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Table of Contents

General Information

President's Welcome and Program Notes 2

Executive Director's Welcome 3

ISDS Board of Directors 3

ISDS Mission 4

Annual Awards 5

National Syndromic Surveillance Program Community of Practice 6

Program Chairs Welcome 8

Conference Mobile App Instructions 9

Hotel Floorplan 10

Sponsors 11

Annual Conference Keynote Speakers 12

Swap Meet 13

Workshops 13

One Health Symposium

Keynote Presenters 14

Panelists 16

Program Grid 19

16th Annual ISDS Conference

Program Grid 21

Detailed Schedule with Presentations and Events 23

Poster Session Directory 32

ISDS Groups and Committees 36

President’s Welcome & Program Notes

On behalf of the ISDS Board of Directors, welcome to the 2018 ISDS Annual Conference. We are excited for everyone to experience our new conference format this year. By spreading the conference over three days, you will have even more opportuni�es to foster new collabora�ons and absorb the best ideas in

Program Notes & Key Informa�on

Please read the program on the following pages. There are mul�ple concurrent sessions covering many topics. You will a�end oral presenta�ons of 15 minutes, lightning orals of 5 minutes, longer panels and roundtables, view 90 posters, plus enjoy two keynote lectures from Pulitzer Prize winning author, Laurie Garre� and CDC Director, Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald.

Full lunches and coffee breaks are offered daily. Plan to a�end the recep�on during the Poster Session on Wednesday a�ernoon.

For all events, your name badge is required, please wear it at all �mes.

Abstracts for all presenta�ons are available on ISDS’s Knowlege Repository at bit.ly/ISDS_abstracts or surveillancerepository.org. You may open abstracts on your laptop or personal devices during sessions and the files will be available following the conference should you wish to print a hard copy.

ADA Accommoda�on. Should you require accommoda�on or assistance, kindly seek out a member of the ISDS Staff at the Conference Registra�on Booth.

Your Are A Member in the Society. All registrants receive a one-year membership included with their registra�on. Please a�end the Member Mee�ng following lunch on Wednesday. Learn about our webinars, Communi�es of Prac�ce and get involved with a commi�ee.

disease surveillance. We also hope you are a�ending and will enjoy our first ISDS One Health Symposium prior to the Annual Conference.

ISDS staff and board members are available to answer ques�ons throughout the conference. We would also appreciate any feedback on your exper-ience at the conference in order to improve it in the future. In addi�on to wonderful keynotes and scien�fic sessions, we hope that you a�end ISDS commi�ee mee�ngs and the members mee�ng to become an even more ac�ve member of ISDS.

I would like to thank Alina Deshpande for being the Scien�fic Program Commi�ee Chair, Eric Bakota for being the Workshop Chair, Karen Meidenbauer for chairing the One Health Commi�ee, and all the members of the scien�fic program commi�ees.

Addi�onally, please take a moment during the conference to thank each of the ISDS staff for all their hard work in organizing this annual conference.

Enjoy the conference,

Wayne LoschenISDS Board President

Welcome to the16th AnnualISDS Conference!

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Welcome & Helpful Informa�on

I want to welcome you to the 16th annual conference and thank you for an ac�ve and engaging year. In 2017, this surveillance com-munity provided cri�cal data analysis and inform-a�on so public health could manage responses ranging from wildfires and hurricanes to the ever-present disease outbreaks in addi�on to the regular daily health surveillance. As we meet in Florida this year to

highlight these successes and learn from our peers, I hope that the sun and warmth of the city along with the momentum of the work we share here will energize us all to have a strong 2018.

I would like to thank the numerous conference commi�ee members who have volunteered hundreds of hours to collaborate with the ISDS staff to plan an informa�ve, robust and forward-thinking conference. Please thank them as you network and share your ideas for future collabora�ons. Sugges�ons from last year led us to offer the new One Health Symposium this year. This one day symposium, held the day before our annual conference, is geared for prac��oners in veterinary medicine, environmental and public health fields whose success relies upon exper�se in cross-disciplinary best prac�ces of One Health. We are always open for ideas for new opportuni�es. Maybe your idea will create a new addi�on next year!

Say hello if you see me at the mee�ng. I am happy to hear your sugges�ons for ISDS. We are here to help you strengthen the health surveillance community.

Shandy Dearth, MPH

Execu�veDirector’sWelcome

ISDS Board of Directors The Board of Directors is the all-volunteer governing body of the Society. Members are chosen by fellow members in annual elec�ons. Board members wear blue “Board Member” ribbons on their badges. Please feel free to introduce yourself and learn more about ISDS.

Wayne Loschen, MSPresident, Term: 2016-2019

Vivek Singh, MPH, MBBSVice-President, Term: 2017-2020

Sheri Lewis, MPHSecretary, Term: 2016-2018

P. Joseph Gibson, MPH, Ph.D.Treasurer, Term: 2016-2018

Erin Aus�n, MPHTerm: 2016-2018

Jennifer Bernstein, JD, MPHTerm: 2018-2020

David Blazes, MD, MPHTerm: 2016-2018

Alina Deshpande, PhDTerm: 2018-2020

Amy Ising, MSTerm: 2015-2018

Eric Lau, PhDTerm: 2018-2020

Non-vo�ng Members

Katherine Harmon, MPH, Student Board Member

Gayatri Raol, MPH, Student Board Member


ISDS Mission

Building a Global Surveillance Community of Prac�ce

The mission of ISDS is to improve popula�on health by advancing the science and prac�ce of disease surveillance. Our growing membership represents individual professionals from all aspects of the biosurveillance and broader public health surveillance community.

Our goal is to bring ideas to ac�ons that have measurable change on disease preven�on and response by increasing access to �mely, high-quality data for decision-making. By providing capacity-building assistance, ISDS provides support that maintains momentum. We believe that by cul�va�ng collabora�ons and joining surveillance professionals across disciplines, sectors, and na�ons, we can foster innova�ons and accomplish together what could not be achieved alone. The strengths of ISDS include:

1. A growing global network that joins surveillance prac��oners and researchers from 280+ organiza�ons in 40+ countries worldwide.

2. Unparalleled experience building and suppor�ng Communi�es of Prac�ce (CoPs) among surveillance professionals to keep project momentum going and provide an outlet for community input.

3. A trusted communica�on portal for knowledge exchange to keep abreast of the latest findings, best prac�ces, policy changes, and events related to disease surveillance.

4. Extensive subject ma�er exper�se in innova�ve approaches to disease surveillance, surveillance systems and processes, sta�s�cal analyses and tools, syndromic surveillance, One Health approaches, and public health informa�cs.

5. Strong competencies in project management, consulta�ons, consensus building, priority se�ng, standards development, and other technical services to move ideas to ac�on.

6. Capabili�es in rigorous evalua�on and assessment through electronic surveys and other qualita�ve and quan�ta�ve methods to collect, analyze, and report data and informa�on.

7. 16 years of experience coordina�ng the ISDS Annual Conference, the premier event for surveillance professionals to exchange their ideas and results, build knowledge and skills, and network to ini�ate new partnerships.

8. Exper�se in developing and delivering targeted public health workforce training ac�vi�es from workshops and webinars to distance learning.

9. The neutrality of a third party agency that is well posi�oned as a non-governmental, non-par�san en�ty to provide evidence-based and unbiased products and services.

10. A friendly professional staff renowned for reliability and produc�vity and the organiza�onal agility to quickly adapt to change and take advantage of new opportuni�es.

Awards are conferred in three areas annually at the ISDS conference. This year’s presenta�ons will be made at 8:00 AM on February 1st. Please plan to a�end.

The Rick Heffernan Award is awarded to an individual who has demonstrated “sustained and outstanding contribu�ons to the knowledge and prac�ce of biosurveillance.” The award was established to honor Rick Heffernan, an early leader in the field of biosurveillance, and founding member and constant supporter of ISDS, who passed away in February 2013.

This year's recipient is Amy Ising, MS.

The Awards for Outstanding Research Ar�cles in Biosurveillance, developed by the ISDS Research Commi�ee, recognizes surveillance scien�sts and professionals for their contribu�ons to their fields of research. Awardees are selected from a list of nominated ar�cles gathered by the Literature Review Subcommi�ee and reviewed by the Awards Subcommi�ee. A first and second prize award is given for the categories “Impact on field of biosurveillance” and “Scien�fic achievement.”

The 2018 winners for the Awards for Outstanding Research Ar�cles in Biosurveillance are:

Impact on field of biosurveillance:First prize – PopHR: a knowledge-based pla�orm to support integra�on, analysis, and visualiza�on of popula�on health data. Authors: Arash Shaban-Nejad, Maxime Lavigne, Anya Okhmatovskaia, Arash Shaban-Nejad, Maxime Lavigne, Anya Okhmatovskaia, & David L. Buckeridge

Second prize – Development of a Machine Learning Algorithm for the Surveillance of Au�sm Spectrum Disorder. Authors: Ma�hew J. Maenner, Marshalyn Yeargin-Allsopp, Kim Van Naarden Braun, Deborah L. Christensen, & Laura A. Schieve

Scien�fic achievement:First prize – Daily Reportable Disease Spa�otemporal Cluster Detec�on, New York City, New York, USA, 2014–2015. Authors: Sharon K. Greene, Eric R. Peterson, Deborah Kapell, Annie D. Fine, & Mar�n Kulldorff

Second Prize – Modeling Tool for Decision Support during

Early Days of an Anthrax Event. Authors: Gabriel Rainisch, Mar�n I. Meltzer, Sean Shadomy, William A. Bower, & Nathaniel Hupert

The Award for Outstanding Student or Post-Degree Abstract, also developed by the ISDS Research Commi�ee, recognizes exemplary work being done students or recent students in the field of biosurveillance. Two awardees are selected based on overall scores given by the Awards Subcommi�ee for their abstracts and personal statements. This year, an addi�onal ten students were awarded the second prize honor.

