Research: Surveillance
This project ended on September 29, 2012.
Project Title
Public Health Surveillance Systems
Principal Investigators
- Anna Waller, ScD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Dept of Emergency Medicine
- Pia MacDonald, PhD, MPH, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Dept of Epidemiology and NC Institute for Public Health, NC Center for Public Health Preparedness
NC Division of Public Health Liaison
- Aaron Fleischauer, PhD, MPH, CDC Career Epi Field Officer assigned to NC Division of Public Health
Research Question
How can North Carolina’s surveillance systems be improved to enhance public health preparedness?
Goal
To systematically assess the performance of timely, electronic public health surveillance systems in North Carolina and, based on the assessments, develop, implement and analyze interventions for system performance improvement.
Aims (Year 1)
- Assess surveillance needs and uses to inform the development of interventions to improve the role of surveillance in public health preparedness and response (PHPR) in North Carolina.
- Examine the system capacity, processes, outputs and outcomes of North Carolina Disease Event Tracking and Epidemiologic Collection Tool (NC DETECT) to develop system interventions to improve NC DETECT functionality for PHPR.
Publications, Presentations & Research Briefs
- NCPERRC bibliographies
- Research Brief:
Having the cake and eating it too: Improved surveillance outcomes and decreased costs associated with electronic reportable disease surveillance system in North Carolina, 2010 - Research Brief:
Electronic laboratory reporting improves surveillance processing at local and state health departments
- Research Brief:
Surveillance Systems Summary - Research Brief:
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 - Research Brief:
Preparedness Capacity Assessment Survey: Comparing Preparedness in 2010 and 2011 (Available in late February 2012) - Research Brief:
Building Capacity to Ensure Capability: Alignment of the Preparedness Capacity Assessment Survey to Measure Preparedness Capabilities (Available in late February 2012)