INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR DISEASE SURVEILLANCE
Publications, Presentations, and Products
(2009-2012)
Publications
Diamond CC, Mostashari F, Shirky C. Collecting and sharing data for population health: a new paradigm.
Health Affairs 2009;28(2):455-466. http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/full/28/2/454
Olson DR, Baer A, Coletta MA, Deyneka L, Gentry R, Ising A, Murray EL, Paladini M, Pendarvis J, Soetebier
K, Konty KJ, Schulmann J, Engel J, Gunn J, Rolfs RT, Mostashari F. Searching for better flu
surveillance? Nature Precedings 2009;3493:1. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/npre.2009.3493.1
Chapman WW, Dowling JN, Baer A, Buckeridge DL, Cochrane D, Conway MA, Elkin P, Espino J, Gunn JE,
Hales CM, Hutwagner L, Keller M, Larson C, Noe R, Okhmatovskaia A, Olson K, Paladini M, Scholer M,
Sniegoski C, Thompson D, Lober B. Developing syndrome definitions based on consensus and
current use. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2010 Sep-Oct;17(5):595-601.
http://jamia.bmj.com/content/17/5/595.long
Baer A, Olson DR, Brownstein JS. International Society for Disease Surveillance Conference 2010: Enhancing
the Synergy Between Research, Informatics, and Practice in Public Health - complete supplement.
Emerging Health Threats Journal 2011, 4:s7. doi: 10.3134/ehtj.10.007.
Reeder B, Revere D, Olson DR, Lober WB. Perceived usefulness of a distributed community-based
syndromic surveillance system: a pilot qualitative evaluation study. BMC Research Notes 2011, 4:187
doi:10.1186/1756-0500-4-187. http://www.biomedcentral.com/1756-0500/4/187/
Olson DR, Paladini M, Lober WB, Buckeridge DL, for the ISDS DiSTRIBuTE Working Group. Applying a New
Model for Sharing Population Health Data to National Syndromic Influenza Surveillance: DiSTRIBuTE
Project Proof of Concept, 2006 to 2009. PLoS Currents: Influenza. 2011 Jul 8. Available from:
http://knol.google.com/k/donald-r-olson/applying-a-new-model-for-sharing/261w1jjdm6zrb/5.
Buckeridge DL, Brownstein JS, Lober WB, Olson DR, Paladini M, Ross D, Finelli L, Kass-Hout T, Buehler J.
The Distribute Project: Rapid Sharing of Emergency- Department Surveillance Data During the 2009
Influenza A/H1N1 Pandemic. (in preparation).
Olson D, Painter, I; ISDS Distribute Working Group. Monitoring Winter-Seasonal Acute Gastroenteritis
Emergency Department Visits By Age. ISDS 2011 Conference Abstracts. Emerging Health Threats
Journal 2011, 4. Supplement.
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Olson D, Baer A, Paladini M, Burkom H; ISDS Working Group. Adopting a Common Influenza-Like Illness
Syndrome Across Multiple Health Jurisdictions. ISDS 2011 Conference Abstracts. Emerging Health
Threats Journal 2011, 4. Supplement.
Painter I, Eaton J, Revere D, Lober B, Olson D. “Generation of Prediction Intervals to Assess Data Quality in
the Distribute System using Quantile Regression”. Journal to the American Statistical Association.
Section on Statistics in Defense and National Security--JSM 2011: 5172-5179.
Painter I, Olson D, Lober B. Rapid Ad-hoc Cross-Jurisdictional Sharing of Syndrome Data Using Distribute
Technology. ISDS 2011 Conference Abstracts. Emerging Health Threats Journal 2011, 4.
Supplement.
Painter I, Eaton J, Olson D, Revere D, Lober B. How Good is Your Data? ISDS 2011 Conference Abstracts.
Emerging Health Threats Journal 2011, 4. Supplement.
Burkom H, Olson D, Paladini M, Baer A, Revere D. McIntyre A. “Analytic Evaluation of a Standardization
Effort for the DISTRIBUTE Emergency Department Surveillance Project”. Journal to the American
Statistical Association. JSM 2011.
Eaton J, Painter I, Olson D, Lober B. Visualizing Data Quality: Tools and Views. ISDS 2011 Conference
Abstracts. Emerging Health Threats Journal 2011, 4. Supplement.
