; (iii) train the existing and newly hired public health workforce on best practices related to tracing close contacts of individuals diagnosed with COVID–19, including the protection of individual privacy and cybersecurity protection; and (iv) equip the public health workforce with tools and resources to enable a rapid response to new cases; (F) identifies the level of contact tracing needed within the State, locality, territory, or Tribal area to contain and mitigate the transmission of COVID–19; (G) establishes statewide mechanisms to integrate regular evaluation to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention regarding contact tracing efforts, makes such evaluation publicly available, and to the extent possible provides for such evaluation at the county level; and (H) identifies specific strategies for ensuring contact tracing activities in medically underserved populations (as defined in section 330(b)(3) of the Public Health Service Act ( 42 U.S.C. 254b(b)(3) )), health professional shortage areas (as defined under section 332(a) of the Public Health Service Act ( 42 U.S.C. 254e(a) )), racial and ethnic minority populations, and geographically diverse areas, as determined by the Secretary. (3) Surveillance To strengthen the existing public health surveillance system that— (A) leverages or modernizes existing surveillance systems within the respective State, local, Tribal, or territorial health department and national surveillance systems; (B) detects and identifies trends in COVID–19 at the county level; (C) evaluates State, local, Tribal, and territorial health departments in achieving surveillance capabilities with respect to COVID–19; (D) integrates and improves disease surveillance and immunization tracking