This will help ensure greater monitoring at national and local levels of the sustained existence of key components of public health infrastructure. For example, there will be greater accountability for surveillance and reporting of health threats if the entities enforcing these rules are based locally. Crisis response plans will also be more immediate as they could be prepared in advance and would be more tailored to specific community contexts. During health crises, valuable time is often wasted specifying response plans developed by nonlocal health organizations, and localized health organizations would alleviate this barrier to effective health care.