The 2018 winners for the Award for Outstanding Student or Post-Degree Abstract are:Katherine Harmon, Informing Public Health Preven�on in NC Using Falls Surveillance DataGayatri Raol, Heroin Overdose Hospitaliza�on Risk due to Prescrip�on Opioids using PDMP in WI

Honorable Men�ons –Sultanah Alshammari, University of North Texas Jeffrey L. Ashby, Indiana University Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public HealthTimothy D. McFarlane, Indiana University Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health Izuchukwu Frank Obi, University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital Hobiniaina Anthonio Rakotoarison, University of AntananarivoNatalie Tomaszewski, University of Southern CaliforniaPriscilla W. Wong, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health

Please join us on February 1 at 8:00 AM in Ballroon C as we recognize all award winners, featuring presenta�ons by Maxime Levine on behalf of her co-authors: “PopHR: a knowledge-based pla�orm to support integra�on, analysis, and visualiza�on of popula�on health data” and Sharon Greene on behalf of her co-authors presen�ng: “Daily Reportable Disease Spa�otemporal Cluster Detec�on, New York City, New York, USA, 2014–2015”.


Annual Awards

Na�onal Syndromic Surveillance Program Community of Prac�ce



Scien�fic Program Commi�ee and Workshop Chairs

A warm welcome to all registered par�cipants of this year’s conference! In keeping with the theme, “Global Health Today and Tomorrow: Policy Op�ons and Scien�fic Solu�ons”, the program agenda offers a diversity of topics and presenta�ons geared toward bridging policy and science solu�ons to

address emerging challenges in disease surveillance. This year’s keynote speakers (Dr. Fitzgerald and Ms. Garre�) bring new perspec�ves on the challenges of the future, together with a global outlook.

The three-day conference that combines panel discussions, roundtables presenta�ons and posters offers a significant opportunity for par�cipants to learn as well as interact with prac��oners and developers. Sessions range from topics on One Health and health security to methods and prac�ces in disease surveillance and we are excited that we have global representa�on in all areas.

I look forward to an engaging conference and am excited about mee�ng experts in disease surveillance from all over the world. I hope you will share my enthusiasm and take advantage of this unique conference that brings together real world prac��oners and scien�fic minds to facilitate and enhance global disease surveillance at various scales.

Alina Deshpande, PhDScien�fic Program Commi�ee ChairISDS Annual Conference

Thank you for coming to the 2018 ISDS Conference. I hope you enjoy the breadth and depth of the workshops that have been lined up for you. In previous years, workshops were set aside to be full day experiences in a pre-conference with its own addi�onal cost. This

year the conference planning commi�ee decided to take a new approach to workshops: they are now included as part of the core conference and offered every day. I encourage everyone to take advantage of this change and learn from the experts who are leading the different workshops.

We strived to make available workshops that would interest the diverse set of conference a�endees. We are offering workshops that have been ISDS staples for years, such as the Introduc�on to Biosurveillance and ESSENCE 101/102. We are also offering new and �mely workshops in Opioid Surveillance and Disaster Epidemiology. Some focus on technical skills, such as our R 101 and R 102, others on so�er skills such as Mee�ng Facilita�on and Grant Wri�ng. I hope you find something that piques your interest and teaches you a valuable skill to be added to your toolbox.

Please say hello if you see me! I’m very interested in hearing about your experience with the workshops and I’d appreciate any input on how to improve on them for 2019.

Eric Bakota, MSWorkshop Chair

Thank you, Program Commi�ee MembersEric Bakota, Brian Dixon, Wayne Clifford, Amy Ising,

Ramesh Krishnamurthy, Eric Lau, Bryan Lewis, Wayne Loschen, Ian Painter, Dave Swenson.

Co-ChairsNorman Dogge�, Jeanne Fair,

Geoffrey Fairchild, Nicholas Generous

Thank you, Workshop InstructorsStacey Hoferka, Kristy Murray, Yushiuan Chen, Brian Dixon, Wayne Loschen and Teresa Dussault.


Scien�fic Program Commi�ee for One Health Symposium & Conference App

Welcome to the 1st Annual ISDS One Health Symposium! On behalf of the Planning Commi�ee, it is my pleasure to welcome you to the inaugural One Health Symposium. The OHS will bring together a diverse group of experts from around the world in

human, animal and environmental health. Our speakers are renowned in their fields and come from various backgrounds including industry, government, and academia.

ISDS has a rich history of bringing disease surveill-ance experts together to develop innova�ve ideas to be�er solve some of our society's most complex health issues. We hope the OHS will foster the development of similar construc�ve rela�onships through our interdisciplinary understanding of One Health. We hope you will ac�vely take part in this collabora�ve thinking and leave the symposium energized with a new enthusiasm to take on One Health challenges in your communi�es.

I want to thank our talented symposium planning commi�ee for their dedica�on and support in developing this new program. Please enjoy your �me and share any feedback with our planning team to help us con�nue to improve the program.

Warm regards,

Karen L. Meidenbauer DVM, MPH

Thank you, One Health Planning Commi�eeThank you Commi�ee members: Judy Akkina, Victor Del Rio, Sheri Lewis, Wayne Loschen, Shandy Dearth.

Download the Conf-erence App &Scien�fic Programto Network andSee the Latest Conference News.

The ISDS Conference App is the perfect way to stay up to date with the program, any changes, receive no�fica�ons and, if you with, communicate and network with your fellow a�endees. Here’s how to take full advantage of the app.

There are two ways to use the online informa�on: visit a website or download

the app (recommended) so you may use all of the available features like push no�fica�ons and connec�ng with fellow a�endees.

Full-feature instruc�onsGo to your app store and search for “A�endify App” and download it to your device. Next, you need to locate the ISDS Conference using the Event Code op�on. Enter isds2018. Important: For most a�endees, informa�on has been pre-loaded to help you create your profile. Use the email address that you used to either submit an abstract or register for the conference to retrieve that data. That should link you to your profile. (This is an op�onal step. If it does not work or you wish to use another email address, please feel free to create a new profile.) You’re now ready to enjoy the app.

Visit Without Downloading the AppYou may wish to view the program online without receiving the full features. To do so, simply navigate to t6s7xm.m.a�endify.com and enter the Code: isds2018

Need Help?Visit the ISDS Staff at the Registra�on Desk for assistance and answers to your ques�ons.


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Sponsors and Exhibits

We are most grateful to the support we receive from our Sponsors, most of whom will have a table in the Exhibit Hall and look forward to mee�ng you, our registrants.

The Exhibits are open Wednesday, January 31st from 9:30 AM to 2:30 PM and Thursday, February 1 from 10:00 AM to 2:30 PM.

Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab is a sponsor of both the One Health Symposium and the Annual Conference

First Watch’s support is applied to the expenses of bringingguest keynote and workshop speakers to the Annual Conference.



Annual Conference Keynote Speakers

Author, speaker, and Foreign Policy columnist Laurie Garre� was Senior Fellow for Global Health at the Council on Foreign Rela�ons (CFR) in New York from 2004 to 2017. She is the only writer ever to have been awarded all three of the Big Ps of journalism: the Peabody, the Polk, and the Pulitzer. Her exper�se includes emerging diseases, epidemics, pandemics, drug resistance, bioterrorism, planetary

health, and climate change.

Garre� wrote her first bestselling book, The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance, while spli�ng her �me between the Harvard School of Public Health and the New York newspaper, Newsday. During the 1990s, she con�nued tracking outbreaks and epidemics worldwide, no�ng the insufficient responses from global public health ins�tu�ons in Zaire, India, Russia, and most of the former USSR, Eastern Europe, and the United States. This resulted in the publica�on in 2000 of the bestselling Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health. The following year, Garre� covered the a�acks on the World Trade Center and subsequent anthrax mailings, leading to her third book, I Heard the Sirens Scream: How Americans Responded to the 9/11 and Anthrax A�acks.Among her most recent awards for her global health work and publishing are the 2014 NYU School of Medicine “Outstanding Contribu�ons to Global Health,” and the 2015 Interna�onalism Award from the American Women for Interna�onal Understanding. In 2017, she was named one of 10 “Remarkable Women of UC,” by the Board of Regents of the University of California. Garre� has been awarded four honorary PhDs, honoris causa, from Wesleyan University (Illinois), University of Massachuse�s (Lowell), Georgetown University, and the Carl Icahn Mt. Sinai School of Medicine.

She has wri�en and provided reportage for news outlets including CNN, the BBC, Vanity Fair, the Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, the Australian Broadcas�ng Corpora�on, ABC Nightline, and hundreds more.

A na�ve of Los Angeles, Garre� graduated with honors in biology from the University of California, Santa Cruz. She a�ended graduate school in the Department of Bacteriology and Immunology at University of California, Berkeley, and did immunology research in the Herzenberg Lab of Stanford University.

ISDS is honored to announce newly-appointed CDC Director, Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald will be the keynote speaker at our 16th Annual Conference.

Dr. Fitzgerald, a board-cer�fied obstetrician-gynecologist, has prac�ced medicine for three decades. As Georgia DPH Commissioner, Dr. Fitzgerald oversaw various state public health programs and directed the

state’s 18 public health districts and 159 county health departments. Prior to that, Dr. Fitzgerald held numerous leadership posi�ons. She served on the board and as president of the Georgia OB-GYN Society and she worked as a health care policy advisor with House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Senator Paul Coverdell. She has served as a Senior Fellow and Chairman of the Board for the Georgia Public Policy Founda�on.

Dr. Fitzgerald holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Microbiology from Georgia State University and a Doctor of Medicine degree from Emory University School of Medicine. She completed post-graduate training at the Emory-Grady Hospitals in Atlanta and held an assistant clinical professorship at Emory Medical Center. As a Major in the U.S. Air Force, Dr. Fitzgerald served at the Wurtsmith Air Force Strategic Air Command (SAC) Base in Michigan and at the Andrews Air Force Base in Washington, D.C.

Opening AddressJanuary 31st, 8:00 AM

Laurie Garre�

Closing AddressFebruary 2, 8:00 AM

Brenda Fitzgerald, MD

Swap Meet Presenters and Workshops


The Swap Meet is held on February 1st from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM. It is an opportunity to meet with experts who offer to share knowledge in specific areas of public health surveillance.

Here’s the current list of par�cipants. Please make plans to visit and learn!

