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Sunday, June 9, 2013: 8:30 AM-5:00 PM
Ballroom B (Pasadena Convention Center)
This full day workshop will provide an opportunity for public health surveillance professionals from across the country and staff from CDC’s Public Health Surveillance and Informatics Program Office and Office of Infectious Diseases to discuss the rapidly changing world of public health surveillance, discuss challenges and opportunities, share best practices, and discuss plans for the future. Discussion will focus on two large national surveillance systems, the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS) and BioSense. The morning session of the workshop will focus on NNDSS and will provide updates on current efforts underway at CDC to improve the sending, receiving, and processing of NNDSS data, as well as review some recent findings from an evaluation of NNDSS conducted by CSTE from the perspective of local and state health department staff. The afternoon session of the workshop will focus on BioSense and will provide an overview of the BioSense Program and discuss data sharing, operational issues, and functionalities implemented or needed by users. Presenters will provide perspectives of local, state, and national surveillance stakeholders.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Develop practical understanding of internal CDC responses to NNDSS Evaluation Phases I and II
- Gain insight about local and state perspectives and recommendations from the NNDSS Evaluation Phase II
- Identify elements in conducting a BioSense evaluation
- Gain insight about local and state perspectives on maximizing use of syndromic surveillance data and future directions and opportunities.
8:45 AM
Actions taken in response to NNDSS Evaluation Phase I (Kathleen Gallagher, Jeffrey Kriseman)