Sunday Sessions

Various workshops and national meetings will be held in conjunction with the 2013 CSTE Annual Conference on Sunday, June 9, 2013. Full conference registration includes admittance to one workshop, national meeting or training. Please view meeting descriptions for more information.
Workshops
Disaster Epidemiology: From Fukishima to Super Storm Sandy
Drug Use and Excessive Alcohol Epidemiology: Surveillance, Prevention, and Emerging Methods
Epi Info 7: A Users Workshop – Data Collection Strategies (AM Session)*
Epi Info 7: A Users Workshop – Data Analysis and Visualization (PM Session)*
Epidemiology Training: Development of Abstracts for Public Health Conference and Presentation of Epidemiologic and Public Health Data
Healthcare Associated Infections (HAI) Prevention Workshop
Health Information Technology Revolution – Implications for Public Health
Innovative Data and Approaches in Maternal and Child Health
Methods for Hypothesis Generation during Multistate Foodborne Disease Outbreak Investigations
Opportunities for Strengthening Public Health Surveillance
National Meetings
NASPHV Annual Business Meeting
National Meeting of Influenza Surveillance Coordinators
National Meeting of Occupational Health Epidemiologists
*Attendees may register for one or both workshops
Disaster Epidemiology: From Fukishima to Super Storm Sandy
Sunday, June 9, 2013 – Full Day
This workshop will address environmental epidemiology response during disasters, including sessions addressing manmade and extreme weather events. The goal and purpose of this workshop will be to discuss the role of environmental epidemiology in preparing for responding to and recovering from disasters. It is anticipated that discussion of natural disasters such as super storm Sandy (summary of the storm effects, illness and injury, surveillance efforts, environmental health response and the challenges which followed) will be prominent. Panel members representing states that have recent experience with hurricanes, ice storms and possibly large wild fires are also anticipated. Resources to be shared and presented include current approaches and tools that are in place for interview surveys and assessments (such as EHRMS, CASPER and ACE); tracking tools developed by the Environmental Public Health Tracking program; and best field use of these. The role of tracking data in disaster planning and response (baseline, assessing long term recovery, etc.) will be discussed as well as the use of syndromic surveillance in this novel situation.
Agenda:
8:30 – 8:50 am Introductions
Michael Heumann
  Welcome/Opening Remarks
Dan Smith, California Dept of Public Health
 
8:50-9:30 am – Syndromic Surveillance and Disaster Response
Moderator: Betsy Kagey, Georgia Department of Public Health
 
Speakers:
8:50-9:05 am Use of Florida’s Syndromic Surveillance System (ESSENCE) during Disasters and for Novel Events
Sharon Watkins, Florida Department of Health
9:05-9:20 am Disaster-related surveillance using NC DETECT
Grace Oguntebi and Amy Ising, North Carolina Division of Public Health
9:20-9:30 am Discussion
 
9:30-10:15 am – The Impact of the Fukushima Accident in Washington State (Or, the Emergency That Wasn’t)
Moderator: Sharon Watkins, Florida Department of Health
 
Shortly after the Japanese earthquake and tsunami occurred on March 11, 2011, the headlines began reporting: “deadly radiation cloud heading to the United States.” The media seemed to be competing to see who could scare the public the most, with internet bloggers doing the same. Along with the radiation protection programs in other states, the Washington Department of Health geared up to respond to public concerns, recognizing that an accident 5,000 miles away would have minimal health impact on our citizens. We responded to questions, fears and concerns, while collecting and analyzing environmental data to provide the proof of our statements. Although never a radiological emergency, this accident proved to be a public information emergency, requiring the establishment of a modified incident command structure to effectively respond. This presentation will describe our response to, and education of, our frightened and distrustful public.
 
