement in support of global disease surveillance.
abstract: Global cooperation is essential for coordinated planning and response to public health emergencies, as well as for building sufficient capacity around the world to detect, assess and respond to health events. The United States is committed to, and actively engaged in, supporting disease surveillance capacity building around the world. We recognize that there are many agencies involved in this effort, which can become confusing to partner countries and other public health entities. This paper aims to describe the agencies and offices working directly on global disease surveillance capacity building in order to clarify the United States Government interagency efforts in this space.
authors.affiliation: U.S. Department of State, Washington, DC, USA. KatzRL@state.gov
authors.forename: Rebecca L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Katz
authors.forename: Leana M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: López
authors.forename: Joseph F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Annelli
authors.forename: Ray R
authors.initials: RR
authors.lastname: Arthur
authors.forename: Dennis
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Carroll
authors.forename: Leonard W
authors.initials: LW
authors.lastname: Chapman
authors.forename: Kenneth
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Cole
authors.forename: Cyril G
authors.initials: CG
authors.lastname: Gay
authors.forename: Daniel L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Lowe
authors.forename: Gary
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Resnick
authors.forename: Kevin L
authors.initials: KL
authors.lastname: Russell
mesh_terms: D057191:Capacity Building; D003140:Communicable Disease Control; D035082:Federal Government; D014943:Global Health; D006077:Government Agencies / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D007391:International Cooperation; D011159:Population Surveillance; D018571:Sentinel Surveillance; D014481:United States