A new strategy for public health surveillance at CDC: improving national surveillance activities and outcomes.

472  Public Health Reports / November–December 2014 / Volume 129 The Executive Perspective column is a regular feature in Public Health Reports by leaders of offices under the Assistant Secretary for Health. In this installment, Drs. Chesley L. Richards, Michael F. Iademarco, and Tara C. Anderson describe the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) new strategy for federally supported public health surveillance activities. The new strategy focuses on what CDC must do inside and outside the agency to encourage progress in the field, working side by side with its state, territorial, local, and tribal partners.