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  • Qatar experience on MERS-CoV One Health Surveillance and Response, 2012 - 2015

    Content Type: Case Study

    The emergence of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Corona Virus (MERS-CoV) in 2012 had placed a great concern on the public health institutions globally and in particular in the Arab region. The gaps in knowledge related to the novel virus put… read more
    … by the WHO, FAO and OIE, and had been used to provide guidance for studies and prevention measures in Qatar and in … barrier to overcome. Appropriate technical surveillance guidance from the veterinary sector, and (2) the poor risk …
  • Syndromic Surveillance Regional Data Sharing Workshop: HHS Region 5

    Content Type: Report

    Thirteen surveillance professionals from seven state and local public health agencies in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service (HHS) Region 5 planned and participated in the 2-day Workshop. The participants selected data sharing… read more
    … – Participants worked with the Workshop facilitator to document the benefits, barriers, and solutions to sharing … practices, and public health business practices. • Document and describe Workshop outputs related to syndromic …
  • Outbreak Observatory: Conducting operational research during outbreaks to improve preparedness and response

    Content Type: Webinar

    Presented June 27, 2018. During this presentation, researchers discussed how Outbreak Observatory, a pilot project initiated by the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, facilitated the conduct of real-time operational research during… read more
    … and Engineering, Bloomberg School of Public Health. Document Outbreak Observatory.pdf … rapid and effective outbreak detection and response? • Document and disseminate broader lessons learned o What … and response activities for outbreaks and epidemics o Document and analyze challenges to identify strategies and …
  • Exploring the Expanded PHIN Messaging Guide for Syndromic Surveillance

    Content Type: Webinar

    ISDS, in collaboration with and with the support of CDC, recently released a new version of the PHIN Messaging Guide for Syndromic Surveillance. This Guide expands on previous versions and includes specifications for transmitting… read more
    …  with  hospitals   –  It  is  not,  however….   •  A  guidance  for  ambulatory  clinical  seCngs     in  general …  their   syndromic  surveillance  systems   –  Provides  guidance  for  local  implementaBons  of  syndromic   …
  • Regional Syndromic Surveillance Data Sharing Workshop: HHS Region 10

    Content Type: Report

    The HHS Region 10 workshop engaged nine participants from state and local public health departments in Idaho, Oregon, and Washington with experience in syndromic surveillance that ranged from less than 1 year to over 10 years. Representatives from… read more
    … – Participants worked with the Workshop facilitator to document the benefits, barriers, and solutions to sharing … processes; and public health business practices. • Document and describe Workshop outputs related to syndromic …
  • Text mining using tidy data principles

    Content Type: Webinar

    Presented April 25, 2018. Text data is increasingly important in many domains, and tidy data principles and tidy tools can make text mining easier and more effective. I will demonstrate how we can manipulate, summarize, and visualize the… read more
    … Julia Silge , PhD, Data Scientist, Stack Overflow  Document Silge_Text_Mining.pdf View Julia Silge's blog here … rows Which words contribute to each sentiment? WHAT IS A DOCUMENT ABOUT? T I D Y T E X T TERM FREQUENCY INVERSE DOCUMENT FREQUENCY TF-IDF T I D Y T E X T > book_words <- …
  • Visualization of Syndromic Surveillance Using GIS

    Content Type: Abstract

    Syndromic Surveillance has been in use in New York City since 2001, with 2.5 million visits reported from 39 participating emergency departments, covering an estimated 75% of annual visits. As syndromic surveillance becomes increasingly spatial and… read more
    … with GIS can standardize and expedite results. Document … user processes provides a way to standardize analysis, document procedures and more effectively complete GIS …
  • Validation of Data from Medical Registrations in The Netherlands for Syndromic Surveillance Use: Comparing Respiratory Syndromes with Laboratory Surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    Objective To study if syndromic surveillance would have an added value over existing surveillance systems, we retrospectively evaluated whether known trends in respiratory pathogens are reflected in medical registrations in the… read more
    … using the CDC syndrome grouping of ICD9 codes as a guidance after translating the codes to the coding systems …