Kass-Hout TA, Buckeridge DL, Brownstein JS, Xu Z, McMurray P, Ishikawa C, Gunn J, Massoudi B. Self-
Reported Fever and Measured Temperature in Emergency Department Records used for Syndromic
Surveillance.
Lober W, Reeder B, Revere D, Webster E, Goldov K, Bugni P, McReynolds J. Technical Description of the
Distribute Project: A Community-based Syndromic Surveillance System.
Kass-Hout TA, Xu Z, McMurray P, Park S, Buckeridge D, Brownstein J, Finelli L, Groseclose SL. Application
of change point analysis to daily influenza-like illness emergency department visits. JAMIA 15 May
2012.
Taha A Kass-Hout, David L. Buckeridge, John S. Brownstein, Zhiheng Xu, Paul McMurray, Charles K T
Ishikawa, Julia Gunn, Barbara L Massoudi. Self-reported fever and measured temperature in
emergency department records used for syndromic surveillance. J Am Med Inform Assoc 2012;19:5
775-776 Published Online First: 17 May 2012 doi:10.1136/amiajnl-2012-000847.
Reports
Final Recommendation: Core Processes and EHR Requirements for Public Health Syndromic Surveillance.
Available at: http://www.syndromic.org/uploads/files/ISDSRecommendation_FINAL.pdf
Distribute Data Quality Monitoring and Response Guide
Distribute Case Study: Applying Local Perspective to a National Vision for Flu Surveillance
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PHIN Messaging Guide for Syndromic Surveillance: Emergency Department and Urgent Care Data.
Release 1.0. October 2011.
http://www.cdc.gov/phin/library/guides/PHIN_MSG_Guide_for_SS_ED_and_UC_Data_v1_0.pdf
DiSTRIBuTE: A New Paradigm for Influenza Surveillance. ISDS Case Study. June 2011.
Distribute: Strategic Assessment Summary Report. ISDS Brief. June 2011.
Syndromic Surveillance for Influenza-like Illness (ILI): Functionalities of the Distribute System. ISDS Brief.
April 2012.
Syndromic Surveillance for Meaningful Use: Background and Resources. ISDS Brief. April 2012.
Assessment of the Public Health Information Network (PHIN) Messaging Guide for Syndromic
Surveillance: Emergency Department and Urgent Care Data Version 1.0. May 2012.
Electronic Syndromic Surveillance Using Hospital Inpatient and Ambulatory Clinical Care Electronic Health
Record Data: Recommendations from the ISDS Meaningful Use Workgroup. November 2012.
Architectures and Transport Mechanisms for Health Information Interchange of Clinical EHR Data for
Syndromic Surveillance: A Report from the International Society for Disease Surveillance. November
2012.
PHIN Messaging Guide for Syndromic Surveillance: Emergency Department and Urgent Care Data.
Release 2.0. February 2013.
Presentations
Distribute
Mostashari F, Olson DR. ISDS-DiSTRIBuTE meeting with CDC Biosurveillance Coordinating Unit and CDC
Influenza Division: Use of Population-level Syndromic Surveillance for Influenza Monitoring and
Response. Webinar and Teleconference, June 22, 2009.
Olson DR. The DiSTRIBuTE project: the case for linking morbidity, mortality and viral surveillance data.
National Institutes of Health, Fogarty International Center, Bethesda, MD, June 24, 2009.
Olson DR, Brownstein JS. Information Sharing and the 2009 H1N1 Pandemic. Preparedness Directorate
of the White House National Security Staff, White House Conference Center, Washington, DC,
July 10, 2009.
Revere D, Drum A, Hills RA, Lober WB. Understanding public health information management
strategies that support situational awareness in a Health Information Exchange: An ethnographic
approach. CDC PHIN Annual Conference, Aug 2009. Atlanta GA.
Hills RA, Lober WB, Dixon B, Grannis S, Lombardo J, Revere D. Demonstrating interoperability:
Biosurveillance in a model Health Information Exchange. CDC PHIN Annual Conference, Aug
2009. Atlanta GA.
Painter I, Revere D, Lober WB. An agile syndromic surveillance technical infrastructure: DiSTRIBuTE.
