Some of the major, or largest, surveillance agencies include:
Regional and National Levels
- For humans: Departments of Health and Public Health
- For food animals: Departments of Agriculture plus individual food processing companies
- For wildlife: Departments of Natural Resources, Wildlife, or Fish and Game
International Level
- WHO Global Outbreak and Response Network
- U.S. Department of Defense’s (DoD’s) disease surveillance efforts with the Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System (GEIS) and Early Warning Outbreak Recognition System in Asia, Africa, and other high-risk areas for emerging zoonotic infectious diseases
- OIE World Animal Health Information System and Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
In the US, the CDC has made huge efforts to integrate work done across the human and animal sectors. Even within this one agency, however, there are many different entities such as the National Center for Zoonoses, Vector-borne, and Enteric Diseases, Laboratory Response Network for Bioterrorism, Surveillance System for Arboviral Diseases (ArboNET), FoodNet, PulseNet, and the National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System, to name a few.
