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C. 77

To:	Board of Supervisors
From:	Anna Roth, Health Services Director
Date:	August 15, 2023

Contra

Costa

County

Subject:

Contract #72-185 with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

APPROVE	OTHER
RECOMMENDATION OF CNTY ADMINISTRATOR	RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE

Action of Board On: 08/15/2023

APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED

OTHER

Clerks Notes:

VOTE OF SUPERVISORS

AYE:

John Gioia, District I Supervisor
Candace Andersen, District II Supervisor
Diane Burgis, District III Supervisor
Ken Carlson, District IV Supervisor
Federal D. Glover, District V Supervisor

Contact:	Ori Tzvieli, M.D., 925-608-5257
cc:	F Carroll L Bright

I hereby certify that this is a true and correct copy of an action taken and entered on the minutes of the Board of Supervisors on the date shown.
ATTESTED: August 15, 2023
Monica Nino, County Administrator

BY:	, Deputy

RECOMMENDATION(S):

APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Health Services Director, or designee, to execute on behalf of the County, a Data Use Agreement (DUA) #72-185 with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a public health authority, concerning hosted public health data-sharing for its National Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP)’s BioSense Platform for the period from September 1, 2023 through August 31, 2028, subject to approval by the County Administrator and approval as to form by County Counsel.

FISCAL IMPACT:

This is a non-financial agreement, there is not cost to the County associated with this DUA.

BACKGROUND:

This DUA will meet the needs of the County’s population by allowing Public Health to participate in the NSSP's BioSense Platform. The DUA governs data compliance between Contra Costa Health Services Public Health department, partnering health systems, and CDC to share and analyze necessary data related to inpatients and disease trends.

Syndromic surveillance is a process that regularly and systematically uses health, public health, and health-related data in near real-time to make information on the health of a community available to public health officials and government leaders for decision-making and enhanced responses to hazardous events and outbreaks. In response to the Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002 and the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Reauthorization Act of 2013, the CDC developed and modified the BioSense Program to establish an integrated system of nationwide public health surveillance for the early detection and prompt assessment of and response to potential bioterrorism-related illness. As of November 2011, the BioSense Program developed a distributed computing environment, which included analytic tools. The program has since evolved into the NSSP, a collaboration among individuals and organizations from the local, state, and federal levels of public health, including departments of health; other federal agencies, including the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs. NSSP currently includes a community of practice and a cloud-based syndromic surveillance computing platform (the NSSP BioSense Platform) that safely hosts data submitted by its participants and computing applications, including analytic tools and services.

Under this contract, CDC’s obligations include providing the County with a cloud-based environment for the NSSP BioSense Platform in order to facilitate the receipt, storage, and management of the County’s syndromic surveillance data.

Approval of contract #72-185 allows the contractor to provide services through August 31, 2028.

CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:

If this contract is not approved, Public Health will be unable to participate in the CDC program. Its data will not contribute to the overall goal of the program, and therefore the health community will miss out on the timely receipt of this vital information, which in turn could put the County’s population at risk.