ISDS 8th Annual Conference, Dec 2009. Miami Beach FL.
Olson DR. Data Sharing and DiSTRIBuTE. Pre-Conference Workshop, Eighth Annual Syndromic
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Surveillance Conference, ISDS Miami, FL, December, 2009.
Olson DR, Kass-Hout T, Groseclose S, Brownstein JS & Buckeridge DL. A Changing Paradigm in Public
Health Surveillance: Lessons Learned from the Distribute Project. Seventh International Conference
on Emerging Infectious Diseases, Atlanta, GA, March, 2010.
Buckeridge DL. Innovations in Public Health Surveillance: Lessons Learned from the Rapid Expansion of the
Distribute Project to Support H1N1 Surveillance. CSTE, Annual Meeting, Portland, OR. June 2010.
Olson DR, The Distribute Project: A Changing Paradigm in Public Health Surveillance. Surveillance for
Decision Making in Emerging Diseases: Lessons from 2009 H1N1 Pandemic Influenza Symposium,
Harvard University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, June 2010.
Lober W, Kass-Hout, T, An Innovative, Distributed Surveillance Informatics Infrastructure for H1N1 and
Beyond. Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists, Annual Meeting, Portland, OR, June
2010.
Buckeridge DL. Towards Rapid Data Sharing Across Borders for Public Health. Electronic Infrastructure
for the Learning Healthcare System: The Road to Continuous Improvement in Health and Health
Care. An Institute of Medicine (IOM) Workshop Series Sponsored by the ONC, Washington, DC,
July 27-28, 2010.
Buckeridge DL. Public Health Informatics: Enabling Innovations in Surveillance. Regenstrief Institute
Center of Excellence in Public Health Informatics Annual Symposium, Indiana, IN, September 1,
2010.
Lober WB, Karras BT, Revere D, Distribute: An innovative tool to support public health surveillance.
Washington State Public Health Association, Joint Conference on Health, Annual Meeting,
Yakima, WA, October 2010.
Revere D, Hills R, Karras BT, Lober WB. Distribute: An innovative tool to support public health
surveillance. Joint Conference on Health, Oct 2010. Yakima WA.
Olson DR, Baer A, Paladini M, Burkom H, Revere D, Painter I, Lober WB, Brownstein JS, and Buckeridge
DL, for the Distribute Research and Evaluation Working Group. Evaluating a standard influenza-
like illness syndrome definition across multiple sites in the distribute project: The ‘ILI-s’ Pilot.
ISDS Annual Conference, Park City, Utah, December 2010.
Reeder B, Revere D, Utility Assessment of a Community-Based Syndromic Surveillance System:
Preliminary Pilot Results, International Society for Disease Surveillance Annual Meeting, Park City,
Utah, December 2010.
Eaton J, Painter I, Revere D, Lober B, Olson D. Using Prediction Intervals to Determine the Effect of
Timeliness on Accuracy for ILI Ratios. CSTE, Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA. June 2011.
Lober WB, Olson DR, ISDS Distribute Research and Evaluation Working Group. Distribute Surveillance
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System: View of the 2010-2011 Flu Season. CSTE, Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA. June 2011.
Olson D, Reeder B, ISDS Distribute Research and Evaluation Working Group. Adopting and Assessing
the Use of A Common ILI Syndrome For Monitoring and Estimating Impact from Influenza
Across Multiple Sites in the Distribute Project. CSTE, Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA. June 2011.
Painter I, Olson D, Gifford A, Eaton J, Johnson M, Lober W, Revere D, Reeder B, Baseman B, Data
Quality Monitoring Approaches in the Distribute System, CSTE, Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA.
June 2011.
Paladini M. The DISTRIBUTE Project, Syndromic Surveillance and the New Paradigm for Public Health
Data Sharing and Analysis. Joint Statistical Meeting. Aug 2011.
Painter I, Eaton J, Revere D, Lober B, Olson D. Generation of Prediction Intervals to Assess Data Quality
in the Distribute System using Quantile Regression. Joint Statistical Meeting. Aug 2011.
Burkom H, Olson D, Paladini M, Baer A, Revere D. Analytic Evaluation of a Standardization Effort for the
DISTRIBUTE Emergency Department Surveillance Project. Joint Statistical Meeting. Aug 2011.
