To fight any pandemic, the foremost step is to ensure that effective health systems are in place. For the COVID-19 outbreak, PATH in India is working with state governments, innovators and partners to deploy testing, surveillance, mitigation strategies, and to strengthen health systems. Their teams are also helping to plug gaps in health systems, provide support to develop and strengthen systems that are preventing, identifying, tracking, and responding to the COVID-19 outbreak. This includes policy, preparedness, information, education and communications support, capacity-building and strengthening, digital and data strategies, accelerating innovations and collaboration with the partners.