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  • Linking Emergency Medical Service Data to Death Records for Opioid Mortality Surveillance

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    Opioid abuse has increased exponentially in recent years throughout the United States, leading to an increase in the incidence of emergency response activities, hospitalization, and mortality related to opioid overdose. As a result, states that have… read more
    … and acute treatment, first responder and hospital staff training, cross-agency collaboration, and Incident … and acute treatment, first responder and hospital staff training, cross-agency collaboration, and Incident …
  • Lessons Learned from a DoD and Virginia Data Sharing Pilot using NSSP ESSENCE

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    The DoD and VDH both maintain local ESSENCE installations to monitor the health status of their military and civilian populations, respectively, and submit syndromic surveillance data to the NSSP ESSENCE to foster data sharing and collaborative… read more
    … implementation of data sharing with a focus on personnel, training, and managing access and 3) communication between … implementation of data sharing with a focus on personnel, training, and managing access and 3) communication between …
  • Seeing Data in a New Light: Data Visualization Techniques to Improve Understanding

    Content Type: Abstract

    In 2002, the United States (US) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) launched the National Environmental Public Health Tracking Program (Tracking Program) to address the challenges and gaps in the nation'™s environmental health… read more
    … can be challenging. For data consumers without scientific training, or even scientists and public health professionals … can be challenging. For data consumers without scientific training, or even scientists and public health professionals …
  • Capacity and Needs Assessment for Establishing a Syndromic Surveillance System in Rural China: A Mixed Study

    Content Type: Abstract

    Syndromic surveillance has great advantages in promoting the early detection of infectious disease outbreak and enabling the real-time tracking of on-going epidemics. However, establishing a syndromic surveillance system required huge investment in… read more
    … system, so as to design customized capacity building and training strategies. Submitted by knowledge_repo… on Wed, … system, so as to design customized capacity building and training strategies. … Capacity and Needs Assessment for …
  • Examining and improving reproducible research practices in public health

    Content Type: Abstract

    An important goal of surveillance is to inform public health interventions that aim to reduce the burden of disease in the population. Ensuring accuracy of results is paramount to achieving this goal. However, science is currently facing a… read more
    … SEER, and others. As part of our overall goal to improve training around reproducible research practices, we surveyed … SEER, and others. As part of our overall goal to improve training around reproducible research practices, we surveyed …
  • Field-based Evaluation of Malaria Outbreak Detection & Response, Mudzi and Goromonzi

    Content Type: Abstract

    Infectious disease outbreaks, such as the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, highlight the need for surveillance systems to quickly detect outbreaks and provide data to prevent future pandemics. The World Health Organization (WHO) developed the Joint… read more
    … surveillance improvement initiatives, such as enhanced training or strengthening data transfer mechanisms before … surveillance improvement initiatives, such as enhanced training or strengthening data transfer mechanisms before …
  • Potential Applications of Emerging Technologies in Disease Surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    With the increase in the amount of public health data along with the growth of public health informatics, it is important for epidemiologists to understand the current trends in technology and the impact they may have in the field. Because it is… read more
    … provided by emerging technologies may guide future training and continuing education for public health … provided by emerging technologies may guide future training and continuing education for public health …
  • Streamlined Development of Analytic Fusion Capability for Health Surveillance

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    The motivation for this project is to provide greater situational awareness to DoD epidemiologists monitoring the health of military personnel and their dependents. An increasing number of data sources of varying clinical specificity and timeliness… read more
    … R packages which provide more comprehensive tools for BN training and development. These results will allow us to … epidemiologists. We employ software tools that build and train Bayesian networks (BNs) to facilitate the development … detect outbreaks with greater accuracy. We use historical training data on the ability to detect outbreaks of …