3133.0: Monday, October 22, 2001: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM

Oral Session

Technological Approaches to Public Health Surveillance, Preparedness, Dissemination and Education: In Memoriam of Anita Burney

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement.
Learning Objectives: 1) Appreciate the variety of uses that electronic systems can have for the public health community 2) Learn about web-based applications to enhance performance of public health programs 3) Understand contribution of web-based recordkeeping for public health surveillance and tracking
Moderator(s):Thomas G. Lacher, MPA
Organizer(s):Victoria H. Raveis, PhD
2:30 PMEvaluating data sources for syndromic surveillance
Melissa W. McClung, Arthur J. Davidson, MD, MSPH, Richard L. Vogt, MD, Stephen V. Cantrill, MD, Richard H. Jones, PhD
2:45 PMWest Virginia Health Initiatives Project (WVHIP): Going to scale: Putting guidelines into practice to improve the value of diabetes disease state management
Henry G. Taylor, MD, MPH, Catherine K. Taylor, Cecil R. Pollard, Elizabeth S. Lawton, RN, JD, Jean Polatsek, Peggy Adams, RNC, MSN, CDE, Barbara H. Bodnar, RN, MS, CDE, Trisha M. Petitte, Mary Swim
3:00 PMDeveloping Internet capacity in rural communities to support public health partnerships through the CDC Health Alert Network
James Aspevig, MS, Todd Damrow, PhD
3:15 PMPreparing for the worst: Enhancing daily public health capacity through local preparedness planning
Scott Wetterhall, MD, MPH, William Dyal, Robert Blake, Darren Collins, Erich Daub, Sara Forsting, Kim Taylor, Richard Quartarone, Ariane Reeves
3:30 PMWeb-based grant application/survey for local public health agencies: Minnesota's experience
Myrlah Olson, BSN, MPH
Sponsor:Medical Care
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Work

The 129th Annual Meeting of APHA