Ac�vity: ISDS Data Quality Commi�eeOrganiza�on: North Dakota Department of Health/ ISDS Data Quality Commi�eeLeader: Jill Baber

Ac�vity: SAGES: Suite for Automated Global Electronic bioSurveillanceOrganiza�on: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics LaboratoryLeader: Shraddha Patel

Ac�vity: NSSPOrganiza�on: Centers for Disease ControlLeader: Michael Cole�a

Ac�vity: R Group for BiosurveillanceOrganiza�on: Harris County Public HealthLeader: Eric Bakota

Ac�vity: ESSENCEOrganiza�on: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics LaboratoryLeader: Monica Punjabi

Ac�vity: Community of Prac�ce Steering Commi�eeOrganiza�on: New Jersey Department of HealthLeader: Teresa Hamby

Ac�vity: LANL Visual Analy�cs for BSVOrganiza�on: Los Alamos Na�onal LaboratoryLeader: Forest Altherr

Ac�vity: ISDS Research Commi�eeOrganiza�on: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics LaboratoryLeader: Howard Burkom

Workshops are offered daily on the 31st, 1st and 2nd. They are open to all registrants and are included in your registra�on fee. Topics include:

Mee�ng Facilita�on (led by PHII Facilitators)*R 101 an R102An Introduc�on to BiosurveillanceESSENCE 101 and 102Disaster SurveillanceOpioid SurveillanceGrant and Proposal Wri�ng

Please refer to the daily program to locate and a�end your selected sessions.

* The Mee�ng Facilita�on workshop has a limit on a�endance. Kindly check at the registra�on desk to inquire about a�ending this special event.

One Health Symposium

ISDS is pleased to expand our One Health tracks from the Annual Conference into a full-day symposium with leading experts presen�ng on One Health disciplines. This conference is geared for prac��oners in veterinary medicine, environmental and public health fields whose success relies upon exper�se in cross-disciplinary best prac�ces of One Health. The conference theme of addressing challenges to implementa�on of One Health will run through the day's presenta�ons.

One Health Symposium Introduc�on and Keynote Presenters

Keynote SpeakerLaura Kahn, MD, MPH, MPP, FACPPrinceton University

“One Health and the Poli�cs of An�-microbial Resistance”

Stephanie Salyer, DVM, MPHCDC One Health Office

“Centers for Disease Control and Preven�on Update”

Dr. Laura H. Kahn is a physician and research scholar with the Program on Science and Global Security at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and Interna�onal Affairs, Princeton University.

In April 2006, she published Confron�ng Zoonoses, Linking Human and Veterinary Medicine in the Center for Disease Control and Preven�on's (CDC) Journal of Emerging Infec�ous Diseases. That publica�on helped launch the One Health Ini�a�ve (h�p://www.onehealthini�a�ve.com) which seeks to improve the health of all species by increasing communica�on and collabora�on between human, animal, and environmental health specialists. She is the author of “Who's in Charge? Leadership during epidemics, bioterror a�acks, and other public health crises” published in 2009 by Praeger Security Interna�onal. She writes online columns for the Bulle�n of the Atomic Scien�sts, and has published in many peer- reviewed journals. Her second book, One

Health and the Poli�cs of An�microbial Resistance, was published in June 2016 by Johns Hopkins University Press. An April 2017 book review in CDC's journal Emerging Infec�ous Diseases described the book as “an essen�al primer for anyone who chooses to grapple with this challenging but crucial public health issue.”

Princeton University awarded her course, “Hogs, Bats, and Ebola: An Introduc�on to One Health policy,”

thwith a 250 Anniversary Fund for Innova�on in Undergraduate Educa�on.

A na�veof California, Dr. Kahn holds a B.S. degree in Nursing from UCLA, an M.D. from Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, a Master's degree in Public Health from Columbia University and a Master's degree in Public Policy from Princeton University. Dr. Kahn is a fellow of the American College of Physicians (ACP) and is a recipient of the New Jersey Chapter's Laureate Award. In 2014, she received a Presiden�al Award for Meritorious Service from the American Associa�on of Public Health Physicians, and in 2016, the American Veterinary Epidemiology Society (AVES) awarded her with their highest honor for her work in One Health: the K.F. Meyer-James H. Steele Gold Head Cane Award.

Stephanie Salyer joined the Centers for Disease Control and Preven�on, Division of Global Health Protec�on (DGHP) as a staff Veterinary Epidemiolo-gist in July 2014 a�er comple�ng her Epidemic Intelligence Service training in the same division. Stephanie currently serves as the CDC Global Liaison


One Health Symposium: Keynote Presenters


for One Health in CDC’s One Health Office and is a member of CDC’s Ins�tu�onal Animal Care and Use Commi�ee.

She obtained her Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine and Masters of Public Health degrees from the University of Wisconsin – Madison followed by a small animal rota�ng surgery and medicine internship at the Animal Medical Center in New York City. Her previous field work includes ILI and SARI surveillance as a Hubert Fellow in Kenya, inves�ga�ng zoono�c and anthropozoono�c cryptosporidium transmission in Kibale Na�onal Park, Uganda, and valida�ng a neuraminidase assay and sequencing avian influenza isolates in Cairo, Egypt.

She performed pre-clinical pharmacology and toxicology research in the biotech and pharmaceu�-cal fields for the 6 years prior to entering veterinary school. Stephanie’s work within DGHP and the One Health Office has allowed her to respond to out-breaks, strengthen and evaluate various surveillance systems/programs, conduct epidemiologic analysis, develop protocols, and support One Health capacity building efforts on topics such as water and sani-ta�on, hemorrhagic fevers, vector-borne disease, hepa��s, tuberculosis, rabies, non-communicable disease, food safety, and nodding syndrome. Her interna�onal work has been primarily focused within the 10 Global Disease Detec�on Regional Centers and Hai�. Her experience suggests, she is most passion-ate about the global public health and understanding disease dynamics at the human and animal interface.

Julianna Lenoch, DVM, MPH, DACVPMCenter for Epidemiology and Animal Health, USDA:APHIS

“USDS APHIS One Health Update”

Dr. Julianna Lenoch is the Lead for Risk Iden�fica�on at the USDA Center for Epidemiology and Animal Health. She received her Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine from Colorado State University, Master of Public Health Epidemiology from the Colorado School of Public Health, and completed a post-doc fellowship with the Center for Disease Control and Preven�on in Heath Systems Integra�on.

Dr. Lenoch is a boarded diplomat of the American College of Veterinary Preven�ve Medicine. She has been at the USDA since 2016, and previously served as the Deputy Director of the USGS- Na�onal Wildlife Health Center in Madison, WI.

Dr. Lenoch works at the forefront of disease risk, and works to understand the complexi�es of transmission and spillover between wildlife, livestock, humans, and the environmental drivers of disease. She is also currently serving as the USDA- Veterinary Services liaison to the Climate Change Adapta�on working group.


One Health Symposium: Keynote Speakers & Panelists

Panel Par�cipantsDr. Baba Soumare, a Senegalese, was graduated as Veterinary Doctor from the Inter States School for Veterinary Sciences and Medicines in Dakar, Senegal in 1992; specialized in medical parasitology and mycology, and in Vet Epidemiology at University Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal and the Ins�tute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp, Belgium respec�vely. Baba obtained his PhD in Animal Health Economics at Gent University, Belgium, and several cer�ficates including in communica�on, management and humanitarian and emergency opera�ons support.

Over the past two decades, Baba has been providing technical and managerial leadership in various fields of animal health, veterinary public health, ins�tu�onal capacity building and emergency support in humanitarian & development contexts in Africa.

He held several leadership posi�ons including as Chief Animal Health at African Union-Inter African Bureau for Animal Resources providing technical and policy support to 54 countries, and with USAID where he coordinated the large-scale Avian and Pandemic Influenza program for 21 countries in West and Central Africa. Dr Soumare's field pos�ng included Somalia and Rwanda where he worked extensively to help establish the epidemiology and risk status of trade-restric�ng diseases, and to minimize the spread of cholera outbreaks in refugee camps.

Baba also worked as Africa Regional Director for USAID-funded Emerging Pandemic

Baba Soumare, DVM, PhD, MSEpiFood and Agriculture Organiza�on of the United Na�ons

“Interna�onal Perspec�ve: One Health Worldwide Update”

Amanda Beaudoin, DVM, PhDDirector of One Health An�bio�c Stewardship, Minnesota Department of Health

An�microbial Resistance Panel

Threats/Preparedness and Response project, overseeing the establishment and ins�tu�onaliza�on of func�onal Na�onal One Health Pla�orms and development of opera�onal plans for effec�ve predic�on, preven�on and containment of emerging infec�ous diseases.

Dr. Soumare is currently in charge of the FAO Emergency Center for Transboundary Animal Diseases for West & Central Africa.

Dr. Amanda Beaudoin is the Director of One Health An�bio�c Stewardship at the Minnesota Department of Health. She is instrumental in leading a statewide interagency approach to increasing awareness of responsible an�bio�c use. Prior to her current role, she served as a Veterinary Medical Officer at the CDC.

Dr. Beaudoin earn her DVM at Cornell University and a PhD in Veterinary Preven�ve Medicine, Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Minnesota.


Jane Parmley is a veterinarian and epidemiologist with the Public Health Agency of Canada and the Canadian Wildlife Health Coopera�ve (CWHC). Jane is the co-lead of analysis for the Canadian Integrated Program for An�microbial Resistance Surveillance (CIPARS).

She is ac�vely involved in several different research projects that aim to iden�fy and integrate different and diverse types of data related to an�microbial resistance and to develop new approaches to improve our understanding of resistance as a complex health problem.

Jane has worked on a wide variety of surveillance programs, risk assessments, and wildlife conserva�on and management projects and her main interest con�nues to be the interconnectedness between human, animal and environmental health.

Dr. Holloway was raised on a diversified family farm in Darlington, MD. He a�ended Virginia Tech from 1990 to 1998 where he acquired a BS and DVM. Dr. He has

Jane Parmley, DVMPublic Health Agency of Canada and Canadian Wildlife Health Coopera�ve


Andrew Holloway, DVMElanco Ca�le Technical Consultant Lead


held several technical posi�ons in the animal health industry, and is currently employed as a Ca�le Tech-nical Consultant Leader for Elanco Animal Health, serving people and ca�le businesses in the US.

His professional interests include: calf and heifer health nutri�on and management, cow comfort and reproduc�ve management, sustainable produc�on agriculture, and finding new innova�ve solu�ons to on farm problems.

