The White House released The United States Government Global Health Security Strategy (GHSS) 2024, which acknowledges that the United States and the international community can only achieve global, sustainable health security by working with all countries.
The GHSS delineates roles and responsibilities, which are reflective of the CDC’s core capacities. These are to:
- Implement and coordinate CDC programs to build capacity relevant to health security domestically and globally.
- Provide technical and scientific expertise in public health to partner countries, bilateral and multilateral institutions, and United States’ policymakers and leaders to achieve global health security goals.
- Provide technical and scientific expertise in public health to partner countries, bilateral and multilateral institutions, and US policymakers and leaders to assess and develop health security capacity and respond to health threats.
- Play a leading role, in conjunction with other relevant departments and agencies in addressing infectious disease outbreaks.
- Use data, modeling, and analytics to prevent, detect, and respond to outbreaks in real-time and to drive effective decision-making.
- Maintain staff internationally who advance collaboration with multisectoral partners and serve as a first line of defense against infectious diseases originating overseas.