Speaker:
9:35-10:05 am Al Conklin, Washington Department of Health
10:05-10:15 am Discussion
 
10:15-10:30 am – Break
 
10:30-12:00 pm – Disaster epidemiology tools for improving all-hazard disaster preparedness and response capacities: Community Assessment for Public Health Emergency Response (CASPER), Emergency Responder Health Monitoring & Surveillance (ERHMS) system, and Assessment of Chemical Exposure (ACE)
Facilitator: Mary Anne Duncan, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
 
To respond appropriately to the public health threats from disasters, timely and accurate information concerning community needs is required. Epidemiologic activities provide information to identify health problems and establish priorities for decision-makers. To assist state, local, tribal, and territorial (SLTT) health departments in conducting epidemiologic activities in response to all phases of the disaster life cycle, CDC’s National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH), CDC’s National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), and the Agency for Toxic Substances Disease Registry (ATSDR) developed the Community Assessment for Public Health Emergency Response (CASPER) methodology, Emergency Responder Health Monitoring and Surveillance (ERHMS), and Assessment of Chemical Exposures (ACE) respectively. These epidemiologic tools assist emergency preparedness and response by describing the distribution of exposures and outcomes; rapidly detecting hazards, outbreaks or clusters; identifying and implementing timely interventions; evaluating the impacts of public health efforts; and improving public health preparedness planning. The Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) disaster epidemiology subcommittee has been working closely with CDC/ATSDR to increase awareness and provide training on these tools. We will provide an overview of CASPER, ERHMS, and ACE; describe when they are most appropriate to be used; and identify how state, tribal, local, territorial, and regional public health practitioners can work with federal partners to use these tools. Data collection methods and analytic considerations will be discussed as well as examples of instances when they have been used and the applications of the information gathered by these tools:
  • CASPER is an epidemiologic technique for public health practitioners and emergency management officials designed to provide quickly and at low cost, household-based information about an affected community’s needs after a disaster. Public health officials and emergency managers can make informed decisions to prioritize their response activities and match available resources with identified needs.
  • ERHMS was developed to close gaps that existed in health monitoring and surveillance afforded to emergency responders and the need for both a comprehensive approach to protect responders and a practical guide on implementing such an approach. The ERHMS guidance was created by an interagency workgroup coordinated by NIOSH and published as a National Response Team Technical Assistance Document.
  • ACE was developed to be a resource to help SLTT health departments respond quickly and effectively to the emergency health challenges of chemical incidents. The ACE toolkit contains English/Spanish language surveys tools; forms for medical record abstraction and consent; a database to enter the data; and training materials.
Speakers:
10:30-11:00 am CASPER
Amy Wolkin, National Center for Environmental Health, Health Studies Branch
11:00-11:30 am ERHMS
Renée Funk, Epidemiologist, Emergency Preparedness and Response Office, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
11:30-12:00 pm ACE
Mary Anne Duncan, Epidemiologist, Division of Toxicology and Human Health Sciences, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
12:00 – 1:30 p.m. Lunch on your own
 
1:30 – 3:00 pm – Storm Trackers: Role of Local Environmental Public Health Tracking Programs during Super Storm Sandy
Moderator: Ekta Choudhary, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
 
Speakers:
1:30 – 1:50 pm EPHT as part of a collaborative storm response
Patricia Przysiecki, Connecticut Department of Public Health
1:50 – 2:10 pm Hurricane Sandy and the NYC Tracking Program’s Response
Sarah Walters and Nancy Loder Jeffery, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
2:10 – 2:30 pm Tracking Hurricane Sandy-Related Health Impacts in New Jersey with a Syndromic Surveillance System
Jerald A. Fagliano, New Jersey Department of Health
2:30 – 3:00 pm Question & Answer
 
3:00 – 3:15 pm – Break
   
3:15-3:45 pm Description of Federal Response to Hurricane Sandy
Amy Wolkin, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
 
Hurricane Sandy made landfall across the U.S. northeastern coastline on October 29, 2012 causing widespread infrastructure destruction and large scale evacuations from flood zones. In addition to the tens of billions of dollars in damages, “super-storm” Sandy claimed many lives. The affected states and federal government initiated large scale response to the storm. This presentation will describe various disaster epidemiology efforts conducted in response to Hurricane Sandy.
 