He is a current member of the US commi�ee for the Interna�onal Dairy Federa�on An�microbial Resistance Task Force.

Sheri Lewis leads the John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory’s (JHU/APL) Health Surveillance Program which includes the ESSENCE and SAGES projects. She works with both the US and interna�on-al public health communi�es on the development and implementa�on of electronic disease surveill-ance systems, mobile health applica�ons, and the development of advanced analy�cs for the predic�on and modeling of emerging infec�ous diseases.

Ms. Lewis is a member of the JHU/APL Principal Professional Staff and is the Research and Applica�ons Program Area Manager for the organiza�on’s Na�onal Health Mission Area. In this role Ms. Lewis oversees technical aspects of a range of programs spanning a variety of health topics including health surveillance, systems biology, neurological health and human performance, and biomechanics.

Sheri Lewis, MPHJohns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

Overcoming Barriers Panel

One Health Symposium: Panelists

Dr. Molly Jahn is a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she holds appointments in the Department of Agronomy, the Nelson Ins�tute, and the Global Health Ins�tute. She is also appointed Joint Faculty at the US Department of Energy Oak Ridge Na�onal Laboratory (ORNL) where she chairs the Scien�fic Advisory Commi�ee of the Energy and Environmental Sciences Directorate and sits on the Lab Director’s SAC. From 2006-11 she served as Dean of the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences and Director of the Wisconsin Experiment Sta�on. In 2009, she was called to Washington to serve as Deputy and Ac�ng Under Secretary of Agriculture, overseeing four USDA research and sta�s�cal agencies.

Dr. Jahn has led research programs at the University of Wisconsin and previously at Cornell University which produced vegetable varie�es now grown commercially and for subsistence on six con�nents. She has >100 peer-reviewed publica�ons and >60 ac�ve commercial licenses. She has numerous awards, fellowships and lectureships for her research, teaching and outreach. In 2014, she was named the first Lilian Mar�n Fellow at the University of Oxford’s Mar�n School. Her innova�ve approaches to inter-sector partnership, engagement with emerging ins�tu�ons and integrated large projects focused on impact and technology transfer have been highlighted in a number of studies and books. She has served on numerous boards and scien�fic advisory panels around the world including the US Na�onal Academies of Science Board on Agriculture

and Natural Resources, NASA’s Applied Sciences Advisory Commi�ee, the Santa Fe Ins�tute Science Board, the CGIAR Consor�um Board. She consults globally for business and finance, governments, philanthropic organiza�ons, and interna�onal mul�-lateral ins�tu�ons focused on agriculture, food, life sciences and environment.

She currently co-directs a major USDA grant on dairy sustainability, leads a five year project with US Government on food security, food systems and na�onal security interests, and heads a global research alliance supported by the Skoll Global Threats Fund aimed at catalyzing decision-relevant science and engineering to be�er characterize and manage systemic risk at the land/water/energy/human security nexus. She collaborates with the insurance/re-insurance and the humanitarian sectors on unmodelled peril and systems risk in food systems.

Dr. Jahn received the BA with Dis�nc�on in Biology from Swarthmore College, holds graduate degrees from MIT and Cornell University, and was assistant, associate and full professor of Plant Breeding and Plant Biology at Cornell University from 1991-2008. She holds Honorary Doctor of Science degrees from Swarthmore College and Anglia Ruskin University in the UK and is a Fellow of the AAAS and the Wisconsin Academy of Arts, Sciences and Le�ers.

Molly Jahn, PhdUniversity of Wisconsin

Food Security Panel


One Health Symposium: Panelists

One Health Symposium Morning Program Grid


Title Speakers

7:00 AM to

8:00 AM

8:00 AM to

8:15 AM

Welcome

Remarks

Karen Meiderbauer, DVM, MPH

DVM Program Committee Chair

Johns Hopkins University

8:15 AM to

9:00 AM

Keynote Address: One Health and

the Politics of Antimicrobial

Resistance

Laura H. Kahn,

MD, MPH, MPP, FACP

Princeton University

9:00 AM to

9:45 AM

Centers for Disease Control

and Prevention Update

Stephanie Salyer, DVM, MPH

CDC One Health Office

9:45 AM to

10:15 AM

10:15 AM to

11:00 AM

USDA APHIS

One Health Update

Julianna Lenoch, DVM, MPH

USDA APHIS

11:00 AM to

11:45 AM

International Perspective

One Health Worldwide Update

Baba Soumare,

DVM, PhD, MSEpi

United Nations FAO

11:45 AM to

12:45 AM

One Health Symposium, Tuesday January 30th, Salon 4

Registration and Coffee

Morning Coffee Break

Lunch

12:45 PM to

2:00 PMAntimicrobial Resistance Panel

Laura Kahn, MD, MPH, MPP, FACP

Princeton University

Amanda Beaudoin, DVM, PhD,

DACVPM, MN Dept. of Health

Jane Parmley, DVM, PhD

University of Guelph

Andrew Holloway, DVM, PAS

Elanco, AMR Expert

2:00 PM to

3:15 PMOvercoming Barriers Panel

Stephanie Salyer, DVM, MPH

CDC

Sheri Lewis, MPH

Johns Hopkins University Applied

Physics Laboratory

3:15 PM to

3:45 PM

3:45 PM to

5:00 PMFood Security Panel

Molly Jahn, PhD, MS

University of Wisconsin

Baba Soumare,DVM, PhD, MSEpi

United Nations FAO

Julianna Lenoch, DVM, MPH

USDA APHIS

5:00 PM to

5:15 PMClosing Remarks

Karen Meiderbauer,

DVM Program Committee Chair

Johns Hopkins University

Afternoon Coffee Break

Afternoon Panels: Presentations followed by Discussion/Q&A


One Health Symposium Morning Program Grid

Program Grid, January 31 & February 1

Room Salon 2 Salon 3 Salon 4 Salon 9 Salon 10 Ballroom C Ballroom D7:00 AM to 7:30 AM

7:30 AM to 8:00 AM

8:00 AM to 8:30 AM

8:30 AM to 9:00 AM

9:00 AM to 9:30 AM

9:30 AM to 10:00 AM Morning Break

10:00 AM to 10:30 AM

10:30 AM to 11:00 AM

11:00 AM to 11:30 AM

11:30 AM to 12:00 PM

12:00 PM to 12:30 PM

12:30 PM to 1:00 PM Member Meeting

1:00 PM to 1:30 PM

1:30 PM to 2:00 PM

2:00 PM to 2:30 PM

2:30 PM to 3:00 PM

3:00 PM to 3:30 PM

3:30 PM to 4:00 PM

4:00 PM to 4:30 PM

4:30 PM to 5:00 PM

5:00 PM to 5:30 PM

5:30 PM to 6:00 PM

6:00 PM to 6:30 PM

6:30 PM to 7:00 PM

Wednesday, January 31

Keynote

Ms. Laurie

Garrett

Poster

Session

&

Reception

Research

Committee

Salon 7/8

One Health

Poster

Installation

Exhibit Hall

Orals,

Informatics

Lightning, Public

Health Pop.

Health

Coffee

Workshop

PHII

Meeting

Facilitation

Lightning,

Analytics,

Methodologies

Coffee Break

Orals, Public

Health Pop.

Health

R 101Intro to

Biosurveillance

Panel

Disaster

Surveillance

Orals, Public

Health Pop.

Health

Orals,

Analytics,

Methodologies

Orals, Public

Health Pop.

Health

Orals, Public

Health Pop.

Health

Lunch

Room Salon 2 Salon 3 Salon 4 Salon 9 Salon 10 Ballroom C Ballroom D7:00 AM to 7:30 AM

7:30 AM to 8:00 AM

8:00 AM to 8:30 AM Heffernan Award8:30 AM to 9:00 AM Best Paper9:00 AM to 9:30 AM Student/Poster9:30 AM to 10:00 AM Coffee

10:00 AM to 10:30 AM

10:30 AM to 11:00 AM

11:00 AM to 11:30 AM

11:30 AM to 12:00 PM Committee Meeting Committee Meeting Committee Meeting Committee Meeting Committee Meeting

12:00 PM to 12:30 PM

12:30 PM to 1:00 PM

1:00 PM to 1:30 PM

1:30 PM to 2:00 PM

2:00 PM to 2:30 PM

2:30 PM to 3:00 PM

3:00 PM to 3:30 PM

3:30 PM to 4:00 PM

4:00 PM to 4:30 PM

4:30 PM to 5:00 PM

5:00 PM to 5:30 PM

5:30 PM to 6:00 PM

6:00 PM to 6:30 PM

6:30 PM to 7:00 PM

Swap Meet

Thursday, February 1

CoffeePosters Open

For Informal

Viewing

Roundtable

Messy Data

Lunch

Roundtable

HHS EPI Groups

Coffee

International

Networking &

Discussion

Lightning

PH/Pop. Health

Orals

Informatics, PH,

Policy

Roundtable

Drug Overdose

ESSENCE 101Disaster

Surveillance

Opioid

Surveillance

Orals Public

Health, Pop

Health

Salon 7 & 8

Shared Tools &

Services to Advance

Syndromic Sur-

veil lance in the US

Exhibits Open

Orals

Informatics

Analytic

Solutions

Committee



Program Grid, February 2

Room Salon 2 Salon 3 Salon 4 Salon 7 Salon 8 Salon 9 Salon 10 Ballroom B Ballroom A7:00 AM to 7:30 AM

7:30 AM to 8:00 AM

8:00 AM to 8:30 AM

8:30 AM to 9:00 AM

9:00 AM to 9:30 AM

9:30 AM to 10:00 AM Coffee10:00 AM to 10:30 AM

10:30 AM to 11:00 AM

11:00 AM to 11:30 AM

11:30 AM to 12:00 PM

12:00 PM to 12:30 PM

12:30 PM to 1:00 PM

1:00 PM to 1:30 PM

1:30 PM to 2:00 PM

2:00 PM to 2:30 PM

2:30 PM to 3:00 PM

Friday, February 2

Coffee

ISDS

Board

Room

R 102 ESSENCE 102

Grant &

Proposal

Writing

Lunch

Orals, Public

Health Pop

Health

Orals, Public

Health Pop

Health, Policy

Panel

Evaluation

Activities NSSP

Keynote

Dr. Brenda

Fitzgerald

Orals,

Analytics,

Informatics

Panel

SyS Successes

From the Field

Roundtable

Poison Center

Data

Roundtable

Urgent

Care Data

Lightning,

Multiple

Disciplines

Opioid Misuse in Missouri: Analyzing Emergency Department Use in Urban/Rural

AreasEvan Mobley 10:00 AM

Evaluation of Syndrome Algorithms for Detecting Pneumonia Emergency Department

VisitsPriscil la Wong 10:05 AM

ED visits for AMI, Stroke, ACS & COPD after the Statewide Smoking Ban in Cook Co., IL Megan Patel 10:10 AM

