This month, the ISDS Research Committee is hosting a webinar on "Research on School Absenteeism Data and the Effect of School Closings on Disease Spread." This meeting will be the Committee's first topical call.
Many members are interested in surveillance using school absenteeism, illness-associated or otherwise, and on the effect of school closings on the recent H1N1 threat.
Featured panelists:
-Marc Paladini, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
-Julia Gunn, Boston Public Health Commission
-Francisco Averhoff, CDC/CCID/NCPDCID
-Shuying Shen, Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah
-Atar Baer, Public Health - Seattle & King County
The webinar will be taking place on Thursday, July 30th at 11:00 am EDT.
Register here.
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