The mission of the Maricopa County Department of Public Health (MCDPH; Arizona) is to protect and promote the health and well-being of its residents and visitors. Surveillance efforts allow epidemiologists to quantify and characterize public health threats, but traditional methods take time. In an effort to enhance situational awareness, the Office of Epidemiology dedicated resources to begin developing a robust syndromic surveillance program. This abstract outlines steps for enhancing syndromic surveillance at a local public health department.
Objective
To demonstrate how a local public health department used the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Framework for Program Evaluation and a logic model to enhance its syndromic surveillance program.