230226 Web 2.0 for ESF-8 response: Emerging opportunities for greater situational awareness

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Dina Passman, MPH, LT USPHS , Office of Preparedness and Emergency Operations, Fusion Cell, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, HHS, Washington, DC
Alicia Livinski, MPH, MLS , Library, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
  
In early 2009, the H1N1 (aka “swine flu”) pandemic created a unique opportunity for the public health community to enhance the processes of information gathering and dissemination through the use of emerging web-based social media tools (“Web 2.0”). The emergence of these tools has redefined the ways thru which information can be gathered and disseminated. The H1N1 pandemic presented a unique opportunity for the public health community to achieve enhanced Situational Awareness (SA) and emergency response thru the use of these social media tools.

Learning Objectives:
Learning Objective 1: Identify social networking tools employed by the public health community in response to the H1N1 pandemic. Learning Objective 2: Identify 3 public health organizations that used social networking tools to disseminate and exchange information during response to the H1N1 pandemic. Learning Objective 3: Propose 3 uses of social networking applications that would benefit the ESF-8 community in its H1N1 response.

Keywords: Surveillance, Infectious Diseases

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am qualified to present because I was involved in the development of the idea, selection of the resources, setting up of the interface and provided follow up assistance to the staff using the resources for monitoring.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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