Highlight 2012 Pre-Conference Workshop: Swap Meet

The Swap Meet is an annual Pre-Conference Workshop session that is extremely popular among Pre-Conference Workshop participants. It is an exciting opportunity for attendees to walk around to tables and informally discuss topics and systems with system developers, system users, and experts. One 2011 participant stated that "meeting with the experts during the Swap Meet," was the most valuable part of the Pre-Conference Workshops. 

This year's Swap Meet is shaping up to be another energizing session with presentations on topics including (in no particular order):

• ESSENCE
• Suite for Automated Global Electronic Biosurveillance (also known as open-ESSENCE)
• Assessment tools to meet the core capacities of the surveillance goal of the 2005 International Health Regulations (IHRs)
• BioSense 2.0 Governance
• Community of Innovators in Epidemiology and Public Health Informatics (coi-EPHI)
• National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) ePublic Health/Informatics
• New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Syndromic Surveillance
• EpiCanvas Infectious Disease Weather Map
• FirstWatch
• Gossamerhealth.org: Open-source collection and organization of surveillance data
• HealthMap
• ISDS Committees – Education and Training, Global Outreach Committee, Public Health Practice, and Research  

The 2012 Swap Meet is taking place at the Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina, San Diego, CA, USA and is currently scheduled for Monday, December 3^rd from 3:00 to 5:00pm US PST. Register for any Pre-Conference Workshop track to gain access to the Swap Meet. Find information on track options here.

Highlight ISDS Workshop: Assessment tools to meet the core capacities of the surveillance goal of the 2005 International Health Regulations

2012 Pre-Conference Workshops

Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina

1380 Harbor Island Drive, San Diego, California 92101 

Resolution WHA65.23, developed at the World Health Assembly in May 2012, recognizes the importance of having tools and procedures available for the continuous monitoring of core capacities specified in the 2005 International Health Regulations (IHRs). The resolution urges state parties, “… to take the necessary steps to prepare and carry out appropriate national implementation plans in order to ensure the required strengthening, development and maintenance of the core public health capacities...”

 

In order to directly address the needs discussed at the World Health Assembly, ISDS, with support from WHO, is developing a one-day, hands-on training designed to help nations meet the core capacities of the surveillance goal of the 2005 IHRs. The training will feature an overview of the IHRs (2005) by Dr. Stella Chungong, lead of the IHR Monitoring Team at the World Health Organization. This overview will be followed by an introduction to concepts and tools to assess current performance and gaps in performance by Dr. Scott McNabb, Public Health Practice, LLC. Participants will also have an opportunity to implement these tools on indicators specific to their country (or on sample indicators).

The final session of the Pre-Conference Workshop is called the ‘Swap Meet’ – an interactive session during which participants may walk around to tables and informally discuss topics and systems with system developers, users, and content experts.

Reserve your space and register now.

Find information on other Pre-Conference Workshop Track options here.

This Pre-Conference Workshop Track is being sponsored in part by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency.

ISDS's Global Outreach Committee hosted an International Health Regulations Webinar Series featuring both Dr. Chungong and Dr. McNabb. View the recordings here.