Provide Your Feedback on the NHSS

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 (NHSS). During the early part of 2009, the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR), with contract support, held a series of meetings to solicit public input on the strategy. However, if you were not able to participate we welcome your ongoing input into the NHSS and subsequent implementation documents.

Your feedback will be used by ASPR to inform the development of the NHSS. Providing your feedback is completely voluntary. Please type your comments into the box below or send us your feedback via e-mail at nhss@hhs.gov.

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.

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 and enable those systems to link to one another (e.g., urban search and rescue, surge care, ongoing treatment) for situational awareness?
What actions can be taken at a local level to improve individual and community readiness and preparedness?
What strategies are effective in addressing the needs of people requiring assistance in evacuation (e.g., locating, transporting, tracking) and/or ongoing medical care?
What educational opportunities could improve the effectiveness of the public health workforce?
Which strategies or modalities hold the most promise for improving situational awareness?
What marketing techniques to promote national health security would be most effective in your jurisdication?
What legal barriers to rendering health care during an emergency do you foresee?
Which aspects of incident management are challenges for the health system?
Which strategies hold the most promise for improving incident management?
What challenges, related to disease containment and mitigation, should government agencies and the community be addressing?
How should public health, health care providers, and facilities coordinate when preparing for, responding to, and recovering from large-scale disease containment?
How should the community (organizations and citizens) be involved in preparing for, responding to, and recovering from a large outbreak?
What are the key challenges in the ability of jurisdictions to provide emergency medication/vaccination to the public?
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 barriers to personal resilience?
What are the barriers to community resilience?
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?
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 NHSS and the successful implementation of it.

We look forward to hearing from you!