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Data Sharing Among Three States in the BioSense Platform during the 2017 US Solar Eclipse
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In 2016, the BioSense Platform for national syndromic surveillance made substantial enhancements including data processing changes, a national ESSENCE instance, and management tools to support diverse data sharing needs. On August 21, 2017, a total… read more -
A Suite of Mechanistic Epidemiological Decision Support Tools
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We present the EpiEarly, EpiGrid, and EpiCast tools for mechanistically-based biological decision support. The range of tools covers coarse-, medium-, and fine-grained models. The coarse-grained, aggregated time-series only data tool (EpiEarly)… read more -
Analytics for Investigation of Disease Outbreaks (AIDO)
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Situational awareness, or the understanding of elemental components of an event with respect to both time and space, is critical for public health decision-makers during an infectious disease outbreak. AIDO is a web-based tool designed to… read more -
Status of Legislation and Factors affecting Disease Surveillance in Nigeria: A qualitative inquiry
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The outbreak of infectious diseases with a propensity to spread across international boundaries is on an upward rise. Such outbreaks can be devastating with significant associated morbidity and mortality. The recent Ebola Virus Disease outbreak in… read more -
Epi Archive: Automated Synthesis of Global Notifiable Disease Data
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Most countries do not report national notifiable disease data in a machine-readable format. Data are often in the form of a file that contains text, tables and graphs summarizing weekly or monthly disease counts. This presents a problem when… read more -
Visualization the dynamic interactive maps for results of spatio-temporal scanning
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Scan statistics is one of the most widely used method for detecting and locating the clusters of disease or health-related events through the space-time dimension. Although the Specific software of SatScan is available for free and easier to use… read more -
Developing policy to support novel Caribbean Tourism and Health surveillance program
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In January 2016, the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), serving 24 Member States(MS), began executing a regional Tourism and Health program (THP), recognizing that the health of Caribbean economies is closely related to the health of its… read more -
User Generated SQL Queries Inform Evaluation of NSSP ESSENCE
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As system users develop queries within ESSENCE, they step through the user-interface to select data sources and parameters needed for their query. Then they select from the available output options (e.g., time series, table builder, data details).… read more