CONFERENCES & MEETINGS
TRACKS 2006: Implementing the Tracking Network
Atlanta, GA - August 9-11, 2006
Presentations
Wednesday, August 9
Opening Plenary Session (Network Sustainability Track)
- Welcome Remarks [PDF, 456 Kb]
- Environmental Health Tracking: From Vision to Data to Action [PDF, 4.4 Mb]
- Implementing a National Network: The EPA Exchange Network Experience [PDF, 260 Kb]
Tracking Network 101: What You’ve Wanted to Know, but Have Been Afraid to Ask (Panel Discussion) (Technology Track)
- Environmental Public Health Tracking Network 101: Overview [PDF, 900 Kb]
- Tracking Network 101: What You've Wanted to Know, but Have Been Afraid to Ask or Did Not Know Who or How to Ask [PDF, 3.2 Mb]
Empowering Communities with Knowledge (Collaboration/Diversity/Coordination Track)
- Development and Visualization of Community Vulnerability Indicators for Tracking [PDF, 1.4 Mb]
- Empowering Communities with Knowledge: A Community Based Perspective on Vulnerability Indicators using Participatory Action Research [PDF, 1.6 Mb]
- Environmental Health Data Needs for Identifying Environmentally Burdened Communities [PDF, 2.4 Mb]
Tracking Drinking Water Contaminants and Health Outcomes I (Network Content Track)
- Approaches for Developing Measures of Exposure to Contaminants in Drinking Water [PDF, 482 Kb]
- Assessment of Water System Complexity and Availability of Water Quality Data [PDF, 203 Kb]
- U.S. Geological Survey’s Data, Knowledge and Models to Help Build an Environmental Public Health Tracking Network [PDF, 4.7 Mb]
International Plenary Session (Network Sustainability Track)
- Environmental Public Health Indicators and Health-Environment Information System: Experiences from Europe [PDF, 3.5 Mb]
- Developments in Health and Environment Tracking in Canada [PDF, 677 Kb]
- Different Ways Towards the Same Goal: The Global Initiative on Children's Environmental Health Indicators [PDF, 855 Kb]
PHIN Components: How Do They Relate to the Tracking Network? (Technology Track)
- The Public Health Information Network Messaging System [PDF, 394 Kb]
- PHIN Architecture [PDF, 829 Kb]
- Public Health Directory (PHINDIR) and Role-Based Authorization [PDF, 1.1 Mb]
- PHIN Message and Vocabulary Specifications [PDF, 370 Kb]
From Grassroots to a Nationwide Tracking Network (Network Sustainability Track)
- Advancing Environmental Public Health Tracking: A Five Year Follow-Up Study [PDF, 691 Kb]
- From Patchwork to Network [PDF, 464 Kb]
- Community Health Status Indicators Project [PDF, 1.2 Mb]
Tracking Drinking Water Contaminants and Health Outcomes II (Network Content Track)
- National Synthesis - A Critical Component of National Assessments: Contaminants in the Nation's Drinking-Water Supply Wells [PDF, 858 Kb]
- Linkage of Drinking Water Contaminant and Birth Outcome Data in New York State [PDF, 4.5 Mb]
- Total Trihalomethanes in Drinking Water and Low Birth Weight [PDF, 2.5 Mb]
- Modeling the Probability of Arsenic in Groundwater in New England as a Tool for Exposure Assessment [PDF, 3.9 Mb]
Thursday, August 10
Plenary Session (Network Sustainability Track)
- What Makes an Indicator Actionable? [PDF, 1.1 Mb]
Lessons for Network Implementation (Technology Track)
- Interoperability Pilot [PDF, 1.8 Mb]
- Establishing the UTAH EPHT Node [PDF, 469 Kb]
- Service Oriented Architecture: A Practical Approach to Data Exchange, Integration, and Linkage for Environmental Public Health Tracking Network [PDF, 34 Mb]
- How Program Evaluation Helped Us Plan EPHT in Oregon and How We Intend to Use it in the Implementation Phase [PDF, 691 Kb]
- Use of Scientific Review Board to Promote the Data Use and Exchange on the Environmental Public Health Tracking Network [PDF, 189 Kb]
- Missouri’s Local Emergency and Environmental Public Health Initiative: A Successful Collaboration [PDF, 11.2 Mb]
Tracking Emerging Environmental Diseases I (Network Content Track)
- Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE): Challenges Tracking a Complex, Multi-Systemic Chronic Disease [PDF, 800 Kb]
- Developing EPHT Modules for Neurodegenerative Diseases: Opportunities and Challenges [PDF, 274 Kb]
- The Case for Carbon Monoxide Surveillance [PDF, 1.1 Mb]
Everything Your Mother Never Told You About Metadata (Panel Discussion) (Technology Track)
- Everything Your Mother Never Told You About Metadata [PDF, 986 Kb]
Update on the Rapid Inquiry Facility as a Geographic Information System Based Analytical Tool for Environmental Public Health Tracking (Panel Discussion) (Technology Track)
- Update: Rapid Inquiry Facility (RIF) in Utah [PDF, 9.9 Mb]
- Beta Testing the RIF for Selected Birth Defects in Florida [PDF, 528 Kb]
- Rapid Inquiry Facility (RIF) Developments [PDF, 934 Kb]
Policy and Tracking: Understanding the Climate (Collaboration/Diversity/Coordination Track)
- Legal Issues and Environmental Public Health Tracking: Lessons from Montana [PDF, 275 Kb]
- Overview of Data Access and Privacy Policies Relevant to the Environmental Public Health Tracking Network [PDF, 459 Kb]
- Oregon’s View of Legal Issues and Challenges in EPHT Implementation [PDF, 95 Kb]
Tracking Emerging Environmental Diseases II (Network Content Track)
- Environmental Public Health Tracking: Developmental Disabilities and PCB Exposure [PDF, 7.6 Mb]
- The Case for Pesticide Surveillance in a National EPHT Network [PDF, 320 Kb]
Data Management and Access – Options and Challenges (Technology Track)
- Naming Conventions [PDF, 2.8 Mb]
- Using Interactive Web Mappers to Improve Public Health in Missouri [PDF, 4 Mb]
Using Existing Data in Environmental Health Tracking (Network Content Track)
- Accessing Vital Statistics Data [PDF, 536 Kb]
- Hospital Discharge Data: Tips, Tools and Resources Available for Use in Tracking
- Accessing and Using Existing Data for Public Health: Traditional and Non-traditional Sources [PDF, 1.4 Mb]
Methodologies in Environmental Health Tracking (Network Content Track)
- Confounding and Interaction in Aggregate-Level Studies: A Practical Guide [PDF, 292 Kb]
- Considering the Knowledge Base in Selecting Targets and Methods for Environmental Public Health Tracking
- Surveillance of Childhood Cancer: Trends, Clusters and Other Concerns [PDF, 1 Mb]
- Health and Environment Linked for Information Exchange (HELIX)-Atlanta: A CDC-NASA Joint Environmental Public Health Tracking Collaborative Project [PDF, 1.6 Mb]
Collaborating with Environmental Justice Organizations in EPHT (Panel Discussion) (Collaboration/Diversity/Coordination Track)
Friday, August 11
Technology Tools for Tracking (Technology Track)
- SOVAT: An OLAP/GIS System for Environmental Health Tracking [PDF, 2 Mb]
- Developing Tools for Estimating Hazard Exposures Related to Public Health [PDF, 4.9 Mb]
- County Lung Cancer Mortality: A Decision Tree Model for Control and Prevention [PDF, 714 Kb]
Biomonitoring in the Tracking Network: Issues, Actions, and Interventions (Network Content Track)
- Western Tracking and Biomonitoring Collaboration: Results and Recommendations [PDF, 1.4 Mb]
- Biomonitoring Data Sources and Applications in the New Mexico Tracking Program [PDF, 1 Mb]
- Biomonitoring In Action: Lead, Mercury, Cadmium and Pesticide Exposure in New York City Adults
- Biomonitoring of Metals in Children’s Blood Using Existing Blood Lead Specimens [PDF, 1.3 Mb]
Air Monitoring and Air Quality Modeling to Assess Exposure and Health Risk (Network Content Track)
- Building EPHT Network Content for Air Quality: Lessons from PHASE [PDF, 18.7 Mb]
- Lessons Learned through Linkage Studies of Incident Cancers and Environmental Hazards in New Jersey [PDF, 609 Kb]
- Indoor Air Quality Testing and Pediatric Asthma Surveillance in Massachusetts Public Schools [PDF, 879 Kb]
- Spatial Analytic Modeling of the Health Effects of Traffic Emissions [PDF, 4.4 Mb]
Closing Plenary Session (Network Sustainability Track)
- A Look into the Future
