Harnessing the Power of a Data Warehouse and Applications for Maternal and Child Health (MCH)

Health Information Technology and Quality Reporting 101 for Chronic Disease Epidemiologists

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Chronic Disease / MCH / Oral Health Assessing the Impact of Disasters on Reproductive Health: Implementation of the Reproductive Health Assessment after Disaster (RHAD) Toolkit

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Chronic Disease / MCH / Oral Health Poster Award Finalists Outstanding Poster Award finalists will be displayed the entire time from Sunday at noon through Wednesday at noon. Chronic Disease/MCH/Oral Health poster presentations are Monday, June 23 at 10:00 a.m.

Chronic Disease / MCH / Oral Health I Epi with Impact: Let the Data be the Guide

Chronic Disease / MCH / Oral Health II Finding Focus: Using Data to improve Maternal and Child Health

Chronic Disease / MCH / Oral Health CD/MCH/OH Steering Committee Update - New Members Welcome

Chronic Disease / MCH / Oral Health I Health Information Technology for Healthy Weight Surveillance

Chronic Disease / MCH / Oral Health II Preventive Care and Screening: How Are We Doing in Kentucky and Rhode Island?

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Chronic Disease / MCH / Oral Health Opportunities for Building CD/MCH/OH Epidemiology Capacity: Results from the 2013 National Epidemiology Capacity Assessment in CD/MCH/OH and Panel Discussions with CDC, NACDD, AMCHP, CityMatCH, and ASTDD

Chronic Disease / MCH / Oral Health National Mentorship Program in Applied Chronic Disease Epidemiology

Chronic Disease / MCH / Oral Health Proposed Enhanced Operational Definition of Healthy People 2020 Objective OH-16 to Define a Core Set of Elements of a State Oral Health Surveillance System

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Chronic Disease / MCH / Oral Health I Location, Location, Location: Geography and Chronic Disease

Chronic Disease / MCH / Oral Health II Rapid Fire Topics Across Life Stages

Chronic Disease / MCH / Oral Health Poster Round

Khosrow Heidari is the South Carolina State Chronic Disease Epidemiologist and directs the Chronic Disease Epidemiology Division within the Bureau of Community Health and Chronic Disease Prevention in DHEC. With the support of his team, he provides epidemiological support to the chronic disease programs within DHEC. He has shared the results of his research with regional and national audiences in the evaluation and epidemiology field through publications and presentations. He earned his MS degrees in Statistics and Management Science from USC and a Master of Arts in Economics from Wichita State University. He is a graduate of the South Eastern Public Health Leadership Institute at UNC.

Khosrow serves on the state’s Diabetes Advisory Committee, Heart Stroke Care Alliance and Asthma Alliance board. Prior to working at DHEC, he was senior statistician for the SC Alcohol & Drug Abuse Commission. For more than two decades, he has been a collaborator, researcher, educator and a mentor to many University of South Carolina (USC) graduate students. He is an adjunct instructor in the department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology and in the department of Health Services Policy and Management, Arnold School of Public Health, USC. He is on the Epilepsy research team and the SEVIEW (Health Equity and Wellness) at the Medical University of South Carolina. Currently,he serves as the chair of the NACDD’s Science and Epidemiology Committee and the Applied Chronic Disease Epidemiology Mentoring Program.

Sara Huston is the Lead Chronic Disease Epidemiologist for the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention and Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Applied Medical Sciences at the University of Southern Maine. She also currently serves on the Editorial Board of the journal Preventing Chronic Disease. Sara received her B.A. from Hampshire College and her Ph.D. in epidemiology from the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health. Sara began her career in applied chronic disease epidemiology as an Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) Officer assigned to the North Carolina Division of Public Health from 1995-1997. For the next 13 years, Sara served as the Cardiovascular Epidemiologist for the N.C. Division of Public Health until her move to Maine in 2010. She has worked on a number of national panels and committees related to chronic disease epidemiology, surveillance, and state-based capacity, including serving on the Executive Board of the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) as the Chair of the Chronic Disease, Maternal and Child Health, and Oral Health Committee; as the Vice-Chair of the Monitoring & Evaluation Implementation Group of the National Forum for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention; as a member of the CSTE/CDC Applied Epidemiology Competencies Expert Panel; and as a member of the Expert Panel on Monitoring, Evaluation, and Communication for the Public Health Action Plan to Prevent Heart Disease and Stroke.

Chronic Disease / MCH / Oral Health Challenges of CDC's 1305 Grant Performance Measures and Reporting

Chronic Disease / MCH / Oral Health I You CAN Teach an Old Dog New Tricks: New Uses of Existing Surveillance Approaches

Chronic Disease / MCH / Oral Health II To the Data and Beyond: Using Data to Improve Child Health Outcomes

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Chronic Disease / MCH / Oral Health I Innovations in Understanding Diabetes Surveillance

Chronic Disease / MCH / Oral Health II Impact of Personal and Social Determinants on Health Outcomes

Chronic Disease / MCH / Oral Health Development and Implementation of a Culturally Competent Storytelling Based Educational Intervention to Prevent Early Childhood Caries in American Indian/Alaska Native Populations in California

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Chronic Disease / MCH / Oral Health I Not Your Father's BRFSS: Leveraging an Existing System for New Information

Chronic Disease / MCH / Oral Health II Evaluation with an Impact: Evaluating Policies, Programs, and Data Sources

Chronic Disease / MCH / Oral Health - NEW Discussions on Quality Improvement in Maternal and Child Health

Chronic Disease / MCH / Oral Health I Asthma Surveillance: Examples from Three States

Chronic Disease / MCH / Oral Health II A Medley of Chronic Disease and Maternal and Child Health Issues

Chronic Disease / MCH / Oral Health Position Statement Discussions - Members Only