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in silico Surveillance: Informing Surveillance with Simulation
Content Type: Webinar
Simulations of infectious disease spread have increasingly been used to inform public policy for planning and response to outbreaks. As these techniques have increased in sophistication a wider array of uses becomes appropriate. In particular,… read more -
Community-based Health Systems Strengthening: Randomized, Controlled Trial of a Mobile Health Intervention in Nepal
Content Type: Webinar
Globally, over seven million children under the age of five die each year. A suite of interventions, including safe delivery care, neonatal care and resuscitation, and management of childhood diarrhea, malnutrition, and pneumonia, can prevent many… read more -
Weather Outlook: Cloudy with a Chance of...— Classification of Storm-Related ED Visits
Content Type: Abstract
Hurricane ‘Superstorm’ Sandy struck New Jersey on October 29, 2012, causing harm to the health of New Jersey residents and billions of dollars of damage to businesses, transportation, and infrastructure. Monitoring health outcomes for increased… read more -
Using Scenarios and Simulations to Validate Syndromic Surveillance Systems
Content Type: Abstract
Whilst the sensitivity and specificity of traditional laboratory-based surveillance can be readily estimated, the situation is less clear cut for syndromic surveillance. Syndromic surveillance indicators based upon presenting symptoms, chief… read more -
Obtainable and Sustainable: Open Source Solutions for the Future of Public Health
Content Type: Webinar
Public health can harness the power of increasingly available health population data to improve practice and effectively allocate resources to areas of need. The driving forces of Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) and Meaningful Use are changing… read more -
SMART Platforms: Building The App Store for Biosurveillance
Content Type: Webinar
Health care information is a fundamental source of data for biosurveillance, configuring electronic health records to report relevant data to health departments is technically challenging, labor intensive, and often requires custom solutions for… read more -
An introduction to leaflet maps in R
Content Type: Webinar
Presented September 19, 2017. The main goal of this talk is to demonstrate map making in R using leaflet. We will cover trivial and non-trivial examples. I use the data.table package as my default data container and for all data… read more -
World Trade Center Responders Fatality Investigation Program - Methodologic Issues
Content Type: Webinar
Presenter Kitty H. Gelberg, PhD, MPH, Chief, Epidemiology & Surveillance Section, Assistant Director, Bureau of Occupational Health, New York State Department of Health Date and Time… read more