Eaton J, Painter I, Olson D, Lober B. Visualizing Data Quality: Tools and Views. ISDS 2011 Conference.
Atlanta, GA. Dec 2011.
Olson D, Painter, I; ISDS Distribute Working Group. Monitoring Winter-Seasonal Acute Gastroenteritis
Emergency Department Visits By Age. ISDS 2011 Conference. Atlanta, GA. Dec 2011.
Olson D, Baer A, Paladini M, Burkom H; ISDS Working Group. Adopting a Common Influenza-Like
Illness Syndrome Across Multiple Health Jurisdictions. ISDS 2011 Conference. Atlanta, GA. Dec
2011.
Painter I, Olson D, Lober B. Rapid Ad-hoc Cross-Jurisdictional Sharing of Syndrome Data Using
Distribute Technology. ISDS 2011 Conference. Atlanta, GA. Dec 2011.
Painter I, Eaton J, Olson D, Revere D, Lober B. How Good is Your Data? ISDS 2011 Conference. Atlanta,
GA. Dec 2011.
Painter I, Eaton J, Johnson M, Olson D, Gifford A, Revere D, Lober W. Improving Public Health
Surveillance Through Improved System Monitoring: An In-Depth Data Quality Analysis. CDC
Public Health Informatics Conference, Atlanta, GA, Aug 2011.
Olson DR. Searching for Better Flu Surveillance? Early Experience with Distribute and Google Flu Trends
Performance; Perspectives on Harnessing Surveillance Data for Response. Johns Hopkins
University, Expert Panel on Influenza Surveillance and Response, Baltimore, MD, Nov 2011.
Meaningful Use
Ising A, ISDS Recommends Syndromic Surveillance Requirements to Support Meaningful
Use. Healthcare Information Management Systems Society, Annual Conference and Exhibition.
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Orlando, FL. February 2011.
Kass-Hout T, Ishikawa C, et al. BioSense Program Redesign, Meaningful Use, and Syndromic
Surveillance. Healthcare Information Management Systems Society, Annual Conference. Orlando,
FL. February 2011.
Kass-Hout T, Ishikawa C, et al. BioSense Program Redesign, Meaningful Use, and Syndromic
Surveillance. International Meeting on Emerging Diseases and Surveillance, Vienna, Austria.
February, 2011.
Ishikawa C, Buckeridge D, Kass-Hout T, Lipski N, Minami M, Chertcoff D, Arzt N, Coletta M, Public-
Private Partnership Enables Rapid Development of Syndromic Surveillance Standards for
Meaningful Use. AMIA Public Health Informatics 2011, Orlando, FL, May 2011.
Coletta M, Kass-Hout T. Syndromic Surveillance Requirements and Meaningful Use. Council of State
and Territorial Epidemiologists, Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA. June, 2011.
Ishikawa C and Roja-Smith L. The ISDS Recommended Core Syndromic Surveillance Business Process
Applied: Where can technology enhance your work? Pre-Conference BioSense Workshop.
Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists, Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA. June, 2011.
Ishikawa C, Buckeridge D, Kass-Hout T, Novel approaches in public health surveillance: Healthmap,
BioSense program redesign, meaningful use, and syndromic surveillance. INFORMS Health IT
Meeting, Montreal, CA, June 2011.
Ishikawa C, Gunn J, and Kass-Hout T, Making the Most of Meaningful Use: Enhancing Surveillance with
Syndromic Surveillance Standards. National Association of City and County Health Officials,
Annual Meeting. Hartford, CT. July 2011.
Ishikawa C, Buckeridge D, Chapman W, Day M, Streichert L. Free-Text Chief Complaint: Why Syndromic
Surveillance Needs Unstructured Data. Public Health Informatics 2011 Conference. Atlanta, GA,
August 2011.
Ishikawa, C. Syndromic Surveillance for Meaningful Use. PHSIPO/CDC Lunch Bucket Talk, Atlanta, GA,
April 2012.
Zwickl R. Utility of Syndromic Surveillance Using Novel Clinical Data Sources. ISDS 2012 Conference,
San Diego, CA, December 2012.
