[OPHDST] National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS)
Revision of a currently approved collection
No
Regular
10/19/2026
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Requested
Previously Approved
36 Months From Approved
11/30/2028
12,576
7,276
33,471
18,354
0
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The National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS) is the nationâs public health surveillance system used to monitor the occurrence and spread of nationally notifiable conditions. Respondents are 60 jurisdictions: public health departments in every U.S. state, New York City, Washington DC, 5 U.S. territories (American Samoa, the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands), and 3 freely associated states (the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau). NNDSS provides the official source of statistics in the United States for nationally notifiable conditions and CDC is the sole repository for these national, population-based data. Recently the NNDSS platform was modernized and expanded as a low-cost, common portal for collecting information on other conditions. Among the thousands of diseases that affect the health of the population, CDC and the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) have prioritized the approximately 120 Nationally Notifiable Conditions as those most important for public health monitoring and response.
Changes to NNDSS in this Revision include: 1) receipt of case notification data for soil-transmitted helminth infections and flea-borne typhus since they are under standardized surveillance; 2) receipt of two new disease-specific data elements for leprosy (Hansenâs disease); 3) 45 new core data elements for all conditions; and 4) the addition of up to 50 Tribal Nations to the respondent population.
The estimated annual burden hours increased due to the inclusion of up to 50 Tribal Nations.
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that the collection of information encompassed by this request complies with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR 1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding the proposed collection of information, that the certification covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.