Zika Action Plan (ZAP) Summit

Goals of the Summit:

• Provide state and local senior officials with information and tools needed to improve Zika preparedness and response within their states and jurisdictions.

• Increase knowledge on the latest Zika science, including implications for pregnant women.

• Increase knowledge of best communications practices, including crisis and risk communication principles.

• Accelerate readiness for local Zika transmission through training and technical assistance to states to help establish and support surveillance and share best practices for vector control.

• Identify possible gaps in preparedness and response at the federal, state, and local levels, and help to begin to address possible gaps.