Honoré P and Streichert L. Disease Surveillance and Achieving Synergy in Public Health Quality
Improvement. ISDS 2012 Conference, San Diego, CA, December 2012.
Reynolds T. Collaboration for Improved Disease Surveillance Literature Review. ISDS 2012 Conference,
San Diego, CA, December 2012.
Reynolds T. Data Quality: A Systematic Review of the Biosurveillance Literature. ISDS 2012 Conference,
San Diego, CA, December 2012.
Johnson G. Recommendations for Syndromic Surveillance Using Inpatient and Ambulatory EHR Data.
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ISDS 2012 Conference, San Diego, CA. December 2012.
Ishikawa C. The HITECH Game Changer: Meaningful Use and What’s in it for Public Health. ACPM 2013,
Scottsdale, AZ, February 20, 2013.
Electronic Communications
ISDS Web site (www.syndromic.org)
Distribute Public Site (http://www.isdsdistribute.org/)
This site shows Proportion of Emergency Department Visits For
Influenza-like Illness (ILI) per
Week.
Distribute Restricted Site (https://isds-auth.cirg.washington.edu/)
This site shows daily and weekly syndromic and total visit counts and proportions for ED visits
for ILI and GI syndromes. It also includes user-generated comparisons, and site-specific details
about jurisdictions, their data collection procedures, and the characteristics of their reporting.
Monthly Electronic Newsletters
The Distribute Share is a monthly electronic newsletter that provides the Distribute community with
news regarding relevant surveillance topics, ISDS events and announcements, tips for using the
Distribute system, ISDS project and committee updates, and national influenza summaries. The
share is sent to over 170 people monthly. ISDS also sends a monthly newsletter to its 300+
members.
Distribute Community Forum
This on-line tool for information exchange, collaboration and learning among serves Distribute
contributors and project partners. The Forum is a secure, by invitation only space, administered by
ISDS. Within the Forum, users are welcome to connect with other surveillance professionals, learn,
solve problems, and exchange ideas and innovative tools.
Social Media
Facebook
www.facebook.com/syndromic
Twitter
http://twitter.com/ISDS
LinkedIn
http://www.linkedin.com/groups/International-Society-Disease-Surveillance-3966250
Youtube
http://www.youtube.com/user/ISDSurveillance
Video Sharing
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Vimeo
http://vimeo.com/syndromic
Education & Training
Online Learning
Syndromic Surveillance 101 (SS101)
ISDS, Tufts University School of Medicine, and Tufts Health Care Institute are jointly sponsoring
this online course, comprised of a series of 4 modules, which provides an overview of
syndromic surveillance.
Each module features an audio presentation, accompanied by slides and followed with an
evaluation and post-test. Each module is approximately one-hour in length. This activity has been
approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Contact hours will be awarded for nurses.
WEBINARS:
2012: Archived 2012 webinars found here: http://www.syndromic.org/webinars/archives/2012
IHR Event Assessment and Reporting—The CDC Experience. Dr. Katrin Kohl, MD, PhD, MPH/DTM, Deputy
Director, DGMQ, NCEZID, CDC. 1/12/2012.
Introduction to the National Emergency Medical Services Information System (NEMSIS) and Its Potential
Uses in Syndromic Surveillance. Dr. Clay Mann, University of Utah Department of Pediatrics, Gamunu
Wijetunge, MPA, DOT, Bernice Boursiquot, MPH, DOT. 1/31/2012.
Public Health Surveillance in the Internet Cloud: The BioSense 2.0 Experience. Jeff Barr, Amazon, Mike
Alletto, CDC BioSense 2.0 Redesign Team, Taha Kass-Hout, MD, MS, Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention. 2/9/2012.
Discovering the New Frontier of Syndromic Surveillance: A Meaningful Use Dialogue on Inpatient and
Ambulatory EHR Technology. Michelle Seifert, MT, Cerner Corporation, Corey Spears, McKesson
Corporation. 3/1/2012.
Discovering the New Frontier of Syndromic Surveillance: A Meaningful Use Dialogue on the Missouri
Implementation. Amy Kelsey, MPH, Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services. 3/6/2012.
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Discovering the New Frontier of Syndromic Surveillance: A Meaningful Use Dialogue on the Nebraska and
Washington Implementations. Natasha Close, MPH, Washington State Department of Health, Eryn
Murphy, MS, Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services. 3/8/2012.
