- In the United States, the majority of the work is carried out at the state and local levels. Activities include the collection of important statistics about infectious diseases, disease reports and statistics collected from doctors' practices, vital statistics pertaining to births and deaths, hospital capacity information and information regarding investigation of infectious diseases to allow for adequate response to biological threats.
- Comprehensive information systems allow for easy access to the information necessary to examine public health information for the purpose of monitoring emerging health trends such as developing outbreaks in certain populations or areas.
- In 2005, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) made the National Electronic Disease Surveillance System Base System (NBS) a freely available web-based information reporting system to all states in order to facilitate the reporting of health data from various partners within the health care system. Doctors practices, hospitals, pharmacies and laboratories were among the partners included. For example, as part of this process, local health partners must report infectious disease data to their state public health department on a regular basis. Weekly mortality and morbidity reports are generated in this way.
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