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  • Enhanced Surveillance for Aedes Mosquitoes in the Arizona Border Region

    Content Type: Case Study

    In 2014, a dengue outbreak affected northern Mexico and travel-associated dengue cases increased in southern Arizona. While Arizona has not detected a local dengue case, local transmission occurred in Nogales, Sonora, sister city of Nogales, Arizona… read more
    … __X_ Cross-Agency Communication and Collaboration _X__ Training and Resources __X_ Technologies and Methodologies … ages and educational levels. By offering educational training sessions, we raised interest in the project and …
  • Promoting the One Health Approach to prevent wildlife-borne zoonotic diseases in Bolivia – Yellow fever outbreak case study

    Content Type: Case Study

    Immediate detection and response to zoonotic disease outbreaks in animals are valuable strategies to prevent infections in humans. Detection and early warning of wildlife-borne pathogens are often limited by the lack of sensitized observers,… read more
    … _x__ Cross-Agency Communication and Collaboration __x_ Training and Resources ___ Technologies and Methodologies … PREDICT team in Bolivia. Thus, increasing awareness and training veterinarians, biologist, rangers and local …
  • Use of Syndromic Surveillance in the Investigation of Salmonella Wandsworth Outbreak

    Content Type: Abstract

    On June 22, 2007 increases in over-the-counter (OTC) electrolyte and child anti-fever medication sales were detected through routine OTC surveillance. Increases in emergency department (ED) data for gastrointestinal (GI) illness among… read more
    … Early notification of the EDs could also aide in ob- taining clinical specimens as new potential cases pre- sent … from EDs need to be developed, either through staff training or remote access by DOHMH. References: [1] Balter …
  • Enhancing Nebraska's Rabies Surveillance using Electronic Public Health Cases Reports and ESSENCE

    Content Type: Case Study

    Accurate and timely reporting of animal rabies test results and potential human exposures is necessary to guide case management and define rabies epidemiology. Accordingly, Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services (NDHHS) collaborated with… read more
    … _ X __ Cross-Agency Communication and Collaboration _X__ Training and Resources __X_ Technologies and Methodologies … for rabies exposure case management yet varying levels of training and skill exist among surveillance staff. To …
  • Access to and use of syndromic surveillance information at the local health department level

    Content Type: Abstract

    Syndromic surveillance data have been widely shown to be useful to large health departments. Use at smaller local health departments (LHDs) has rarely been described, and the effectiveness of various methods of delivering syndromic… read more
    … of syndromic surveillance data, as well as provision of training, may increase use of this information at the local …
  • Expanding a Gazetteer-based Approach for Geo-Parsing Text from Media Reports on Global Disease Outbreaks

    Content Type: Abstract

    HealthMap (www.healthmap.org) is a freely accessible, automated real-time system that monitors, organizes, integrates, filters, and maps online news about emerging diseases. The system performs geographic parsing (“geo-parsing”) of disease… read more
    … outbreaks, retrieved by HealthMap in 2007, is used as the training dataset. The words in the articles are tagged with … The experiments also reveal that providing additional training material improves the performance of the model, …
  • Support Vector Machines for Syndromic Surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    Early and reliable detection of anomalies is a critical challenge in disease surveillance. Most surveillance systems collect data from multiple data streams but the majority of monitoring is performed at univariate time series… read more
    … to the algorithm [2] that requires only positive training examples, in our case - the normal (no outbreak) … presented to the epidemiologist. INITIAL RESULTS The training was performed on ESSENCE data with disease …
  • Executive Summary of the ISDS DTRA Consultancy Project 2014-2017

    Content Type: Report

    The International Society for Disease Surveillance (ISDS) fills the need for a practical forum and coordinating mechanism for collaboration among subject matter experts (SMEs) from stakeholder groups that may normally not interact but who, when… read more
    … analytics. Connecting public health staff with additional training in data analytics will strengthen public health … generated great discussion was the lack of opportunity to train existing health department staff in data analytics and … identified public health practice/tool and to identify training opportunities in data analysis for public health …