Understanding Emergency Department Util ization Patterns in Il l inois Serena Rezny 10:15 AM

Spatial temporal cluster analysis to enhance awareness of disease re-emergence on

a global scaleForest Altherr 10:20 AM

Data Quality Improvements in National Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP) Data Girum Ejigu 10:25 AM

Assessment of a Surveillance Case Definition for Heroin Overdose in Emergency

Medical Services Data

Michael

Singleton10:30 AM

Improving the Quality of Data Exchange Formats in the U.S. National Tuberculosis

Surveillance SystemWilfred Bonney 10:35 AM

Application of tablet for data collection in HIV sentinel surveillance in Vietnam Duong Thanh 10:40 AM

Comparing and Contrasting Two ESSENCE Syndrome Definition Query Methods Zachary Stein 10:45 AM

Investigating Other Syndrome in ESSENCE from a Data Quality PerspectiveDayaamayi

Kurimella10:50 AM

Assessment of the use of ED Chief Complaint Data for monitoring Chronic Diseases Megan Patel 10:55 AM

Opioid Surveillance using Social Media: How URLs are shared among Reddit members Albert Park 11:00 AM

Machine Learning for Identifying Relevance to Biosurveillance in Multil ingual Text Qiaochu Chen 11:05 AM

Wearable Sensor Application for Integrated Early Warning and Health Surveillance Lauren Charles 11:10 AM

Wednesday, January 31, 10:00 AM

Lightning Talks, Analytics/Methodologies & Informatics, Ballroom C

Using Electronic Health Records for Public Health Hypertension SurveillanceTimothy

McFarlane10:00 AM

What value can Google search data add to existing syndromic surveillance systems? Helen Green 10:15 AM

Nonparametric Models for Identifying Gaps in Message Feeds Andrew Walsh 10:30 AM

Exploring the Value of Learned Representations for Automated Syndromic Definitions Scott Lee 10:45 AM

Using Scan Statistic to Detect Heroin Overdose Clusters with Hospital Emergency

Room Visit DataJianhua Chen 11:00 AM

Quantifying Model Form Uncertainty of Epidemic Forecasting Models from Incidence

Data

Nicolas

Hengartner11:15 AM


Orals, Analytics/Methodologies, Salon 4

8:00 AM Ballroom CWelcome & Keynote featuring Ms. Laurie Garre�

9:30 AM Salons 7/8 Exhibits Open and coffee is served. Stop by to meet our supporters.

Wednesday, January 31 Schedule (1 of 4 pages for Wednesday)


1:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Salon 3Workshop: PHII’s Mee�ng Facilita�on (�cket required, see Registra�on Desk)

12:30 PM - 1:00 PM, Ballroom CAnnual Member Mee�ng (All are welcome. All registrants are members.)

Selection of Syndromes and Algorithms for Monitoring Bovine Laboratory Test Data Howard Burkom 10:00 AM

Developing and Deploying Universal Diagnostic Platforms for One-Health

Biosurveillance

Harshini

Mukundan10:15 AM

Executing a One Health approach during a zoonotic outbreak response Peter Woodward 10:30 AM

Prevalence of CCHF Virus in Ticks and People and Public Awareness in Zhambyl

Region, KazakhstanJennifer Head 10:50 AM

Epidemiology of Suspected Pesticide Poisoning in Livestock Judy Akkina 11:00 AM

Recognizing Recreational Water Exposure and Habituating HAB Surveillance in

ESSENCEKathryn Kuspis 11:05 AM


Lightning Talks & Orals, Public Health/One Health, Salon 3

Hospitalization of Mental Disorders in Saint Louis County: "Where You Live Matters" Echo Wang 10:00 AM

Leveraging City Data to Understand the Opioid Epidemic in Philadelphia Lia Pizzicato 10:15 AM

Cause-Specific School Absenteeism Monitoring Identifies Community Influenza

OutbreaksShari Barlow 10:30 AM

Tracking drug-related overdoses at the local level: Using Syndromic Surveillance in

the CO-NCREmery Shekiro 10:45 AM

Effect of the Work Week on Demographics of Heat-Related Il lness Patients in

Syndromic SurveillanceEm Stephens 11:00 AM


Orals, Public Health/Population Health, Salon 9

A Scoping Review of Enterovirus D-68 Ashley Weeks 10:00 AM

Correlation of Tweets Mentioning Influenza Il lness and Traditional Surveillance Data Zachary Heth 10:15 AM

Enhancing Epidemic Detection Using Syndromic Surveillance and Early Notification

Methods

Tippa

Wongstitwilairoo

ng

10:30 AM

Evaluating Twitter for Foodborne Il lness Outbreak Detection in New York CityKatelynn

Devinney10:45 AM

Increase of Scarlet fever in March 2017 in France: right or wrong signal? Isabelle Pontais 11:00 AM



11:30 AM - 12:30 PM, Ballroom DLunch



A proposed SyS Case Definition for Opioid Overdose Related ED visits- an evaluation

in three regionsYushiuan Chen 1:00 PM

Enhanced surveillance to monitor response to a provincial overdose emergency,

CanadaTIANXIN CHU 1:15 PM

Surveillance of a Synthetic Cannabinoid Overdose Outbreak using Syndromic & EMS

DataPeter Rock 1:30 PM

Tracking suspected heroin overdoses in CDC's National Syndromic Surveillance

Program

Alana Vivolo-

Kantor1:45 PM

Developing a Prototype Opioid Surveillance System at a 2-Day Virginia Hackathon Catherine Ordun 2:00 PM

Heroin Overdose Hospitalization Risk due to Prescription Opioids using PDMP in WI. Gayatri Raol 2:15 PM

Wednesday, January 31, 1:00 PM


Maricopa County's use of NSSP ESSENCE to detect cases during a hepatitis A outbreak Rasneet Kumar 1:00 PM

Using ESSENCE to Detect Bomb-Making Activity: What's Appropriate?Andrew

Torgerson1:05 PM

ED and poison center surveil lance for the Great American Solar Eclipse in Oregon Laurel Boyd 1:10 PM

STUDY OF THE MORTALITY OF VACCINE-PREVENTABLE INFECTIONS IN UKRAINE (1965 -

2015)

Hennadii

Mokhort1:20 PM

Data Sharing Among Three States in the BioSense Platform during the 2017 US Solar

EclipseStacey Hoferka 1:25 PM

The RHINO Community of Practice: Building a Space for Data Users and Enthusiasts in

Washington StateAmanda Morse 1:30 PM

Tablet-based participatory syndromic surveillance at Simhashta festival in India Vishal Diwan 1:35 PM

Syndromic Surveillance for Situation Awareness: Understanding Syndrome

PerformanceKristin Arkin 1:40 PM

Return of test results in Vietnam HIV sentinel surveil lance: Implementation and

preliminary resultsGiang Le 1:45 PM

Assessing scarlet fever re-emergence from notifiable disease surveil lance in Hong

KongEric Lau 1:50 PM

Using Syndromic Data for Opioid Overdose Surveillance in Utah Wei Hou 1:55 PM


Lightning Talks, Public Health/Population Health, Ballroom C

Enhancing Surveillance on the BioSense Platform through Improved Onboarding

ProcessesTravis Mayo 1:00 PM

HL7 Terminology Management for Disease Surveillance Emily Roberts 1:15 PM

Advanced Visualization and Analysis of Data Quality for Syndromic Surveillance

SystemsBrian Dixon 1:30 PM

Integrating data from disparate data systems for improved HIV reporting: Lessons

learnedKamran Ahmed 1:45 PM

Impact of the NSSP's transition to ESSENCE on chief complaint field-based syndromes Rasneet Kumar 2:00 PM


Orals, Informatics, Salon 10



Disaster Surveillance: Perspectives from Federal State and Local levels Eric Bakota 1:00 PM


Panel, Public Health/Population Health, Salon 9

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Workshop, Salon 4R 101

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Workshop, Salon 10Intro to Biosurveillance

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Ballroom DPoster Installa�on Begins – for Presenters only – set up for Poster Session

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, Poster Session & Recep�on, Ballroom DCheck your email for a link to cast your vote for the winners of Best Poster



7:00 AM - 10:00 AM Ballroom DPosters Remain In Place for Informal Viewing (Authors, please remove posters star�ng at 9:30 AM

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM Ballroom DAwards Ceremony - Heffernan Award, Best Research, Student Awards, Winning Oral Presenta�ons.

10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Ballroom DSpecial CDC Presenta�on: Shared Tools and Services to Advance Syndromic Surveillance in the US.

10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Salon 9Interna�onal A�endees Only - Special Networking and Discussions

9:30 AM Salons 7/8 Exhibits Open and coffee is served. Stop by to meet our supporters.