Discovering the New Frontier of Syndromic Surveillance: A Meaningful Use Dialogue on the Department of
Veterans Affairs Implementation. Cynthia Lucero, MD CIC, Department of Veterans Affairs.
3/15/2012.
Discovering the New Frontier of Syndromic Surveillance: A Meaningful Use Dialogue on the BioSense
Implementation. Taha Kass-Hout, MD, MS, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 3/19/2012.
Discovering the New Frontier of Syndromic Surveillance: A Meaningful Use Dialogue on the NYC
Implementation. Steve Di Lonardo, MSc, Winfred Wu, MD, MPH, New York City Department of
Health and Mental Hygiene. 3/21/2012.
Understanding the Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) for Meaningful Use Stage 2: The Public
Health Perspective. James Daniel, MPH, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information
Technology. 3/28/2012.
Rapid Surveillance and Data Integration for Targeted Injury Prevention: A Syndromic Surveillance
Description of Bicycle-Related Injuries in Boston. Marcus Rennick, MPH, Aileen Shen, MPH, Boston
Public Health Comission. 4/2/2012.
Syndromic Surveillance in Integrated Disease Surveillance Project (ISDP) and Pre Hospital Emergency Care
in India. Dr. Biranchi Jena, Emergency Management and Research Institute and Dr. Vivek Singh,
Public Health Foundation of India. 4/25/2012, 4/26/2012.
BioSense 2.0 Grant Opportunity to Build Surveillance Capacity. Sharon Campolucci, RN, MSN, FNP, Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention. 5/30/12.
Open Source Syndromic Surveillance Transport Tool for Meaningful Use. Kieran Dunne, MS, Agilex
Technologies. 6/13/12.
Discover the 2012 ISDS Conference. Amy Ising, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Bill Storm,
Ohio Department of Health. 6/21/12.
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Application and Visualization of Twitter Data for Disease Surveillance. Courtney Corley, Pacific Northwest
National Laboratory, Marcel Salathe, Pennsylvania State University, Mark Cameron, Commonwealth
Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO). 6/28/12.
Utilization of ESSENCE in the Cloud for Enhanced Surveillance during the 2012 NATO Summit. Megan
Patel, MPH, Cook County Department of Public Health. 7/17/12.
Overview of the CDC Surveillance and Informatics Program Office Strategic Plan. James Buehler, MD,
Public Health Surveillance and Informatics Program Office, CDC. 8/16/12.
Data Quality Monitoring and Evaluation of Public Health Surveillance in European Countries, 2012. Isabelle
Devaux (ECDC), Scott McNabb (Emory University), and Bruno Ciancio (ECDC). 9/13/12.
Query Health: Using Distributed Population Queries for Public Health Surveillance. John Feikema (ONC)
and Erik Pupo (Deloitte Consulting). 9/28/12.
Alas! Meaningful EHR Certification for Syndromic Surveillance. Robert Snelick (National Institute of
Standards and Technology) and Sheryl Taylor (Booz Allen Hamilton). 10/11/12.
October Public Health Practice Influenza Surveillance Webinar. Krista Kniss (CDC) and Scott Epperson
(CDC). 10/22/12.
Introducing the HHS Framework for Quality in the Public Health System. Peggy Honoré, US Department of
Health and Human Services. 11/13/12.
The National Operational Epidemiological Modeling Process. Jeff Schlegelmilch, Yale New Haven Center
for Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Response. 11/26/12.
Towards Integrated Syndromic Surveillance in Europe? Duncan Cooper, National Health Services, UK.
11/27/12.
2012 ISDS Recommendations for the Syndromic Surveillance Frontier: Inpatient and Ambulatory Clinical
Data Sources. Geraldine Johnson, New York State Department of Health. 11/29/12.
How Syndromic Surveillance Helps Clinical Practice: Use of Epidemiological Surveillance Data to Inform
Clinical Decisions. Andrew Fine, MD, MPH, Harvard Medical School. 12/14/12.
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2011: Archived 2011 webinars found here: http://www.syndromic.org/webinars/archives/2011
Spatial Scanning Tips and Tricks for Practical Outbreak Detection. Daniel B. Neill, PhD, Carnegie Mellon
University, 1/27/2011.
