Provide Your Feedback on the National Health Security Strategy

Welcome! The purpose of the feedback form is to provide you with the opportunity to comment on both broad and specific areas of the National Health Security Strategy. During the early part of 2009, the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR), through a contract awarded to the RAND Corporation, is holding a series of meetings to solicit public input on the strategy. This website is for attendees of these meetings to comment further on the topics discussed and on draft elements of the Strategy.

Your feedback will be used by ASPR to inform the development of the National Health Security Strategy. Providing your feedback is completely voluntary.

The comments you submit may be made publicly available, in accordance with applicable law. Thus, we request that you please refrain from submitting proprietary information or that you label it appropriately.

Please feel free to make suggestions on the concepts and wording of the following draft components of the National Health Security Strategy:

Definition of health security
Strategy goals and objectives
Principles for a National Health Security Strategy.

We would be interested in hearing if these draft components are missing important concepts, are organized appropriately, or contain ideas that should not be there.

In addition, feel free to comment on the:

Capability areas that the Strategy should emphasize (e.g., where you would invest your limited resources)
Community involvement in health security (e.g., where the community has a unique support role)
Any additional issues that remain a challenge to ensuring health security.

The following are some specific areas for your consideration. We welcome your comment on these or other issue issues you think should be addressed.

What is most needed to develop and maintain systems for situational awareness?
What strategies or modalities hold the most promise for improving situational awareness?
Which aspects of incident management are challenges for public health?
What strategies hold the most promise for improving incident management?
What challenges, related to disease containment and mitigation, should government agencies and the community should be addressing?
How should public health, health care providers, and facilities coordinate preparing for large-scale disease containment?
How should the community (organizations and citizens) be involved in preparing for a large outbreak?
What are the key challenges in the ability of jurisdictions to carry out countermeasure delivery?
Are there additional elements of an effective medical response that you think should be included in the strategy?
What are the key challenges/barriers that your jurisdiction faces in preparing for and mounting an effective medical response?
What are the key challenges that you have faced in ensuring population safety and health?
What are the most important things that could be done to prepare for evacuation and mass care?
What strategies are effective in addressing the needs of people requiring assistance in evacuation (e.g., locating, transporting, tracking) and/or ongoing medical care?
How should government support community organizations in long-term recovery planning?
Where would you invest limited resources in the next four years?

Finally, we would be interested in hearing your opinions about our ongoing outreach (e.g., regional meetings) and the types of opportunities that you think would best engage stakeholders in refining and implementing the Strategy.

We welcome any other comments you may have on the National Health Security Strategy.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Please type your comments into the box below or send us your feedback via email at nhss@hhs.gov