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Game Plan: Communicable Disease Surveillance for Super Bowl XLVIII - New Jersey, 2014

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In the summer of 2013, the New Jersey Department of Health (NJDOH) began planning for Super Bowl XLVIII to be held on February 2, 2014, in Met Life Stadium, located in the Meadowlands of Bergen County in northeast New Jersey.  NJDOH Staff participated in the larger planning committee of the Department which was further coordinated at the state level by the New Jersey State Police and other law enforcement and emergency response agencies. 



A principal component of NJDOH’s Super Bowl surveillance activities included the utilization of an existing online syndromic surveillance system, EpiCenter.  EpiCenter, developed by Health Monitoring Systems, Inc. (HMS), incorporates statistical management and analytical techniques to process health-related data in real time.  This presentation will review how surveillance activities were planned and implemented and discusses outcomes and post-event conclusions. 

Presenter

Teresa Hamby, MSPH

Data Analyst, Communicable Disease Service,

New Jersey Department of Health 

Learning Objectives

  1. Describe the planning process leading up to Super Bowl XLVIII in NJ
  2. Give a brief overview of the data and analyses used for surveillance before, during and after the event
  3. Provide a summary of the results and conclusions after the event-Describe the Super Bowl XLVIII planning structure