3:45 – 5:00 pm – Discussion and Demonstration of Radiation and Earthquake Monitoring Equipment
Moderator: John Neuberger, the University of Kansas
Erin Burkett, U.S. Geological Survey
Josephine Ortego, Los Angeles County Department of Public Health
   
CSTE Staff Contact:
Erin Simms
esimms@cste.org
Drug Use and Excessive Alcohol Use Epidemiology: Surveillance, Prevention, and Emerging Methods
Sunday, June 9, 2013 – 8:00am – 5:30pm
CSTE is offering a workshop on public health surveillance of drug use, excessive alcohol use and related harms. The rapid rise in opioid analgesic use and related mortality demonstrate the need for public health action in monitoring and addressing emerging trends. Excessive alcohol use is responsible for approximately 80,000 deaths per year and cost the U.S. approximately $223.5 billion in 2006. It is therefore important for epidemiologists working in local, state, and federal health agencies to be familiar with public health surveillance techniques and evidence-based prevention strategies for addressing these critical public health issues.
This workshop will feature subject matter experts who will discuss public health surveillance methods and findings on drug use and excessive alcohol use as well as more advanced topics, including evidence-based prevention strategies. With morning and afternoon sessions, the workshop will consist of didactic and interactive presentations interspersed with small discussion groups.
This workshop will be useful both for public health professionals with limited experience in drug use and excessive alcohol use epidemiology, as well as those with advanced expertise in these areas.
Learning Objectives:
  1. Understand basic alcohol and drug use surveillance activities that can be conducted within a health department and align these basic approaches across jurisdictions,
  2. Become knowledgeable of current evidence-based prevention strategies that can be implemented to address drug and alcohol-related issues,
  3. Learn new methodology and measurement tools for addressing emerging drug and alcohol-related public health issues, such as using spatial analysis to monitor alcohol outlet density or utilizing prescription drug monitoring systems to help reduce opioid analgesic misuse and decrease the risk of overdose,
  4. Provide a forum for discussing recent advances in public health surveillance and in the epidemiology of drug use and excessive alcohol use, as well as opportunities for collaboration between public health professionals working in these areas.
Tentative Agenda:
7:00 – 7:45 Breakfast (provided by CSTE)
8:00 – 8:30 Welcome, introductions, and workshop overview
8:30 – 9:40 Excessive Alcohol Use Surveillance 101
9:40 – 10:00 Facilitated Discussion
10:00 – 10:30 Morning Break (refreshments provided by CSTE)
10:30 – 11:40 Drug & Poisoning Surveillance 101
11:40 – 12:00 Facilitated Discussion
12:00 – 1:30 Lunch (on your own)
1:30 – 2:15 Prevention Strategies – Alcohol Policies
2:15-3:00 Prevention Strategies – Naloxone Use
3:00 – 3:30 Afternoon Break (refreshments provided by CSTE)
3:30 – 4:00 Emerging Methods –Alcohol Outlet Density
4:00 – 4:30 Emerging Methods – Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs
4:30 – 5:15 Facilitated Discussion
5:15 – 5:30 Wrap-up
CSTE Staff Contact:
Annie Tran
atran@cste.org
Epi Info™ 7: A Users Workshop – Data Collection Strategies (AM Session)*
Sunday, June 9, 2013 – 9:00am – 12:30pm
Epi Info™ is a public domain suite of software tools designed for the global community of public health practitioners and researchers. It provides for easy data entry form and database construction, a customized data entry experience, and data analyses with epidemiologic statistics, maps, and graphs for public health professionals who may lack an information technology background. Epi Info™ is used for outbreak investigations; for developing small to mid-sized disease surveillance systems; as analysis, visualization, and reporting (AVR) components of larger systems; and in the continuing education in the science of epidemiology and public health analytic methods at schools of public health around the world.
This workshop will provide an overview of the data collection aspects of Epi Info™. Participants will learn how to quickly design data collection forms using the Epi Info™ Form Designer and explore various options for collecting data using these forms. They will gain access to the CSTE Web Survey site and learn how to publish their Epi Info™ forms onto this site to collect data over the web. Participants will also learn how to load Epi Info™ forms onto mobile phones and tablets. These presentations will be followed by interactive learning opportunities conducted in small groups. Group exercises will consist of hands-on use of these tools to solve challenges in simulated scenarios based on community health assessments and an emergency response.
