Hello All,
I wanted to be sure you were one of the first to get this information. Our work in building community resilience is responsive to this plan. So, today, we are pleased to announce the latest strategy and implementation plan to guide our efforts.
The National Health Security Strategy and Implementation Plan (NHSS/IP) 2015-2018 will be a driving force behind my priorities, activities, and resource decisions over the next four years. It’s a national strategy and plan; hundreds of organizations and agencies participated in crafting it and everyone is called to action to secure health, from community organizations and academic institutions to businesses and government agencies at all levels.
The latest NHSS is streamlined from the first one and now contains five strategic objectives in which federal agencies will focus resources and programs. Though we don’t have a very big role in most of the objectives, we can have significant impact on the first one.
The strategic objectives are:
- Build and sustain healthy, resilient communities.
- Enhance the national capability to produce and effectively use both medical countermeasures and non-pharmaceutical interventions.
- Ensure comprehensive health situational awareness to support decision-making before incidents and during response and recovery operations.
- Enhance the integration and effectiveness of the public health, healthcare, and emergency management systems.
- Strengthen global health security.
For more in-depth understanding, ASPR released the National Health Security Review (NHSR) 2010-2014, which describes progress that the nation has made—along with its persistent challenges—in strengthening national health security over the past four years.
For more information and to obtain a copy of the NHSS/IP 2015-2018 and NHSR 2010-2014, visit www.phe.gov/nhss or email NHSS@hhs.gov.
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