Biosurveillance: Efforts to Develop a National Biosurveillance Capability Need a National Strategy and a Designated Leader

Citation
Government Accountability Office, Biosurveillance: Efforts to Develop a National Biosurveillance Capability Need a National Strategy and a Designated Leader (GAO-10-645) (June 30, 2010) (full-text).

Overview
The GAO found that biosurveillance activities were dispersed across federal agencies and no single entity had responsibility or authority for coordinating a strategic approach to building and maintaining a national biosurveillance capability.

The GAO recommended that the National Security Staff create a focal point to lead development of a national strategy. In August 2011, the National Security Staff informed the GAO that it had created a Sub-Interagency Policy Committee within its Domestic Resilience Group to coordinate the development of a National Strategy for Biosurveillance.