Participants are requested to bring their own laptops running Microsoft Windows (XP or above) with capability to connect to the conference’s wireless Internet.
Learning Objectives:
  • Understand how to develop data collection forms in Epi Info™ 7.
  • Understand how to publish data collection forms on CSTE’s website and download responses.
  • Understand how to use Epi Info™ data collection forms on tablets and smartphones.
  • Identify the appropriate Epi Info™ data collection tool for a given scenario.
  • Get specific Epi Info™ questions answered by an Epi Info™ expert.
Facilitators
Asad Islam
Epi Info team members (TBD)
CSTE Staff Contact:
Amanda Masters
amasters@cste.org
*Attendees may register for one or both workshops
Epi Info™ 7: A Users Workshop – Data Analysis and Visualization (PM Session)*
Sunday, June 9, 2013 – 1:30pm – 5:00pm
Epi Info™ is a public domain suite of software tools designed for the global community of public health practitioners and researchers. It provides for easy data entry form and database construction, a customized data entry experience, and data analyses with epidemiologic statistics, maps, and graphs for public health professionals who may lack an information technology background. Epi Info™ is used for outbreak investigations; for developing small to mid-sized disease surveillance systems; as analysis, visualization, and reporting (AVR) components of larger systems; and in the continuing education in the science of epidemiology and public health analytic methods at schools of public health around the world.
This workshop will provide an overview of the data analysis and visualization aspects of Epi Info™. Participants will learn how to set up dashboards to analyze data that was collected using Epi Info™, data that was collected on Excel spreadsheets and imported into Epi Info™, and data residing on enterprise or cloud databases. They will explore the various statistical analyses that can be performed using Epi Info™ and learn the limitations and appropriateness of each for a given data set. Participants will also learn how to load their data onto Epi Info™ Map to generate case cluster, dot density, and choropleth maps. These presentations will be followed by interactive learning opportunities conducted in small groups. Group exercises will consist of hands-on use of these tools to analyze and visualize various data sets and share results.
Participants are requested to bring their own laptops running Microsoft Windows (XP or above) with capability to connect to the conference’s wireless Internet.
Learning Objectives:
  • Understand how to create Epi Info™ 7 analytic dashboards.
  • Understand how to perform statistical analysis on different types of data sets.
  • Understand how to generate maps on Epi Info™ to visualize geographic data.
  • Get specific Epi Info™ questions answered by an Epi Info™ expert.
Facilitators
Asad Islam
Epi Info team members (TBD)
CSTE Staff Contact:
Amanda Masters
amasters@cste.org
*Attendees may register for one or both workshops
Epidemiology Training: Development of Abstracts for Public Health Conference and Presentation of Epidemiologic and Public Health Data
Sunday, June 9, 2013 – Full Day
CSTE, in collaboration with CDC, is offering a one day training on developing abstracts and presenting public health data.
Development of Abstracts for Public Health Conferences
The first part of the training will focus on developing abstracts for submission to public health conferences. The workshop format will be one didactic lecture followed by an interactive break-out session in which participants will be able to practice the techniques described in lecture with time for discussion and Q&A.
Learning objectives:
  1. Describe the key components of a scientific abstract
  2. Recognize common mistakes that prevent abstract selection
  3. Revise abstracts to improve quality
Presentation of Epidemiologic and Public Health Data
The second half of the day will focus on presenting epidemiologic data. The workshop format will be one didactic lecture followed by an interactive break-out session in which participants will be able to practice the techniques described in lecture with time for discussion and Q&A.
Learning objectives:
  1. Describe the format of an effective oral scientific presentation
  2. Recognize common mistakes in presentation format and delivery
  3. Revise presentation slides to improve quality
CSTE Staff Contact:
