Research Briefs
NCPERRC researchers are committed to promptly sharing the results of their work with research collaborators and others. (See more about our pledge.) Research Briefs are short descriptions of our research findings and the implications for practice for an audience of public health practitioners in North Carolina and nationwide. Our goal is to prepare the Research Brief when we have preliminary findings. We think the Research Brief is an important activity because publication in peer-reviewed journals takes many months and generally the articles are intended for an academic rather than practice audience.
Here are the Research Briefs prepared by each NCPERRC project:
Accreditation and Public Health Preparedness
- Local Health Department Preparedness Capacities Survey: Introduction & Preliminary Results
- H1N1 After Action Review: Local Health Departments in North Carolina
- Local Public Health Department Accreditation Associated with Preparedness Response
- Preparedness Capacity Survey Custom Reports: Usage by Local Health Departments
- Building Capacity to Ensure Capability: Alignment of the Preparedness Capacity Assessment Survey to Measure Preparedness Capabilities (Coming soon)
Public Health Surveillance Systems
- Having the cake and eating it too: Improved surveillance outcomes and decreased costs associated with electronic reportable disease surveillance system in North Carolina, 2010
- Electronic laboratory reporting improves surveillance processing at local and state health departments
- Evaluation of Syndromic Surveillance Data Use for Communicable Disease Control Practice in North Carolina, 2009; Summary of Report of Findings to North Carolina Division of Public Health
- Local Health Department Electronic Disease Surveillance: Best Practices and Costs, North Carolina, 2010
- Local Surveillance Practice and Implications for Public Health Accreditation: The North Carolina Example
Regionalization of Public Health Preparedness Workforce Infrastructure
- Support and Services Provided by Public Health Regional Surveillance Teams (PHRSTs) to Local Health Departments in North Carolina
- Addressing Public Health Issues with Social Network Analysis
- How the Hospital-Based Public Health Epidemiologist Program Benefits Local Health Departments
- Services Provided by Regional Preparedness and Response Teams in North Carolina and Virginia
- Vulnerable & At-Risk Populations Resource Guide: Introducing a new tool for preparedness planning
Engineering the North Carolina Health Alert Network
- Utilizing systems engineering models to enhance collaboration and vaccination clinic efficiency
- Analyzing North Carolina’s Health Alert Network
- Simulating a public health emergency: A case study of the 2004 North Carolina State Fair E. Coli O157 outbreak