ISDS invites you to attend a free webinar led by members of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Sharon Balter, MD and Sharon Greene, PhD MPH.
Date and Time:
Thursday, April 21, 2016
3:00 pm - 4:00pm EDT
Description:
This webinar will present an overview of: (1) the epidemiology of Legionnaires' disease (LD), (2) techniques applied by the New York City (NYC) Department of Health and Mental Hygiene for routine LD surveillance and outbreak investigation, (3) detection and investigation of the second largest community-acquired LD outbreak in the U.S (South Bronx, July 2015), and (4) recent legislation enforcing regular maintenance, testing, and mediation of NYC cooling towers.
The presenters will conclude by soliciting suggestions from the ISDS community for techniques for defining an outbreak zone and for analyzing point patterns of case locations and cooling towers.
Presenters:
Sharon Balter is the Director of the Enteric, Waterborne, and Health Education Unit within the Bureau of Communicable Disease, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. She has an MD from the New York University School of Medicine.
Sharon Greene is the Director of the Data Analysis Unit within the Bureau of Communicable Disease, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. She holds a PhD and MPH from the University of Michigan School of Public Health.
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