{"c9374286-f051-4a4a-a20b-da25d3c319ff": "<p>Patients experience preventable harms in the context of outbreaks and other adverse events that stem from emerging infectious diseases with potential for healthcare transmission, unsafe healthcare practices, contaminated drugs, and medical devices. Consistent and coordinated approaches to outbreak detection, response, investigation, and control are needed to speedup detection of new threats, reporting outbreaks to public health, developing tools to support outbreak investigation, stop outbreaks from spreading, and inform prevention activities. </p><p><br />To address these needs, in 2015 the CDC’s Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion funded the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) and the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) to co-lead the Council for Outbreak Response: HAI/AR (CORHA). Council member representatives bring expertise in healthcare epidemiology and infection prevention, environmental health, public health laboratory activities and HAI/AR reporting and regulation at the local, state and federal levels.</p><p> </p><p> </p>", "f394434c-cdd6-422c-857c-73fdb47ec55d": "What We Do"}