Austin Public Health creates a variety of syndromic surveillance reports for events throughout the Austin, Texas metropolitan area. These events range from responses to major disasters such as the 2017 Hurricane Harvey sheltering to ongoing special event monitoring such as University of Texas football games and the Austin City Limits music festival. Partnerships within the Austin metropolitan region are crucial to ensuring the information-sharing necessary to create robust reports, as well as during the follow-up process of requesting feedback from partners on the usefulness of the reports. Austin Public Health's Public Health Emergency Preparedness program utilizes a variety of tools and resources to create informative, event-specific, and engaging reports, fulfilling multiple reporting needs for all partners.
Objective: Austin Public Health's Public Health Emergency Preparedness program utilizes a variety of tools and resources to create informative, event-specific, and engaging syndromic surveillance reports to share 1) internally within Austin Public Health; 2) with City of Austin and Travis County partners; 3) local health care coalition members; and 4) the public during events that affect the Austin, Texas metropolitan area.