Washington State (WA) has developed and recorded three ESSENCE trainings for their staff. These include trainings for basic, intermediate, and advanced ESSENCE skills.
WA ESSENCE Trainings
Training
The National Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP) Team hosted the 3rd webinar of its Fall 2020 New Site Onboarding Window on November 16, 2020. The webinar orients viewers to the Access & Management Center (AMC), AMC Data Access Rules, and ESSENCE.
View the recording of the webinar here.
The National Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP) Team hosted the 2nd webinar of its Fall 2020 New Site Onboarding Window on October 27, 2020. The webinar focuses on data ingestion into the NSSP BioSense Platform and data quality checks and reports.
View the recording of the webinar here.
The Syndromic Surveillance Training Resources document compiles resources and training that public health practitioners can utilize when learning about syndromic surveillance practice. See the document outline below.
The NSSP Community of Practice hosted its 6th ESSENCE Q&A session on Monday, July 20, 2020. During the call, Aaron Kite-Powell (CDC) and Wayne Loschen (JHU-APL) provided NSSP-ESSENCE updates and answered the community's questions on ESSENCE functions and features.
View the webinar recording here or via the embedded video above.
Marcus Rennick, Epidemiologist with the Marion County Public Health Department (WV), provides an overview/training on the BioSense System.
Time Overview:
(45 minutes) Syndromic Surveillance and BioSense Overview
(90 minutes) Hands-on BioSense Tutorial
(20 minutes) Introduction and hands-on to other ways to access the data than just the front end application
(20 minutes) Resources and Community Support
Description
Schools inherently foster the transmission of infections from person to person because they are a group setting in which people are in close contact and share supplies and equipment. Surveillance is important in schools and actions that can help control the spread of infections are the key to effective disease control in the community [1]. School health physicians should play an important role in surveillance. Their training on data collection, analysis, reporting and importance of feedback is recommended in order to improve the disease surveillance system and therefore the prevention and control of diseases.
Objective
We assessed the effect of a training program on the knowledge of school physicians regarding surveillance. The purpose of evaluation is to improve the information provided and thereby help improve service provision and delivery.