As a follow up to the Research Committee's May 2009 webinar, "Technical Challenges from the Public Health Practice Community," several ISDS members will be participating in a panel session at this year's APHA Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, PA.
The session, entitled "Disease Surveillance and Health Program Monitoring Part I: Challenges from Public Health Practitioners to Statisticians and Technology Developers," will be taking place on Monday, November 9th from 10:30 am to 12:00 pm EST. The panel was organized by Howard Burkom, ISDS Board Member and Research Committee Chair, based on the abstracts submitted for the May webinar. He will also be acting as moderator for the session.
Session schedule:
10:30 AM
Research Priorities for Syndromic Surveillance Systems Response: An Expert Panel Summary
Corey Farrell
10:50 AM
Expanding electronic health information: Implications for public health practice
Julia Gunn, RN, MPH
11:10 AM
Need for Decision Support Tools in Local Public Health Surveillance and Response
Michael Coletta, MPH
11:30 AM
TBD
More information and full abstracts available here
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