Environmental Data Management and its Application to Public Health. Amy Budge, Health Working
Group Chair, Earth Data Analysis Center, University of New Mexico; Stan Morain, Health Working
Group Secretary, Earth Data Analysis Center, University of New Mexico; Richard Kiang, Health
Working Group Co-Chair, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; Clara Witt, VMD, MPH, Captain,
USPHS, and InterAgency Lisaison, Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center. 2/24/2011.
Redesigning BioSense to Go Beyond Early Event Detection. Barbara Massoudi, MPH, PhD, Senior
Research Health Scientist, Center for the Advancement of Health IT, RTI International and Taha
Kass-Hout, MD, MS, Deputy Division Director for Information Science, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention. 2/2011.
Data-driven approach for creating synthetic electronic medical records. Anna Buczak and Linda Moniz.
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. 5/24/2011.
Discussions on the June 2011 Report of the National Biosurveillance Advisory Subcommittee (NBAS).
Pamela Diaz, CDC. 6/27/2011.
Introduction to IHR: IHR Requirements and Indicators for Monitoring Core Capacity Development. Dr.
Stella Chungong, Lead, IHR Monintoring Team, WHO. 6/27/2011
Making the Most of Meaningful Use: Enhancing Surveillance with Syndromic Surveillance Standards.
Charlie Ishikawa, ISDS 7/25/11.
Illuminating Impediments to IHR Implementation and Possible Interventions. Dr. Scott McNabb, Emory
University. 8/9/2011.
World Trade Center Responders Fatality Investigation Program - Methodologic Issues. Kitty H. Gelberg,
PhD, MPH, Chief, Epidemiology & Surveillance Section, Assistant Director, Bureau of Occupational
Health, New York State Department of Health. 9/12/2011.
Disaster Epidemiology and Surveillance. Sara J. Vagi, PhD, Epidemiologist, National Center for
Environmental Health, Environmental Hazards and Health Effects, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention. 9/26/2011.
Meaningful Use Rules and the PHIN Syndromic Surveillance Messaging Guide. Farzad Mostashari, MD,
ScM, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, Mary Hamilton, RN, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention Message and Vocabulary Team. 10/5/2011.
School Disease Transmission: Has the time come for coordination between monitors and modelers? Gail
Potter, PhD, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Guoyan Zhang, MD, MPH, Miami-Dade
County Health Department
Anthoni Llau, MPH, Miami-Dade County Health Department.
10/18/2011.
Using Gaming Tools to Train Disease Surveillance Professionals and Investigate Next-Generation
Capabilities. Timothy Dasey, PhD, Group Leader, Chemical and Biological Defense, Systems
Group, MIT Lincoln Laboratories. 10/27/2011.
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Syndromic Surveillance for Meaningful Use: Inpatient and Ambulatory Clinical Care Data. Charlie Ishikawa,
MSPH, Associate Director of Public Health Programs, ISDS. 11/08/11.
Data Collection, Management and Surveillance: Using Smartphones in Smart Ways. Marion McNabb, MPH,
Program Manager, DGAP, BUSPH, Christopher Gill, MD, MS, Associate Professor, BUSPH, Laura
Khurana, BUSPH. 11/10/11.
Secrets of My Success (and Failures): Productive Practitioner-Researcher Collaboration. Joe Gibson, MPH,
PHD, Director of Epidemiology, Marion County Public Health Department, Arthur Davidson, MD,
MPH, Director of Public Health and Informatics, Denver Health. 12/16/11.
2010: Archived 2010 may be found here: http://www.syndromic.org/webinars/archives/2010
Distribute Project Overview and Welcome. Charlie Ishikawa, ISDS, 1/2010.
ISDS/CDC MU and Syndromic Surveillance. Taha Kass-Hout, CDC, 1/14/2010.
Distribute Descriptive Data Project Review. Anne Gifford, ISDS. 2/18/2010.
Meaningful Use: What it is and why it matters. Charlie Ishikawa, ISDS, 3/5/2010.
St. Louis Metro Region Walk-Through. Anne Gifford, ISDS. 3/12/2010.