Thursday, February 1 Schedule (1 of 3 pages for Thursday)

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Ballroom DLunch

Epi Info Cloud Data Analytics to improve quality of HIV Surveillance in Vietnam. Diep Vu 1:00 PM

Streamlining Foodborne Disease Surveillance with Open-Source Data Management

SoftwareMichael Judd 1:15 PM

Public Health Decisions Using Point of Care Data from Open Source Systems in Africa Burke Mamlin 1:30 PM

Data Model for Initiatives to Monitor Exposure to Antimicrobials (DataMIME) Megan Patel 1:45 PM

Using an Open GIS Framework and Epidemiological Intelligence for Dengue

SurveillanceTa-Chien Chan 2:00 PM

Opioid Overdose Ambulance Runs: How Wisconsin Uses Free Text Data Jennifer Broad 2:15 PM

Thursday, February 1, 1:00 PM

Orals, Informatics, Salon 3

HL7 balloting process for the Implementation Guide for Syndromic Surveillance Peter Hicks 1:00 PM

The Longitudinal Record: Linking Hepatitis A Outbreak Cases and Syndromic HL7 Data Jeffrey Johnson 1:15 PM

Social Network Analysis across Healthcare Entities, Orange County, FL, 2016 Danielle Rankin 1:30 PM

Are the French SAMU data relevant for health surveillance? Isabelle Pontais 1:45 PM

Enhanced Surveillance of Heat-Related Il lness in Pinal County Dylan Kent 2:00 PM

Arizona Sonora Binational Cases: five years of surveillance Mariana Casal 2:15 PM


Orals, Informatics, PH, Policy, Salon 4


Using Drug Overdose Syndromic Surveillance Data to Impact Local Public Health

ActionMandy Billman 1:00 PM


Round Table, Public Health, Population Health, Salon 9


Informing Public Health Prevention in NC Using Falls Surveillance DataKatherine

Harmon1:00 PM

Identifying Sociomarkers of Pediatric Asthma Patients at Risk of Hospital Revisiting Eun Kyong Shin 1:15 PM

Hepatitis A surveillance using commercial laboratory data Lauren Canary 1:30 PM

Temporal Patterns in Chlamydia Repeat Testing and Positivity Rates in

MassachusettsElizabeth Dee 1:45 PM

Surveillance of Stil lbirth and Syphilis Screening Using Electronic Health Records Brian Dixon 2:00 PM


Orals, Public Health, Population Health, Salon 10

Syndromic Surveillance on the Mental Health Impact of Political Rallies in

Charlottesvil le, VirginiaEm Stephens 1:00 PM

Utilization of Syndromic Surveillance to Identify Naled-Related Il lness in Florida Prakash Mulay 1:05 PM

Evaluation of approaches that adjust for biases in participatory surveillance

systems

Kristin

Baltrusaitis1:10 PM

Beginner R methods for syndromic surveillance data validation Elyse Kadokura 1:15 PM

Creation of a Technical Tool to Improve Syndromic Surveillance Onboarding in

TennesseeJeffrey Leegon 1:20 PM

User Generated SQL Queries Inform Evaluation of NSSP ESSENCEAaron Kite-

Powell1:25 PM

Near Real-time Surveillance of Disease during 2016-17 Influenza Season in the U.S. Sushruth Reddy 1:30 PM

Response to Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak in Nigeria, West Africa: The Zaria

experienceAisha Abubakar 1:35 PM

Assessing Definitions of Heroin Overdose in ED & EMS Data Using Hospital Bil l ing

DataPeter Rock 1:40 PM


Lightning, Public Health/Population Health, Ballroom C



3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Workshop, Salon 3ESSENCE 101

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Workshop, Salon 4Disaster Surveillance

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Workshop, Salon 9Opioid Surveillance

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, Swap Meet, Salons 7/8

How do we present messy syndromic surveillance data to public health's partners? David Atrubin 3:00 PM


Round Table, Policy, Ballroom C

Why You Should Participate in HHS (Health and Human Services) Regional Epi Groups Michael Coletta 3:00 PM


Round Table, Salon 10


8:00 AM Ballroom BClosing Keynote featuring Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald

Friday, February 2 Schedule (1 of 2 pages for Friday)

Free-text Mining to Improve Syndrome Definition Matching Across Emergency

DepartmentsKrintin Arkin 10:00 AM

Analytics for Investigation of Disease Outbreaks (AIDO)Maneesha

Chitanvis10:15 AM

Niche Modeling of Dengue Fever Using Remotely Sensed Environmental Factors and

BRTJeffrey Ashby 10:30 AM

A Suite of Mechanistic Epidemiological Decision Support Tools Paul Fenimore 10:45 AM

Re-emerging Infectious Disease (RED) Alert toolManeesha

Chitanvis11:00 AM

Epi Archive: Automated Synthesis of Global Notifiable Disease Data Hari Khalsa 11:15 AM

Friday, February 2, 10:00 AM

Oral, Analytics, Informatics, Salon 7

Surveillance for Mass Gatherings: NCAA Final Four 2017 in Maricopa County, Arizona William Smith 10:00 AM

Field Team Syndromic Surveillance for Mass Gatherings: NCAA Final Four 2017 William Smith 10:15 AM

Public Health Surveillance in a Large Evacuation Shelter Post Hurricane Harvey Leann Liu 10:30 AM

Syndromic surveillance in religious festival involving circumambulation in India Vishal Diwan 10:45 AM

The Myths and Truths About Comparing Syndromic Data Across Sites Michael Coletta 11:00 AM


Oral, Public Health/Population Health, Salon 3

In-Country Acute Flaccid Paralysis Surveillance Review, Nasarawa State, Nigeria,

2017

Maureen

Anyanwu10:00 AM

Implementation of Real-Time Laboratory-Based Influenza Surveillance System,

ThailandPhunlerd Piyaraj 10:15 AM

Implementation of Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR) in SwazilandSiphiwe Shongwe-

Gama10:30 AM

Active case-finding and enhanced data collection to identify neglected tropical

diseasesVusie Lokotfwako 10:45 AM

Viral load testing to monitor the HIV epidemic among PWID in Vietnam Nghia Khuu 11:00 AM

Refocusing the Vietnam HIV surveillance to the most burden areas for epidemic

controlDiep Vu 11:15 AM


Oral, Public Health/Population Health, Policy, Salon 4

Syndromic Surveillance - Reports of Successes from the Field Cassandra Davis 10:00 AM


Panel, Public Health/Population Health, Salon 8

Poison center data for public health surveillance: Poison center and public health

perspectivesEmily Glidden 10:00 AM


Roundtable, Policy, Salon 9


Friday, February 2 Schedule (2 of 2 pages for Friday)

Justification for Collecting Urgent Care Data to Broaden Syndromic Surveillance David Swenson 1:00 PM


Roundtable, Informatics, Salon 10

Development Semantically Interoperable PH Emergency Preparedness Data Exchange Nikolay Lipskiy 10:00 AM

Improving Syndromic Data Quality through Implementation of Error Capture Module Robert Laing 10:05 AM

Developing and Validating a Fireworks-Related Syndrome Definition in Kansas Zachary Stein 10:10 AM

Mandating Syndromic Surveillance Reporting from Emergency Departments: The

Washington ExperienceAmanda Morse 10:15 AM

Comparison of National and Local Syndromic Surveillance Data - Cook County, IL,

2017Zachary Heth 10:20 AM

Improving Timeliness of Georgia Emergency Room Data Lance Ballester 10:25 AM

Public Health Impact of Syndromic Surveillance Data - A Literature Survey Stefanie Albert 10:30 AM

Transforming Public Health Surveillance Through Open Public Health Information Scott McNabb 10:35 AM

Monitoring Out-of-State Patients during a 2017 Hurricane Response using ESSENCE Caleb Wiedeman 10:40 AM

Use of Diagnosis Code in Mental Health Syndrome Definition Achintya Dey 10:45 AM

Assessing Prior Pain Visits and Medical History Risk Factors for Opioid Overdose Andrew Walsh 10:55 AM

Responder Safety, Tracking, and Resil ience - Georgia, 2016 - 2017 Jessica Grippo 11:00 AM

Using Discharge Diagnoses for Early Notification of Reportable Diseases in Georgia Rene Borroto 11:10 AM


Lightning, Multiple Disciplines, Ballroom B

Evaluation Activities from the National Syndromic Surveillance Program Hussain Yusuf 1:00 PM

Friday, February 2, 1:00 PM

Panel, Public Health/Population Health Policy, Salon 9

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM, Workshop, Salon 3R 102

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM, Workshop, Salon 4ESSENCE 102

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM, Workshop, Salon 7Grant and Proposal Wri�ng


Poster Session & Directory


100 Automated Processing of Electronic Data for Disease Surveillance Emily Roberts

101 Updating syndromic surveillnce baselines following public health interventions Roger Morbey

102 Comparison of statistical algorithms for syndromic surveillance aberration detection Roger Morbey

103Data-Driven Computational Model to Assess the Risk of Epidemics in Global Mass

GatheringsSultanah Alshammari

104 Epi Evident: Biosurveillance to Monitor, Compare, and Forecast Disease Case Counts Natalie Tomaszewski

105 Forecasting Emergency Department Admissions for Pneumonia in Tropical Singapore Cindy Lim

106Impact assessment of mass gatherings using labelling procedure in ED, Nouvelle-

Aquitaine, 2016Laure MEURICE

107Malaria risk assessment through Remote Sensing and MultiCriteria Evaluation in

Madagascar

Anthonio

Rakotoarison

108Modeling the risk of heat illness among basic training populations within the DoD,

2010 - 2017Jessica Deerin

109How can we assess the effects of urban environment on obesity using aggregated

data?Seon-Ju Yi

110 A provincial Acute Febrile Illness Surveillance Network (GAFINet), South Korea Seon-Ju Yi

111A pilot project to identify individuals who died from suicide and visited an ED before

deathJenny Robertson

112 Analisis of leptospirosis lethal cases in Lviv region Olena Zubach

113 Analysing Trends of Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS) and Dengue cases in Hong Kong Xin Wang

114 Animals positive for Yersinia pestis in Armenia Ruben Danielyan

115 Application of PCR for Surveillance of Natural Foci of Especially Dangerous Pathogens Oksana Semenyshyn

Analytics/Methodologies

Public Health/Population Health Practice

The Poster Session will take place from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM on January 31st in Ballroom D. Authors will be present to discuss their research. Refreshments and light food will be served.

New for 2018, poster judging for the Best Poster will be by vote of all registrants at the conference. Look for an email that will provide your link to the vo�ng app.

Select your three favorite posters and cast your vote before the end of the evening. Vo�ng will be by the number assigned to the poster, both listed here in the program and on each poster board.

Posters will remain in place for informal viewing on February 1 un�l 10:00 AM. Authors are not required to be present during the informal session on February 1.