Amanda Masters
amasters@cste.org
Methods for Hypothesis Generation during Multistate Foodborne Disease Outbreak Investigations
Sunday, June 9, 2013 – Half Day‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬
Overview: CSTE, in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is offering a workshop on the methods for hypothesis generation during multistate foodborne disease outbreak investigations. Successful hypothesis development is an iterative and dynamic process. When exposure to a food is suspected, the investigators next must consider the large number of foods that may be the source or vehicle of infection. The number of different food items is vast. The investigation needs to narrow the list to the foods that the ill people actually ate before they got sick, and then further narrow it to the specific foods that many of the ill people remember eating. Health officials interview persons who are ill to find out where and what they ate in the days or weeks before they got sick. This workshop will review using descriptive epidemiology, standardized questionnaires and patient interviewing techniques, focusing on approaches to open-ended interviewing in order to generate hypotheses that explain the source of infections.
12:30pm –12:45pm OPENING/WELCOME
12:45pm – 1:30pm OVERVIEW OF HYPOTHESIS GENERATING PROCESS
  • What demographics and epi curves can tell you, learning from the history of PFGE patterns, past outbreaks with serotype/PFGE pattern, non-human isolates.
1:30pm – 2:15pm STARTING WITH THE SHOTGUN – Panel Discussion
  • Different flavors of the shotgun (OR, MN, NHGQ), assimilating and looking at data from questionnaires, searching for common exposures (including restaurants/grocery stores), sub clusters, shopper cards, receipts, the FoodNet population survey, using the binomial, when/how you narrow focus/shorten questionnaire or decide to move to “open ended” questions, traceback as part of the epi investigation, food testing as hypothesis testing.
2:15pm – 2:45pm CASE STUDY – Two real world examples of starting with the shotgun
  • Do you have a leading hypothesis?
  • When to revise, expand, and/or move to open ended interviewing?
2:45pm – 3:00pm LECTURE ON TIPS & TRICKS FOR OPEN ENDED INTERVIEWS FOR MULTISTATE INVESTIGATIONS
3:00pm – 3:30pm BREAK
3:30pm – 4:30pm CLASS PARTICIPATION IN OPEN-ENDED DISCUSSION
4:30pm – 4:45pm PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER – MULTISTATE OUTBREAK OF E. COLI O157 LINK TO PREPACKAGED COOKIE DOUGH
4:45pm – 5:00pm WRAP UP & EVALUATIONS
CSTE Staff Contact:
Dhara Patel dpatel@cste.org
Healthcare Associated Infections (HAI) Prevention Workshop
Sunday, June 9, 2013 – 9:30 am – 4:30 pm
This pre-conference workshop is geared toward HAI Coordinators, HAI Program Managers, and health department staff that are currently engaged or interested in HAI Prevention and Response activities. The workshop will be interactive, including health departments sharing their experiences and facilitated active dialogue among participants.By the end of the workshop, attendees will have a better understanding of how HAI programs and other health department activities can provide data for action to encourage HAI elimination across the continuum of care.
Learning Objectives:
  1. Provide a forum for states to share experiences, lessons learned, and “best practice” strategies in HAI prevention and surveillance, program sustainability, and communicating HAI data.
  2. Discuss outbreak management responsibilities and skills.
  3. Understand next steps in the National Healthcare Safety Network.
Agenda
9:30am – 11:30am State discussions
  • CRE, CDI across the healthcare spectrum
  • Communicating data to the public
  • Adding HAIs to a state’s notifiable disease list
  • OPEN DISCUSSION (including models for program sustainability)
11:30am – 1:00pm Lunch on your own
1:00pm – 2:45pm Outbreak management table top exercise (lessons learned and managing responsibilities during an outbreak)
BREAK
3:00pm – 4:30pm NHSN — From Surveillance to Prevention (upcoming NHSN changes, NHSN analysis strategies, using NHSN data to maximize prevention)
CSTE Staff Contact:
Meredith Lichtenstein
mlichtenstein@cste.org
Health Information Technology Revolution – Implications for Public Health
Sunday, June 9, 2013 – 8:30 am – 12:00 pm