Overview and Public Health Surveillance Utility of Poison Center Data. Jonathan Colvin, Drug and Poison
Information Center; Bill Storm, Ohio Department of Health; and Amy Ising, University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill. 3/25/2010.
Integration of reported and syndromic disease system information. Aaron Kite-Powell, MS, Florida
Department of Health, 3/29/2010.
Measures for Site-to-Site Comparison of Distribute Data: a standardized ratio. Howard Burkom, PhD, Johns
Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, 4/1/2010.
GOC Webinar on the Global Epidemiology of Enteric Infections. Mark A. Miller, MD, Fogarty International
Center, US National Institutes of Health, 4/6/2010.
April Literature Review: Using GIS for Surveillance. Howard Burkom, PhD, Johns Hopkins University
Applied Physics Laboratory, 4/22/2010.
GOC Webinar: Developing Strategic Learning Capabilities in Regional Disease Surveillance Networks
Louise Gresham, NTI, Global Health and Security Initiative; Marlo Libel, PAHO; Marjorie Pollack,
ProMED, and Beverly Trayner, NTI. 5/17/2010.
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Understanding the Spectrum of Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Data Sources and Their Variation By
Community. Abey Kuruvilla, Ph.D. , University of Wisconsin-Parkside ; Christopher Olola, Ph.D. ,
National Academies of Emergency Dispatch and Todd Stout, FirstWatch. 5/27/2010.
Literature Presentation: "The Severity of Pandemic H1N1 Influenza in the United States. Anne Presanis,
Medical Research Council Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge, UK, 6/24/2010.
Rates of Hospital-Acquired Respiratory Illness in Bangladeshi Tertiary Care Hospitals. Emily Gurley,
7/6/2010.
August Literature Review & Presentation on Seasonal Synchronization of Influenza. Dr. Elena Naumova,
8/26/2010.
DQ Monitoring Activities Walk-Through. Anne Gifford, ISDS, 10/19/2010.
Developing Syndrome Definitions Based On Consensus and Current Use. Don Olson, MPH, ISDS and
Wendy Chapman, PhD, UCSD, 11/18/2010.
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Global Outreach 2010 Goals
12/2009
Global Outreach Committee Members
Comment Submission Form: ONCHIT and
ISDS Members and ISDS Distribute
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3/2010
Community
Distribute PAGE Enrollment Form
4/2010
ISDS Distribute Community
Distribute Spring 2010 CoP Meeting
4/2010
ISDS Distribute Community
ISDS Members and ISDS Distribute
ISDS Preliminary Recommendations for SS 10/2010
Community
Comment Form: ISDS Provisional Recs for
ISDS Members and ISDS Distribute
MU Stage 1
11/2010
Community
ISDS Data Quality
2/2011
ISDS Distribute Community
ISDS Members and ISDS Distribute
Textual HER Data for Meaningful Use
3/2011
Community
Survey of Topics of Interest
4/2011
ISDS Members
ISDS General Member Survey
11/2011
ISDS Members
ISDS Research Committee – Member
ISDS Products; 1/28/13
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Meaningful Use Survey: Potential Uses
of Public Health Syndromic Surveillance
Data
11/2011-12/2011 ISDS Community of Practice
PHIN Messaging Guide for Syndromic
Surveillance Evaluation
5/2012
US Public Health Departments
5/2012
ISDS Research Committee
5/2012
ISDS Members and Community of Practice
7/2012
ISDS Members and Community of Practice
Office (PHSIPO) Strategic Plan
8/2012
ISDS Members and Community of Practice
R Software Survey
8/2012
ISDS Members and Community of Practice
Research Committee “Sandbox for
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Distribute Data for Research”
ISDS Revised Guidelines for Syndromic
Surveillance Using Inpatient and
Ambulatory Clinical Care EHR Data:
Stakeholder Feedback
Using Social Media Data for Disease
Surveillance
ISDS Comments on Draft Public Health
Surveillance and Informatics Program
Canadian Public Health Surveillance
ISDS Canada Committee Survey
8/2012
Workforce
9/2012
ISDS Community of Practice
ISDS Pre-Conference Workshop Topics
of Interest Survey
Influenza Surveillance Coordinator
Survey
ISDS Products; 1/28/13
Influenza Surveillance Coordinators in New
11/2012
England
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