NBIC integrates, analyzes, and shares national biosurveillance information provided from capabilities distributed across public and private sectors. The integration of information enables early warning and shared situational awareness of nationally significant biological events to inform critical decisions directing response and recovery efforts.
The 2014-2015 HPAI H5 outbreak in the U.S. was the largest HPAI outbreak in the country’s history and resulted in the culling of millions of domestic birds and significant economic losses through loss wages, direct production losses, cost of recovery, consumer price increases, and trade restrictions.
NBIC worked closely with liaisons from USDA/APHIS and DOI/ NWHC over the course of the outbreak to integrate information from both agencies and open source reporting into reports and data sets providing early and sustained shared situational awareness to over 1400 federal, state, and local authorities.
Objective
The National Biosurveillance Integration Center (NBIC) coordinated information sharing with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA/APHIS) and the Department of Interior (DOI/ NWHC) to integrate information and provide shared situational awareness of the 2014-2015 Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) outbreak in the U.S. across all levels of government.