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  • A multidisciplinary approach to an outbreak of canid Rabies in Gauteng Province, South Africa

    Content Type: Case Study

    On 3rd of June, 2010 a sick dog was presented to an Animal Welfare Agency. Biliary treatment unsuccessful and the dog was euthanased and tested positive for Rabies on FAT. In this mixed rural urban area of South Africa Rabies is an occasional… read more
    … __x_ Cross-Agency Communication and Collaboration ___ Training and Resources ___ Technologies and Methodologies …
  • Education as a mechanism to reduce spread of brucellosis among at-risk populations in Uzbekistan

    Content Type: Abstract

    One goal of the Biological Threat Reduction Program of the US Defense Threat Reduction Agency is the enhancement of surveillance of especially dangerous pathogens of both humans and animals within countries of the former Soviet Union. One of the… read more
    … healthcare professionals, delivered through BTRP regular training events, together with printed materials to be …
  • Mapping Tool between two code sets: ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-CM/PCS

    Content Type: Webinar

    Join ISDS on June 3rd for an instructional webinar on ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-CM/PCS mapping tools, including the newly released MapIt tool. This tool, which was developed by AHRQ and CDC, is an automated mapping tool that utilizes General Equivalence… read more
    …   Document Mapping_Tool_Between_Icd9_Icd10_Slides.pdf … Training Session Mapping Tool between code sets: ICD-9-CM … Learn more at www.syndromic.org Training)Session:) Mapping)Tool)between)two)code)sets) …
  • Application and Visualization of Twitter Data for Disease Surveillance

    Content Type: Webinar

    The panelists will present their current technical research using Twitter data for disease surveillance. Presentation topics may include filtering and processing of tweets, as well as the analysis and presentation of findings for surveillance… read more
    … and negative examples of Tweets have been labelled in a training set. This training set then used to construct the classifier. The …
  • Regional Syndromic Surveillance Data Sharing Workshop: HHS Region 4

    Content Type: Report

    A Regional Syndromic Surveillance Data Sharing Workshop was held in Health and Human Services (HHS) Region 4 on May 12-13, 2015 at the Emory University Rollins School of Public Health in Atlanta, GA. This was the seventh workshop in a… read more
    … Overall, the workshop evaluations indicated this training model was an effective way to establish and … (ED) dataset for data sharing during the workshop, the training begins with a collaborative assessment and … do this; 5) and, I know about/ can do this well enough to train someone else. The pre-workshop survey was administered …
  • Disease Profile Development Methodology for Syndromic Surveillance of Biological Threat Agents

    Content Type: Abstract

    Detection of biological threat agents (BTAs) is critical to the rapid initiation of treatment, infection control measures, and public health emergency response plans. Due to the rarity of BTAs, standard methodology for developing syndrome… read more
    … a common informatics lexicon and workforce engagement and training are critical to public health, especially for … denomi- nator along with the number of ILI cases. Proper training and selecting the right practice played a large … each type of these automatically extracted events using training data, which contain actual health alerts, in …
  • A Multidisciplinary One Health Approach to Mosquito Management

    Content Type: Case Study

    Large mosquito outbreaks mysteriously began to recur annually in Western Kentucky beginning in 2011. With up to 30 bites/minute in urban areas, these outbreaks warranted Governor-declared public health emergencies requiring expensive ($2 million… read more
    … _x__ Cross-Agency Communication and Collaboration ___x Training and Resources ___ Technologies and Methodologies …
  • Developing a Transdiciplinary Database Template for Operationalization of One Health Surveillance of Japanese Encephalitis and Other Vector Borne Diseases in India

    Content Type: Case Study

    Vector borne diseases like Japanese Encephalitis (JE) result from the convergence of multiple factors, including, but not limited to, human, animal, environmental, and economic and social determinants. Thus, to combat these problems, it is essential… read more
    … __x_ Cross-Agency Communication and Collaboration ___ Training and Resources _x__ Technologies and Methodologies …