Biosurveillance: Nonfederal Capabilities Should Be Considered in Creating a National Biosurveillance Strategy

Citation
Government Accountability Office, Biosurveillance: Nonfederal Capabilities Should Be Considered in Creating a National Biosurveillance Strategy (GAO-12-55) (Oct. 31, 2011) (full-text).

Overview
This report focuses on nonfederal jurisdictions, which own many of the resources that support a national capability for biosurveillance &mdash; to help detect and respond to a catastrophic biological event. It discusses (1) federal support for state and local biosurveillance; (2) state and local challenges; (3) federal support and challenges for tribal and insular areas and (4) federal assessments of non-federal capabilities.