Community of Practice

Dengue Hemorrhagic fever is the most important mosquito-borne viral disease in Indonesia and the most rapidly spreading over the past 40 years. It is a major cause of morbidity and mortality especially among children. Beside of that, larval habitats are increasing rapidly in Padang city as urban areas. It refers to poor populations lacking basic health services. Effective bottom-up community participation increasingly is recognized as an important component of environmentallysustainable control programs. But community based health service action become weak recently in Padang Indonesia. It needs some new energy to strengthen2. Adoption of social capital concept into the program could be a way out. An action research through communitybased approaches is developed to reduce disease transmission and environmental management for control of dengue hemorrhagic fever.

Objective

This presentation aims to developed comprehensive dengue hemorrhagic fever vector control by new approach social mobilization of city residents in Padang, West Sumatera, Indonesia and to monitor its sustainability of the program for 4 years.

Knowledge Management is defined as “the process of capturing, distributing, and effectively using knowledge.” ISDS members have varying degrees of experience with public health surveillance and syndromic surveillance specifically, and will all benefit from more structured access to documentation on components related to syndromic surveillance, including but not limited to, the onboarding of facilities, data quality monitoring tools, case definitions, and data processing tools. To build a knowledge management capability, the first step is to gather initial requirements and priorities from the CoP.

Objective

The purpose of the roundtable is to seek feedback from attendees on the components needed to improve syndromic surveillance practice through access to the shared knowledge, practices, and tools of the ISDS Community of Practice (CoP).

BioSense 2.0 has become a platform for technical receipt and analysis of syndromic surveillance data for many jurisdictions nationwide, as well as a collaborative effort that has engaged a larger community of syndromic surveillance practitioners, Governance Group, and federal agencies and organizations. The potential longterm benefits of BioSense 2.0 for resource and data sharing have at times been overshadowed by the short-term limitations of the system and disconnected efforts among the CoP. In May 2014, representatives from 41 jurisdictions attended a 2-day, in-person meeting where four workgroups were formed to address on-boarding, data quality, data sharing and syndrome definition in an effort to advance changes that resonate with actual surveillance practice.

Objective

This roundtable will provide a forum for the syndromic surveillance Community of Practice (CoP) to learn about activities of the BioSense 2.0 User Group (BUG) workgroups that address priority issues in syndromic surveillance. It will be an opportunity to discuss key challenges faced by public health jurisdictions in the era of Meaningful Use and identify further needs and best practices in the areas of data quality, data sharing, onboarding, and developing syndrome definitions.

 

Although significant progress has been made in tobacco control in the United States (US) over the past 50 years, more than 15% of the population currently use tobacco products.1 Tobacco use continues to be the leading cause of preventable death, contributing to over 480,000 deaths and about $300 billion in economic costs each year. To achieve the Healthy People 2020 (HP2020) objective of 12% national adult smoking rate by 2020, it is important to focus our tobacco control efforts on surveillance and addressing disparities in tobacco use prevalence and tobacco-induced diseases across different subpopulations and geographic areas.2 Utah reported the lowest prevalence rate (9.7% in 2014), while rates as high as 28% were identified in central Appalachia. Modern epidemiology is limited in its ability to explain patterns of tobacco use and tobacco-related interventions and policies in these highly prevalent, marginalized environments. Therefore, a combination of quantitative and community-based participatory research (CBPR), as proposed in Public Health 3.0, will expand the scope and reach to address all factors of tobacco use, including cross-sector collaboration and multi-level actions.3 This study aimed to comprehensively investigate counties in the Northeast Tennessee region where tobacco use prevalence is disproportionately highest, and to identify regional and culturally specific evidence-based practices for tobacco control. Additionally, the study examined how these practices can be scaled up to address similar high tobacco use and disadvantaged populations elsewhere in the US and worldwide.

Objective

To examine community engagement as a means to strengthen tobacco-related policies and programs use in marginalized populations.

Syndromic surveillance systems are large and complex technology projects that increasingly require large investments of financial and political capital to be sustainable. What was once a minor surveillance tool in the mid-2000s has evolved into a program that is regarded as valuable to public health yet is increasingly difficult to maintain and operate for local health departments. The Houston Health Department installed a syndromic surveillance system (SyS) six years before Meaning Use became known to healthcare communities. The system chosen at the time was the Real-time Outbreak Disease Surveillance System (RODS) which, at the time and for its purpose, was a suitable platform for syndromic surveillance. During the past 13 years however, maintaining, operating, and growing a SyS by a local health department has become increasingly difficult. Inclusion in Meaningful Use elevated the importance and profile of syndromic surveillance such that network growth, transparency of operations, ease of data sharing, and cooperation with other state systems in Texas became program imperatives.

Objective

Describe and explain the transition of the syndromic surveillance program at the Houston Health Department (HHD) from being a locally managed and aging system to an ESSENCE system governed by a regional Consortium of public health agencies and stakeholders in the 13-county area of the southeast Texas

To obtain feedback and seek future directions for an ISDS initiative to establish and update research questions in Informatics, Analytics, Communications, and Systems Research with the greatest perceived impact for improving surveillance practice.