Poster Directory


116 Barriers and facilitators of reporting foodborne illness Jonathan Chua

117 Beyond Mortality: Violent Injury Surveillance Using NC DETECT ED Visit Data Katherine Harmon

118 Burden and Trend of Measles in Nigeria: Five-year Review Case-base Surveillance Data Baffa Ibrahim

119Factors associated with hospitalization due to streptococcal infection in Houston,

Texas 2015-2016Razina Khayat

120Epidemiological Distribution of Reported Cryptosporidiosis cases in Houston, Texas,

2013-2016Razina Khayat

121 Epizootic Monitoring of Erysipeloid Foci in the Republic of Armenia, 2007-2016 Laura Mkrtchyan

122 Epizootologic Potential of Certain Natural Foci Infections in Northeastern Armenia Arsen Manucharyan

123 Evaluating the burden of brucellosis in hospitalized patients in Armenia, 2016 Vigen Asoyan

124 Morbidity patterns associated with seasonal influenza A/H1N1in Swaziland Vusie Lokotfwako

125Evaluating the sensitivity of a passive diarrheal disease surveillance system during a

post-droughtVusie Lokotfwako

126Evaluating the Use of Syndromic Surveillance in Detecting Hepatitis A in Los Angeles

CountyMichael Lim

127 Evaluation of an arboviral syndrome query used in Maricopa County, Arizona Kaitlyn Sykes

128 Experience of GIS Technology Application in the Surveillance of Tick-Borne Infections Iryna Ben

129 Farm Biosecurity at backyard poultry of Bangladesh and its role in spread of HPAIMuhammad

Asaduzzaman

130 Fleas as Vectors of Especially Dangerous Infections in Jermuk Region, 2010-2016 Lusine Markosyan

131Genotyping of pathogenic leptospira by Multiple Locus Variable-number Tandem

Repeat Analysis (MLVA)Vitalii Ukhovskyi

132How Missing Discharge Diagnosis Data in Syndromic Surveillance Leads to Outbreak

Coverage GapsKayley Dotson

133 Implementation of a Facility Based County Surveillance System Using Epi Info Samantha Spoto

134 Influenza Sentinel Surveillance System in Surb Astvatsamayr Medical Center, 2013-15 Liana Torosyan

135 Lessons Learned from a Healthcare Associated Infection Tabletop Exercise, June 2017 Rachel Ilic

Public Health/Population Health Practice, Continued


Poster Directory


136 Medicaid claims data to supplement Zika-related birth defects case identification Carrie Mills

137 Modelling the transmission and control strategies of varicella in Shenzhen Xiujuan Tang

138Molecular Characterization of Salmonella spp. from Cattle and Chicken Farms in

UgandaTakiyah Ball

139 Monitoring of the Empidemic Situation with Q Fever in the Regions of Ukraine Olha Zarichna

140 Morbidity surveillance and treatment of MDR-TB with the support of NGOs in Ukraine INga Pozharova

141 Mortality surveillance in the Netherlands: severity of winter 2016/2017 Liselotte van Asten

142NBIC Biofeeds: Deploying a New Digital Tool for Open Source Biosurveillance across

Federal AgenciesHeather Baker

143 Outbreak of ED visits related to the use of synthetic cannabinoids, Mayotte Island Pascal Vilain

144 Problems of Epidemiological Surveillance of West Nile Fever in Ukraine Olena Nesterova

145 Profile: Karachi Health and Demographic Surveillance System of Pakistan (KHDSS) Komal Naeem

146 Public Health Surveillance for the Great American Solar Eclipse in Oregon Laurel Boyd

147 Qualitative and Quantitative Predictions of Infectious Diseases in Shirak Marz Armine Andryan

148 Risk of HIV among the seasonal Labour Migrants of Nepal Satya Narayan Yadav

149Sero-prevalence of bovine and human brucellosis on selected farms in South-western

UgandaMary Nanfuka

150 Seroprevalence and Molecular Epidemiosurveillance of Brucellosis in Pakistan Usman Waheed

151 Suitability of Data for the Surveillance of Toxicological Events in Companion Animals Alexandra Swirski

152Surveillance for Prevention & Identification of GI Illness Outbreaks Associated with

Swimming Sheharyar Minhas

153Tourism and Health Information System (THiS) in the Caribbean, June-September

2017Jonathan Edwin

154Tracking Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome in Missouri: Trends and the ICD-CM

TransitionWhitney Coffey

155 Travel and Triage: Pilot project to detect infections after health-tourism procedures Pinar Erdogdu

156 Viral causes of Influenza Like Illness in Uganda, 2008 to 2017 Derrick Mimbe

157Conducting operational research during outbreaks to improve preparedness and

responseDiane Meyer


Poster Directory


158 A Semantic Framework to Improve Interoperability of Malaria Surveillance SystemsJon Hael Simon

Brenas

159Electronic case reporting of STIs: Are non-existent codes the reason for missing

information?Crystal Snare

160Impact of User's Experience with a Web-Based Reporting Portal on Timeliness and

Quality of ReportingLixuan Wang

161 Implemention of a Laboratory Information System in Zimbabwe Rita Sembajwe

162 Leveraging Discussions on Reddit for Disease Surveillance Albert Park

163 Leveraging the NSSP R Studio Server to Automate QA Monitoring and Reporting Peter Rock

164 Revitalizing the Global Public Health Intelligence Network (GPHIN) Dave Carter

165 Using a One Health Aapproach to Build an Integrated Surveillance Data System Wayne Clifford

166Developing policy to support novel Caribbean Tourism and Health surveillance

programLisa Indar

167 NBIC Collaboration at Multiple Jurisdictional Levels During the Zika Epidemic Emily Iarocci

168 Princess Marina Hospital HIV rates:Interrupted time series analysis for policy review Mooketsi Molefi

169Sero-prevalence of foot and mouth disease in cattle in Borena Zone, Oromia regional

state, Ethiopia

Asamenew Tesfaye

Melkamsew

170Status of Legislation and Factors affecting Disease Surveillance in Nigeria: A qualitative

inquiryOlusesan Makinde

171 Using real-time syndromic surveillance to monitor the health effects of air pollution Sally Harcourt

Informatics

Policy (at local, state, federal, international levels)

ISDS Groups & Commi�ees


Analy�c Solu�ons Commi�ee (ASC)Chair: Ian PainterMission Statement: The purpose of the ISDS Analy�c Solu�ons Commi�e (ASC) is to facilitate and expedite the development, evalua�on, and implementa�on of technical methods for public health surveillance.

Ac�vi�es:The Analy�c Solu�ons Commi�ee accomplishes its mission by:• Collec�ng, classifying, pos�ng use cases (problem descrip�ons, requests for assistance) from public health professionals.• Discussing use cases as needed in open forums to derive well-defined technical problems of prac�cal interest.• Obtaining or deriving benchmark datasets corresponding to use case problems.• Documen�ng problems in template form as with available benchmark datasets.• Dissemina�ng completed use case templates to the community of solu�on developers.• Valida�ng submi�ed solu�on methods based on results submi�ed by developer (is it understandable, does it do what it says, etc).• Dissemina�ng solu�on methods to user community and assis�ng with documenta�on.

Arizona BioSense Group (AZ BioSense)Chairs: Krystal Collier, Sara Imholte JohnstonMission Statement:The mission of the Arizona BioSense Workgroup is to work collabora�vely as partners to build capacity and quality of BioSense syndromic surveillance in Arizona. Our vision is to improve popula�on health and emergency response through the use of �mely and effec�ve syndromic surveillance.

Ac�vi�es:Hold bi-monthly mee�ngs, maintain a yearly workplan, and set �melines to achieve goals through collabora�ve partnerships, such as support for the AZ Exploratory Analysis Subgroup ac�vi�es.

Awards Sub-Commi�ee (AC)Chair: Eric LauMission Statement:1) To increase awareness and interest in the ac�vi�es of ISDS, its Research Commi�ee (RC), and the Literature Review Subcommi�ee (LRS) by issuing an award in recogni�on of outstanding research literature in biosurveillance, as judged by ISDS membership.2) To recognize the exemplary work being done by students or recent graduates in the field of biosurveillance by issuing an award for outstanding student or post-degree abstract for the annual ISDS conference.

Ac�vi�es:The Awards Sub-Commi�ee (AC) of the ISDS Research Commi�ee invites members once a year at the beginning of May to par�cipate in the nomina�on and review process for the Awards for Outstanding Research Ar�cles for Biosurveillance and Award for Outstanding Student or Post-Degree Abstract.

Data Quality Commi�ee (DQC)Chairs: Jill Baber, Sophia CrossenMission Statement:Our mission as the Data Quality Commi�ee (DQC) is to engage the Syndromic Community of Prac�ce to iden�fy and a�empt to address syndromic surveillance data quality challenges with though�ul discussion and the inclusion of outside stakeholders. We strive to foster rela�onships between all groups with a hand in syndromic messaging in order to be�er syndromic surveillance prac�ce for everyone.

Ac�vi�es:The primary ac�vi�es of the DQC are to work together as a community to monitor and address data quality issues across jurisdic�ons. Ac�vi�es include sharing best prac�ces, keeping other jurisdic�ons informed of new poten�al issues, and crea�ng connec�ons between stakeholders to more efficiently address shared data quality issues.

ESSENCE User Group (ESSENCE)Chair: Wayne LoschenMission Statement: To provide a place to discuss ESSENCE best prac�ces, issues, feature requests, and any other ESSENCE-related discussions.

Ac�vi�es:A user forum is available for everyone to discuss their uses of ESSENCE.

Fight the Bite (FB)Chairs: Krystal Collier, Heather Venkat, Kara TarterMission Statement:To provide a forum for con�nued resource sharing and discussion among par�cipants of the “Assessing Risk for Emerging Arboviral Disease” consultancy.

Ac�vi�es:The “Assessing Risk for Emerging Arboviral Disease” consultancy was hosted by the Arizona Department of Health Services, ISDS, and the Defense Threat Reduc�on Agency in Phoenix, AZ from June 14-15, 2016. The “Fight the Bite” chapter serves as a private resource library and forum for con�nued discussion for consultancy par�cipants.

Intermountain Syndromic Surveillance Collabora�ve ISSC)Chair: Wei HouMission Statement: The mission of the ISSC group is to work collabora�vely to strengthen the community of prac�ce among par�cipa�ng states.

Ac�vi�es:The ISSC group consists of local and state public health partners from Idaho, Nevada, and Utah. The specific goals include sharing queries, crea�ng queries of regional importance, and working towards informa�on sharing among par�cipa�ng states.

