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Public Health Data Fusion for Synergy

142nd APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition (November 15 - November 19, 2014): http://www.apha.org/events-and-meetings/annual
Tuesday, November 18, 2014 : 11:10 AM - 11:30 AM

Jay V. Schindler, MPH PhD , Public Health Division, Northrop Grumman Corporation, Atlanta, GA
As the data deluge progresses, opportunities grow to align or link disparate public health and other data sets to generate useful information and insight for decision support and enlightened practice. This session examines major approaches to data fusion, epidemiologic perspectives to align multiple data sources, and the presenter’s results from aligning various data sets examining community resources and indicators, public health metrics, and open data.

Learning Areas:

Planning of health education strategies, interventions, and programs

Learning Objectives:
Describe different approaches to performing data fusion or data linking to help facilitate the examination of public health and community data.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I have been involved as the principal data scientist involved in multiple Independent Research and Development (IRaD) projects at Northrop Grumman Corporation (Public Health Operating Unit) which include the examination, cleansing, integration, analysis, visualization, and reporting of public health and community data for the investigation of health promotion and disease prevention activities. I have been involved in linking and aligning multiple data sets to derive synergistic benefits from such efforts.
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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