The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will convene an ad hoc workshop planning committee to organize a virtual, public symposium to explore current and needed methods for assessing and prioritizing capabilities for preventing, detecting, and responding to infectious disease outbreaks, epidemics, and pandemics at the individual country level. The symposium will solicit input from users of evaluation tools to identify limitations and define outstanding capabilities that address user needs. The symposium will provide an opportunity for academic, policy, health and scientific experts from low, middle, and high income countries and international organizations to address the following topics:

• Review the tools developed by different sectors (private sector, government, academia, etc.) currently in use to assess country capacity for preventing, detecting, and responding to emerging infectious diseases
• Use case studies to explore the burden of gathering information for the tools and what aspects of the assessments led to effective action.
• Review the experience of countries in determining limitations of the tools and outstanding capabilities that are needed.
• Discuss evidence and experience gaps and evaluations measures that are needed to inform the prioritization process.

The discussions during the symposium will be summarized in a rapporteur-prepared Proceedings-in-Brief.