National Biosurveillance Integration Center: Operations and Development

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1 National Biosurveillance Integration Center: Operations and Development Steve Bennett, Ph.D. Director National Biosurveillance Integration Center Office of Health Affairs Department of Homeland Security

2 NBIC Strategic Vision and Mission Strategic Vision Advance the safety, security, and resilience of the nation by leading an integrated biosurveillance effort that facilitates early warning and shared situational awareness of biological events. Mission Enable early warning and shared situational awareness of acute biological events and support better decisions through rapid identification, characterization, localization, and tracking. 2

3 National Biosurveillance Integration Center National Biosurveillance Integration Center (NBIC) Chartered by the Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007 (Public Law ) Housed in the Department of Homeland Security Coordinates comprehensive national biosurveillance and situational awareness Collaborates with the interagency community to acquire, integrate, analyze, and disseminate information pertaining to emerging biological events and their impact on US interests in order to: Provide indications and warnings to NBIS partners Provide situational awareness to NBIS partners NBIC Mission [The mission is] to disseminate alerts and other information to Member Agencies and, in coordination with (and where possible through) Member Agencies, to agencies of State, local, and tribal governments, as appropriate, to enhance the ability of such agencies to respond to a biological event of national concern P.L

4 National Biosurveillance Integration System National Biosurveillance Integration System (NBIS) Interagency community providing national biosurveillance and situational awareness Provides the collective framework to acquire, integrate, analyze, and disseminate information pertaining to emerging biological events and their impact on US interests NBIS Mission National Biosurveillance Integration System (NBIS) enhances the identification, location and tracking of biological events potentially impacting homeland security by uniquely integrating information and data and leveraging interagency communications and relationships. NBIS supports prevention and mitigation of such events by providing timely notifications and ongoing situational awareness to enhance response of government agencies. 4

5 NBIC Strategic Goals and Objectives NBIC Strategic Plan is aligned with the National Strategy for Biosurveillance concepts and approaches 5

6 The Role of NBIC as an Integrator NBIC (in full collaboration with its partners) connects, correlates, and contextualizes (not just aggregates) information through the production and dissemination of its analytic products by: Creating a synthesized, unified view of information from different sources, and providing a conclusion of what it could mean. This information integration has a greater impact than information aggregation alone, which is just the collecting of information to give users a single place of access. Providing a broad perspective of the impact of the combined whole of aggregated information. 6

7 NBIC Reporting Monitoring Lists reaches over 900 users across federal, state, and local agencies. Biosurveillance reports shared via Homeland Security Information Network (HSIN) and DHS Common Operating Picture (COP) Reports reach thousands of users in 56 states and territories Designates NBIC as biosurveillance authority within COP community and DHS NBIS weekly biosurveillance calls facilitate interagency discussion on significant worldwide biosurveillance issues Specialized, expedited reports provide early situational awareness to senior leadership for decision-support Protocol Activation brings federal partners together on short-notice teleconference to provide information sharing on significant biological event 7 FOUO 7 7

8 NBIC Products: MERS-CoV and H7N9 Interagency Coordination At request of NSS, activated NBIS Protocol on 5 April 2013 to rapidly bring together NBIS partners to discuss emerging H7N9 situation in China. Established weekly interagency calls MERS-CoV and H7N9, with significant collaborative efforts from CDC and USDA, as well as participation from the interagency Coordinated distribution of reports (H7N9 and MERS-CoV), to the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) and the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) with the CDC Influenza Coordination Unit and the CDC National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases Coordination Opportunities for Future H7N9 and MERS-CoV Issues Established operating protocols through relationships with United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) and National Security Staff (NSS) Newly appointed full-time, virtual liaison from the Department of Interior National Wildlife Health Center (NWHC) Surveillance of Department of Veterans Affairs data through part-time VA liaison 8

9 NBIC Products: External Requests Super Bowl Health Security Report Per the request of NJ Department of Health and state fusion center, NBIC provided a comprehensive assessment on national and international disease events with potential impact on Super Bowl participants Little League World Series Report Per the request of PA Dept. of Health and state fusion center, NBIC provided up-to-date information on disease acuity that may pose risk to the PA community 9