The Meaningful Use (MU) regulations, part of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, and the Affordable Care Act helped accelerate health information technology (HIT) adoption in the past several years, and increasingly, state and local health departments are seeking to include HIT in their strategies to measure and manage population health. This workshop has been tailored to provide an overview of the current HIT landscape to stakeholders in population health management. The workshop will emphasize practical application and benefits that HIT transformation provides to those outside the traditional healthcare delivery system and specific examples that many local public health agencies may be involved in. The workshop has been crafted to provide baseline knowledge of HIT.
Learning Objectives:
  1. Describe the national policy initiatives that drive HIT adoption.
  2. Understand the current HIT terminology, Information systems within healthcare domain, and national HIT infrastructure design.
  3. Learn about HIT’s role in quality improvement, care coordination, patient engagement, self-management, shared decision making, remote monitoring, telemedicine, and transitions of care.
  4. Understand the role of HIT in population health management, epi and surveillance, and registries.
  5. Understand the role of social media and mobile technologies in patient engagement and population health.
  6. Discuss promising HIT enabled practices in public health.
CSTE Staff Contact:
Annie Tran
atran@cste.org
Innovative Data and Approaches in Maternal and Child Health
Sunday, June 9th, 2013 8:30am – 3:00pm
CSTE, in collaboration with CDC, is hosting a symposium that will spotlight current innovations in the use of data by Maternal and Child Health (MCH) epidemiologists. Rapid and ongoing changes in MCH programs and policy at the federal, state, and local level are challenging MCH epidemiologists to apply new approaches and uses of data. The first two sessions will provide examples from the field of using linked data and innovative methodological approaches to increase the information available for making program and policy decisions. The third session will feature novel data and approaches with Dr. Michael Kramer, Emory University, presenting on the creation of Georgia’s 13-year longitudinal maternal linked file, and its application to life course research. Dr. David Goodman, Division of Reproductive Health, CDC will lead the symposium over the course of the day, providing introductions and presenting opening and closing remarks.
These sessions are targeted to state, local, and tribal epidemiologists who are involved with developing information for guiding program and policy decisions, and while examples will be MCH focused, the data sources and approaches translate across multiple topic areas.
Tentative Agenda
8:30am-10:00am: Session I
10:00am-10:30am: Break
10:30am-12:00pm: Session II
12:00pm-1:30pm: Lunch
1:30pm-3:00pm: Session III (Dr. Michael Kramer)
CSTE Staff Contact: Annie Tran atran@cste.org
Opportunities for Strengthening Public Health Surveillance
Sunday, June 9, 2013 – 8:30am – 5:00pm
A joint session sponsored by CSTE and the CDC
This full day workshop will provide an opportunity for public health surveillance professionals from across the country and staff from CDC’s Public Health Surveillance and Informatics Program Office and Office of Infectious Diseases to discuss the rapidly changing world of public health surveillance, discuss challenges and opportunities, share best practices, and discuss plans for the future. Discussion will focus on two large national surveillance systems, the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS) and BioSense. The morning session of the workshop will focus on NNDSS and will provide updates on current efforts underway at CDC to improve the sending, receiving, and processing of NNDSS data, as well as review some recent findings from an evaluation of NNDSS conducted by CSTE from the perspective of local and state health department staff. The afternoon session of the workshop will focus on BioSense and will provide an overview of the BioSense Program and discuss data sharing, operational issues, and functionalities implemented or needed by users. Presenters will provide perspectives of local, state, and national surveillance stakeholders.
Learning Objectives:
  • Develop practical understanding of internal CDC responses to NNDSS Evaluation Phases I and II
  • Gain insight about local and state perspectives and recommendations from the NNDSS Evaluation Phase II
  • Identify elements in conducting a BioSense evaluation
  • Gain insight about local and state perspectives on maximizing use of syndromic surveillance data and future directions and opportunities.
Agenda:
8:30am – 8:45am Organizational update (Kathleen Gallagher)
8:45am – 9:15am Actions taken in response to NNDSS Evaluation Phase I (Kathleen Gallagher, Jeffrey Kriseman)
9:15am – 9:45am Overview of the NNDSS Evaluation Phase II – (Perry Smith)
