Setting disease prevention policy, establishing quarantines and monitoring an outbreak of disease are the duties, respectively, of the Bureau of Communicable Disease Control, the National Quarantine Service and the National Institute of Preventive Medicine. Chuang Kai-chuan, who used to head up the Bureau of Communicable Disease Control, holds that there is an urgent need for a general commission on disease control that would have ultimate responsibility for decisions.
此外，目前國內的防疫政策、檢疫與疫情監視檢驗，分屬衛生署防疫處、檢疫總所和預防醫學研究所掌管，前防疫處科長莊凱全認為，這亟待成立事權統一的防疫總署來解決。