10 NBIC Products: External Requests Prioritization of animal diseases with USDA partner Per the request of USDA APHIS VS, NBIC is partnering to develop a prioritized list of significant zoonoses in order to create a one health model for a new surveillance system Biennial International Amateur Athletic Federation (IAAF) Report The Director of Emergency Operations, Public Health Division for the Oregon Health Authority requested NBIC provide a product similar to the Super Bowl report for their upcoming international competition held in July 10

11 NBIC Successful Engagements with State and Local Stakeholders National Association of County and City Health Officials Working with NACCHO Biosurveillance Working Group in an effort to strengthen NBIC connection to state and local public health and biosurveillance communities NBIC spoke at NACCHO Annual Conference in an effort to provide information that may guide the strategic direction of the NACCHO Biosurveillance Working Group NACCHO has provided feedback on NBIC products and pilot projects HSIN COI and DHS COP NBIC Biosurveillance Event Reports reach thousands of users in 56 states and territories through HSIN and the DHS COP An additional 200 members of the HSIE community, including state fusion centers and public health personnel, receive BERs Special Requests NBIC has received requests from state and local customers for health security reports on: Super Bowl in New Jersey requested by NJ Department of Health and state fusion center Little League World Series in Pennsylvania requested by PA DOH and state fusion center International Amateur Athletic Federation Competition in Oregon requested by Oregon Health Authority 11

12 Infected Biosurveillance Value of Early/Pre-Hospital Data Social Media Poison Control ED Hospital/Lab 911 EMS Open-source news/media Event mitigation due to action facilitated by early warning Time 12

13 NBIC Innovation Portfolio Arkham OSINT (NCMI) HealthMap GeoRSS Feed Visual & Text Analytics (PNNL) Open Source Data Collection & Analysis Collaborative Platform Development Collaborative Analytic Workbench for Biosurveillance (CTTSO/Palantir) National Collaborative for Bio- Preparedness (UNC-Chapel Hill) Health Data RFI Social Media Data (Dahlgren, MITRE) Food Safety / Poison Control Center Data (CDC/AAPCC) DHS Absenteeism Data Evaluating New Data Sources and Analytics Framing Problems & Addressing Gaps Characterizing & Communicating Uncertainty in Biosurveillance (MITRE) Integrating Economic Analysis into Biosurveillance (CREATE) Evaluating Utility of DHS Component Data Systems for Biosurveillance (BKC) Evaluating Value-of- Information for Biosurveillance (CREATE) Internal Evaluation & Prioritization Internal Product & Process Improvement New Analytic Collaborations (CBP, VA) Geospatial Analytics 13

14 Open Source Projects in 2014 Public Internet RSS Aggregator (Feedly) Biosurveillance Real-Time Data Feed (HealthMap) NCMI Open Source (Asylum) Open Source Data Collection & Analytics Visual & Text Analytics (PNNL) Collaborative Analytic Workbench (CTTSO-Palantir) Social Media Innovation Project (Dahlgren) FY15 14

15 Evaluation of DHS Component Data Systems Efforts prompted by February 2012 OCIO Report Report identified 11 data systems; NBIC identified 9 more BKC contracted to assess data sets for biosurveillance utility #1: Develop a systematic approach and set of criteria for determining the usefulness of non-public health data sets for NBIC s biosurveillance missions; #2: Evaluate usefulness of data sets and develop prioritized ranking; #3: Demonstrate use of prioritized data sets to support NBIC s products, tools, and services Preliminary BKC approach outlined & under NBIC review Identify biosurveillance questions informed by data sets describing the movement of people and goods, personnel status, detainee health, infrastructure and resource availability Define data evaluation metrics: resolution, update frequency, comprehensiveness, and uniqueness Score each data set for use vs potential health event Uses: forecast, detect, characterize, support response, analyze impact Events: C,B,R,N,E, man-made or natural disaster, agricultural disease Rank data sets with additive multi-attribute function Deliver modular, scalable framework with adjustable priority weighting TSA I &A DHS IG ICE CBP TECS UCIS Internal Evaluation & Prioritization US- VISIT USCG USSS 15

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