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Session: Environmental Public Health Tracking - Utilizing Informatics for Environmental Surveillance
3095.0: Monday, November 06, 2006: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Oral
Environmental Public Health Tracking - Utilizing Informatics for Environmental Surveillance
This session will focus on the Environmental Public Health Tracking (EPHT) Network. The session will consist of four panelists presenting EPHT from the perspectives federal, state, local, and academic stakeholders. Each presentation will run between 15 and 18 minutes with a question and answer period at the end of the session.
Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of this session, the participant(learner) will be able to: 1) Describe the information gap that the National EPHT Network will be designed to fill and necessary steps for implementing EPHT networks at the state and national level; 2) Learn about specific focus areas for environmental and health outcomes population surveillance; 3) Review lessons learned from state and local pilot projects linking health and environmental data; and 4) Demonstrate the opportunity the National EPHT Network presents to bring together the often disparate fields of environmental monitoring, environmental health and chronic disease prevention in order to work towards a coordinated information systems.
Moderator(s):Alex Charleston
10:30 AMActive Surveillance for a Local Health Department: The Pittsburg Model  [ Recorded presentation ]
LuAnn Brink, PhD, Michael Wagner, MD, Evelyn Talbot, DrPH, Jo Ann Glad, RN, MPH, Jeanne Zborowski, Gerald Barron, MPH, Bruce W. Dixon, MD
10:50 AMSTELLAR to MOHSAIC: An Environmental Public Health Tracking integrated linking demonstration project  [ Recorded presentation ]
Roger Gibson, MPH
11:10 AMSpatial data analytical tools for linking environmental surveillance data to health outcomes: Application to data from a Local Health Department  [ Recorded presentation ]
Ravi K. Sharma, PhD, Xiaohui Xu, Evelyn Talbot, DrPH, LuAnn Brink, PhD, Jeanne Zborowski
11:30 AMEnvironmental Public Health Tracking (EPHT): Building a Sustainable Standards-based National Network  [ Recorded presentation ]
Judy Qualters, PhD, Alex Charleston
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:APHA-Innovations Project
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

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