273123 Enabling More Public Health Utility: The MIDAS Experience

Wednesday, October 31, 2012 : 11:30 AM - 11:45 AM

Stephen Eubank, PhD , Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Laboratory, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
     
MIDAS modelers worked with HHS, CDC, state, and local public health officials during the H1N1 pandemic. In addition, several groups have ongoing collaborations with localities studying community-acquired MRSA, C. difficile, and pertussis. These examples suggest several useful models of interactions. This talk will offer a personal perspective of lessons learned, especially what the models have contributed, how communication between public health officials and modelers has worked, and what enables modelers to produce the most useful results.

Learning Objectives:
1. Understand public health system characteristics in relation to infectious disease control. 2. Recognize law and policy, economics and resources, and operational performance as public health system characteristics. 3. Identify at least one example of how variation in public health system characteristics might affect disease control outcomes.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I have been the principal investigator of a MIDAS research project for eight years. My current project focuses on creating models that are useful for public health decision-making.
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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