9:45am – 10:00am CDC Office of Infectious Disease perspective about surveillance issues and future
10:00am – 10:15am Break
10:15am – 10:45am Results from the 2012 CSTE NEDSS Assessment (Erin Holt, Kathryn Turner)
10:45am – 12:00pm Local, State, and Territorial Perspectives/Discussion
12:00pm – 1:30pm Lunch on your own
1:30pm – 2:00pm BioSense: System Overview and Current Status (Kathleen Gallagher, Joseph Gibson)
2:00pm – 2:30pm Evaluation/Challenges in Operationalizing (Kathleen Gallagher)
2:30pm – 3:30pm Maximizing the value of BioSense 2.0… Local experiences and lessons learned
3:30pm – 3:45pm Break
3:45pm – 4:45pm Future Directions/ Opportunities for BioSense (Joseph Gibson)
4:45pm – 5:00pm Closing (Kathleen Gallagher)
CSTE Staff Contact:
Monica Huang
mhuang@cste.org
NASPHV Annual Business Meeting
Sunday, June 9, 2013 – Full Day
First incorporated in 1953, the National Association of State Public Health Veterinarians (NASPHV) is an organization of professionals with expertise in the prevention and control of zoonotic disease, as well as various other areas of veterinary public health. The majority of NASPHV members are veterinarians with advanced training and degrees in public health, and hold federal, state or local government positions. Because of the many members in common, shared goals and close working association with CSTE, NASPHV holds their annual meeting in conjunction with the CSTE Annual Conference. The meeting agenda includes organizational business, committee and compendium reports, brief presentations by members or others concerning issues of interest or concern, and a roundtable report by members as to the main issues/problems currently being faced in their state or territory. Stakeholder groups (CDC, USDA, and State Animal Health Officials) typically attend and present as well. CSTE conference attendees are welcome to attend.
CSTE Staff Contact:
Meredith Lichtenstein
mlichtenstein@cste.org
National Meeting of Influenza Surveillance Coordinators
Sunday, June 9, 2013 – Full Day
CSTE, in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, will be hosting an Influenza Surveillance Coordinators Workshop on Sunday, June 9, 2013 in conjunction with the CSTE Annual Conference. The purpose of the workshop is to provide a forum for jurisdictions and CDC to discuss current themes in influenza surveillance and to strengthen relationships and cooperation between influenza programs from health departments around the country.
Invited participants include Influenza Coordinators from state, territorial, and large local health departments. Participants will also include representatives from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This workshop is open to all registered attendees.
Learning Objectives:
  • Determine “best practice” strategies for influenza surveillance in health departments considering current and approaching budget constraints, including information regarding the RightSizing road map and implementation guidelines
  • Provide a forum for discussion of current themes and events in the field of influenza surveillance epidemiology and for collaboration between surveillance coordinators and CDC
An agenda will be provided to all participants on the day of the conference.
Facilitators:
Lynnette Brammer, CDC
Lenee Blanton, CDC
Krista Kniss, CDC
CSTE Staff Contact:
Andrea Giorgi
agiorgi@cste.org
Speakers:
CDC
Influenza Surveillance Coordinators
CSTE members
National Meeting of Occupational Health Epidemiologists
Sunday, June 9, 2013 – Full Day
A pre-conference workshop will be hosted by the Occupational Health Subcommittee. The morning session will feature presentations by invited technical, academic, and industry speakers on recent occupational health and safety issues and investigations in California. Session presentations will focus on such issues as the Cal-OSHA diacetyl standard and current status of popcorn flavoring exposures, occupational health issues stemming from the Hantavirus outbreak in Yosemite National Park, heat illness in California, the new California lead standard, and green chemistry regulations and biomonitoring.
In the afternoon session, speakers will discuss investigation and prevention activities from around the country related to occupational health and safety, including possible presentations on ATV related injuries and fatalities, updates on issues in the oil and gas industry such as fracking, opportunities for partnerships between local COSH groups and State Health Departments, new data and examples of occupational health issues for young workers, and the use of social media to further occupational health prevention efforts.
CSTE Staff Contact:
Erin Simms
esimms@cste.org