KR Cura�on Team (KR)Chair: Emilie LambMission Statement:To support ISDS in the development and cura�on of

the Surveillance Knowledge Repository by to ensure that the repository remains current and relevant to the syndromic surveillance community.

Literature Review Subcommi�ee (LRS)Chair: Howard Burkom

Ac�vi�es:The Literature Review Sub-Commi�ee of the ISDS Research Commi�ee meets weekly to discuss new publica�ons deemed of interest to the larger ISDS community. Ar�cles are found on Scopus, the largest database of abstracts and cita�ons of peer-reviewed literature, using numerous filters that capture the range of exper�se present in the society. Those of high quality or broad appeal, and make significant contribu�ons to biosurveillance, are also considered for the annual Awards for Outstanding Research Ar�cles in Biosurveillance. Selected ar�cles are posted weekly on this site in the Literature Review Library and are also sent out to members who request to receive the list through email subscrip�on.

Message Guide Workgroup (MG)Chairs: Emilie Lamb, David TrepanierMission Statement:The goals of the group include:• Facilitate the review, comment, and update process for the Implementa�on Guide for Syndromic Surveillance (derived from the CDC PHIN Messaging Guide for Syndromic Surveillance, version 2.0)• Provide a forum to solicit and capture concerns, comments, and update requests from public health professionals as well as vendors• Oversee the coordina�on and development of an updated version of the guide derived from community comments• Shepherd the Implementa�on Guide through the HL7 ballo�ng process from February 2018 through May 2018 process

Ac�vi�es:The Messaging Guide Workgroup is working to prepare the next version of the Syndromic Surveillance Messaging Guide for HL7 Ballo�ng.

ISDS Groups and Commi�ees




Metadata Visualiza�on Applica�on Workgroup (MVA)Chairs: Jill Baber, Harold GilMission Statement:To create a metric visualiza�on tool which jurisdic�ons could use to help them connect and collaborate in resolving data quality issues with EHR vendors.

Ac�vi�es:The Metadata Visualiza�on App (MVA) workgroup has been developing a metadata visualiza�on applica�on as part of a proof of concept tool containing jurisdic�on specific informa�on on Electronic Health Record (EHR) vendors, EHR vendor products, aggregate data quality metrics (�meliness, validity and completeness), and facility types par�cipa�ng in syndromic surveillance.

The applica�on is being developed in RStudio Professional as a Shared Project Shiny app. Access to this applica�on will only be available to the Na�onal Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP) Community of Prac�ce (CoP) public health jurisdic�ons that choose to par�cipate.

NorthEast Surveillance Region (NorthEast)Chairs: Rosa Ergas, Teresa Hamby, David SwensonMission Statement:The Northeast Surveillance Region Chapter’s mission is to provide a loca�on for colleagues to communicate and collaborate on data sharing and other issues that may arise within the par�cipa�ng regional jurisdic�ons.

Syndromic surveillance prac��oners and colleagues in states and jurisdic�ons in HHS Regions 1, 2 and part of 3 (Delaware and Pennsylvania) are invited to par�cipate in this group.

Ac�vi�es:A major focus of this chapter has been to bring regional partners together in person by organizing and hos�ng annual regional mee�ngs in conjunc�on

with our regional epidemiology conference, NorthEast Epi.

One Health Surveillance Community of Prac�ce (OHS)Chair: Karen MeidenbauerMission Statement:The purpose of the One Health Surveillance Community of Prac�ce is to engage its members in the advancement of this important and topical field.

Overdose Surveillance Commi�ee (ODSC)Chairs: Peter Rock, Sandra Gonzalez, Yushiuan ChenMission Statement:The mission of this group is to organize and connect community members who are interested in overdose surveillance to discuss various issues concerning to this topic.

At the end, our overall goal is to best use the informa�on to enhance the communica�ons between syndromic surveillance community and other overdose experts from different disciplines.

Ac�vi�es:The Overdose Surveillance Commi�ee ac�vi�es focus on connec�ng opioid overdose work from different communi�es, enhancing informa�on sharing, and providing recommenda�ons.• Provide rou�ne updates from workgroups with similar objec�ves to ensure group members receive consistent and more complete informa�on.• Stay connected with other ISDS workgroups. • Provide a pla�orm for partners to share their valuable experiences from their work associated with drug overdose.• Create opportuni�es by organizing a subgroup to share exper�se on specific areas and create a recommenda�on guide related to overdose surveillance.


R Group for Biosurveillance ®Chair: Eric BakotaMission Statement:To Connect R Users and Advance the Prac�ce of R in Public Health Surveillance by:• Enabling new and inexperienced users to gain the skills required for the data management, analysis, and visualiza�on tasks that they seek using the R language.• Facilita�ng the sharing of approaches, programming techniques, and code among current users.• Encouraging involvement with the growing global community of epidemiologists and developers using R to advance the science of disease surveillance.

Ac�vi�es:The R Group hosts monthly webinars. These webinars typically fall into 3 categories:• Research: A public health researcher who uses R will present their work, as well as the code used to conduct the analysis. These are o�en highly technical, both in coding and in the sta�s�cal analyses used. They are a great way to see what is happening in academia at the intersec�on of R and surveillance.• Prac�ce: A public health prac��oner will share an applica�on they made in R. These applica�ons are o�en in RShiny or RMarkdown. They are tools that could be useful at your agency, and we encourage everyone to explore the code used to make these tools.• Tutorials: An experienced R user will provide a tutorial on how to use a package, a set of packages, or conduct a specific type of analysis. These webinars tend to be accessible to every level of R users, including newcomers.• Hangouts: A group member will lead an open-ended ‘hangout’ session where a�endees are encouraged to share their r-related ques�ons and problems for their peers to discuss and (hopefully) solve. A great way for new R users to network with experienced R users.

Region 7 Data Sharing Group (Region 7)Chair: Greg CrawfordMission Statement:Facilitate the sharing and use of syndromic surveillance data among state jurisdic�ons, local health departments and hospitals via ESSENCE to support preven�on of illness and injury.

Ac�vi�es:This is a group consis�ng of public health agency staff in Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, and Iowa working with Syndromic Surveillance data collected within Region 7. Membership is open to local health department staff and other public health staff working with the data.

Region 8 Data Sharing Group (Region 8)Chair: Jill BaberMission Statement:The purpose of this group is to foster the collabora�on of syndromic surveillance colleagues within the 8th HHS region through the sharing of informa�on and exper�se.

Ac�vi�es:Ac�vi�es include as-needed calls, crea�ng a repository of contact informa�on, and working to iden�fy poten�al future collabora�on projects. The group recognizes that establishing collabora�ve rela�onships between jurisdic�ons can be a crucial step in preparing for emerging issues that may occur in the region.




Region 9 Data Sharing Group (Region 9)Chair: Jessica WhiteMission Statement:To promote regional public health data sharing and collabora�on by enhancing par�cipant competency in syndromic surveillance, sharing knowledge of partner prac�ces, and developing plans to advance regional data sharing and coopera�on.

Ac�vi�es:The Region 9 Data Sharing workgroup is the official ISDS regional chapter for the Southwestern United States and Hawaii. Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, and New Mexico share similar public health priori�es and surveillance ac�vi�es due to their hot climate and proximity to interna�onal borders. The workgroup welcomes members who are interested in regional syndromic surveillance ac�vi�es.

Region X NSSP Collabora�ve (Region X)Chairs: Natasha Close, Anna FrickMission Statement:To promote collabora�on among Region X public health surveillance programs.

Ac�vi�es:This group serves as a collabora�ve space for public health surveillance prac��oners from HHS Region X.

Research Commi�ee (RC)Chair: Howard BurkomMission Statement:The Research Commi�ee promotes research in advanced disease surveillance with a variety of ac�vi�es serving the professional and educa�onal needs of society members.

Ac�vi�es:Commi�ee ac�vi�es include webinars covering analy�cs, public health/epidemiology, informa�cs, and policy topics; a weekly scan of new related journal ar�cles; an updated list of priori�es for the global research communi�es; awards for outstanding publica�ons and student abstracts; and ini�a�on of

new workgroups such as the R group for disease surveillance and Analy�c Solu�ons Commi�ee.

NSSP Community of Prac�ce (NSSP CoP)Chair: Emilie LambMission Statement:The Na�onal Syndromic Surveillance Program Community of Prac�ce serves (NSSP CoP) the needs and interests of the Syndromic Surveillance (SyS) community through leveraging the exper�se and resources of its members; and strengthens health surveillance capabili�es na�onwide by advancing SyS prac�ce and the u�liza�on of SyS pla�orms (including the NSSP BioSense Pla�orm).

Ac�vi�es:The NSSP CoP is a way to engage with peers—whether by asking or answering ques�ons posed on forums, a�ending webinars and training events, or sharing ideas and success stories. Par�cipa�on in the NSSP CoP will help prac��oners stay abreast of advances in the science and prac�ce of syndromic surveillance. The NSSP CoP facilitates learning, knowledge sharing, and problem solving among prac��oners who want to integrate syndromic surveillance more fully into daily prac�ce and use its inherent early-warning capabili�es to complement ongoing public health surveillance.

Syndrome Defini�on Commi�ee (Syn Def)Chairs: Rasneet Kumar, Zach, SteinMission Statement:Our mission as the Syndrome Defini�on Commi�ee is to create, evaluate, and refine syndrome defini�ons, link users with similar syndrome defini�on needs, and create documenta�on along the way. We seek to be a resource for collabora�on and best prac�ces in the syndrome defini�on crea�on process.

Ac�vi�es:The SDC is a newer ISDS Commi�ee. Regular ac�vi�es involve managing the Syndrome Defini�on Library and documen�ng the processes behind syndrome defini�on crea�on and evalua�on.


Urgent Care Workgroup (UG)Chairs: Emily Stephens, David SwensonMission Statement:The group's mission is to gather informa�on about urgent care (UC) data surveillance, provide a jus�fica�on why this data is needed, and create an abstract for the 2018 Interna�onal Society for Disease Surveillance (ISDS) Conference.

Ac�vi�es:• Perform Urgent Care literature review• Conduct monthly mee�ngs to review progress and get jurisdic�onal UC onboarding feedback • Conduct workgroup mee�ngs (as needed) to develop UC jus�fica�on and support documents


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