 | The 131st Annual Meeting (November 15-19, 2003) of APHA |
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| The 131st Annual Meeting (November 15-19, 2003) of APHA |
Nancy G. Maynard, PhD, Healthy Planet Program, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 900, Greenbelt, MD 20771, 301-614-6572, Robert.A.Venezia@nasa.gov
Remotely-sensed data and observations are providing powerful new tools to public health practitioners for addressing environment, weather, and climate-related health threats. These tools provide new capabilities for enhancing public health surveillance systems. The NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s Healthy Planet program is working with public health partner agencies to provide the most useful and timely remote sensing data for monitoring, tracking, mapping, and ultimately predicting exposure to risk factors of interest to public health decision- and policy-makers. NASA Earth system science results, advanced data processing and communication technology, and unique expertise in information integration and transfer are the raw materials of the Healthy Planet program. This presentation will describe several projects that address national public health priorities including asthma, multi-state incident response, malaria, and other ecologically-coupled vector-borne diseases. Each project demonstrates how NASA assets and Healthy Planet's multi-disciplinary partnerships contributed to the decision support requirements of the public health practice community.
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Presenting author's disclosure statement:
I do not have any significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.