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June 2, 2008
Recommendations for Exploratory Spatiotemporal Analysis and Cartographic Presentation of Environmental Hazard, Exposure and Health Outcome Data for the CDC Environmental Public Health Tracking Network
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Speaker:
Linda Williams-Pickle, Ph.D., Principal and Chief Statistician, StatNet Consulting, LLC
Description: In this webinar, Linda Pickle will review general principles of visualization design and their past application to the design of disease atlases and web sites for dissemination of cancer statistics. Based on this theoretical foundation and practical experience, recommendations are given for the design of a public web portal for the CDC Environmental Public Health Tracking Network. These recommendations are illustrated by specific designs for birth defects rates, blood lead levels among children and domestic well water quality.
Recommendations for Exploratory Spatiotemporal Analysis and Cartographic Presentation of Environmental Hazard, Exposure and Health Outcome Data for the CDC Environmental Public Health Tracking Network [external link]
NOTE: The audio for the accompanying slides begins at the one minute mark.
April 28, 2008
Face-to-Face: A State-Local Dialogue on Environmental Public Health Tracking
- Speakers:
Abraham Kulungara, BDS, MPH, Analyst, Environmental Health; Association of State and Territorial Health Officials
Grace Ibanga, MPH, Program Assistant, Environmental Health; National Association of County & City Health Officials
Nausheen Saeed, Program Associate, Environmental Health; National Association of County & City Health Officials
Description: The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) and the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) sponsored facilitated discussions in many Tracking-funded states to enhance collaboration between state and local health departments and ensure inclusion of local public health perspectives about the development of the National Environmental Public Health Tracking Network. These discussions opened the lines of communication among environmental health directors, identified needs and priorities for the EPHT program, and developed strategies to enhance effective communication and collaboration among state health agencies and local health departments on EPHT projects.
Representatives from ASTHO and NACCHO will share the issues and ideas arising from these discussions. You will gain insight as to how both the local and state health departments are working together to strengthen environmental public health tracking.
ASTHO NACCHO: Joint Presentation on EPHT Facilitated Discussions [PDF, 540 KB]
March 24, 2008
- The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in collaboration with CDC’s Environmental Public Health Tracking Program, has released a report on the occurrence of eleven priority water-quality constituents of possible health concern in domestic wells located in 16 states across the U.S. For the project, measures of water-quality, water use, and other geospatial data (such as for land use and hydrogeology) are compiled, mapped and tabulated for each of the 16 states that are participating in the Tracking Program.
Gary Rowe Ph.D., Regional Coordinator for NAWQA (National Water-Quality Assessment Program) and co-author, will provide an overview of the recently released report “Summary of Selected U.S. Geological Survey Data on Domestic Well Water Quality for the Centers for Disease Control’s National Environmental Public Health Tracking Program," during the March 24, 2008 webinar. The study is available online at: http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2007/5213/. Also available online are individual State summaries that include summary tables, graphs, and maps of the water-quality data done for each state.
Summary of Selected USGS Data on Domestic Well Water Quality for the CDC-EPHT Program [PDF, 3199 KB]
Gary L. Rowe Jr., Ph.D., Regional Coordinator for NAWQA, Denver, Colorado
Co-Presenters: Janet Carter, Roy Bartholomay
December 3, 2007
Utilizing Existing State Web Based Query Systems for a Tracking Portal
- Utah’s Indicator-Based Information System for Public Health (IBIS-PH) [PDF,
2195 KB]
Lois Haggard, Utah Department of Health - IBIS-PH as an EPHTN Portal Component [PDF,
189 KB]
Sam LeFevre, Utah Department of Health
October 22, 2007
Maryland Cancer Prevention, Education, Screening and Treatment Program (CPEST)
- Maryland Cancer Prevention, Education, Screening and Treatment Program (CPEST) Mapper Handout [DOC,
45 KB]
- Maryland Cancer Prevention, Education, Screening and Treatment Program (CPEST) Mapper; GIS Mapping Application for Cancer Screening Data in Maryland [PDF,
1273 KB]
Rashid Malik, Maryland EPHT GIS Analyst, Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Baltimore (DHMH)
Carolyn Poppell, MS, Epidemiologist, DHMH Center for Cancer Surveillance and Control and University of Maryland, Baltimore
Parveeza Shaikh, Maryland EPHT Internet Programmer, DHMH
Diane M. Dwyer, MD, Medical Director, Center for Cancer Surveillance and Control, DHMH
Clifford S. Mitchell, MS, MD, MPH, Maryland EPHT PI, DHMH
John T. Braggio, PhD, MPH, Maryland EPHT Coordinator, DHMH.
February 26, 2007
Building Environmental Health Capacity: An Overview of CDC's Regional Academic Environmental Public Health Centers
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CDC’s Environmental Health Revitalization Strategy
[PDF, 173 KB]
Daneen Farrow Collier, Public Health Advisor, Environmental Health Services Branch, Division of Emergency and Environmental Health Services, National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Capacity: The Building Blocks of Public Health
[PDF, 421 KB]
Beth Resnick, MPH, Research Associate, Northeast Regional Academic Center Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University -
Southeast
Regional Academic Center for Environmental Public Health (SE-RAC)
[PDF, 123 KB]
Tom Struzick, MSW/ACSW, LCSW; MEd, Project Director, Southeast Regional Academic Center for Environmental Public Health, University of Alabama, Birmingham School of Public Health - Great Lakes Center of Excellence
in Environmental Health
[PDF, 2167 KB]
Daniel Hryhorczuk, MD, MPH, Director, and Leslie Nickels, Program Director for Continuing Education and Outreach, Regional Academic Center for Environmental Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health - Case Study: Native Americans
[PDF, 288 KB]
David Dyjack, PhD, Principal Investigator, Southwest Regional Academic Center for Environmental Public Health, Loma Linda University School of Public Health - NW/Plains States NW/Plains States
[PDF, 794 KB]
Carl Osaki, RS, MSPH, Principal Investigator, Northwest Regional Academic Center for Environmental Public Health, University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine
January 31, 2007
The Global Health Supercourse: Opportunities for Education and Training for the Environmental Public Health Tracking Network
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Supercourse and Tracking Abstract [PDF, 83 KB]
Ronald LaPorte, Ph.D., Mita Lovalekar, M.D, Evelyn Talbott, Dr.PH, Jeanne Zborowski, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, for the UPACE-EPHT (Pittsburgh) Academic Partner -
Supercourse:
Epidemiology, the Internet, and Global Health Presentation [PDF,
2432 KB]
Ronald E. LaPorte, Ph.D., Director, Disease Monitoring and Telecommunications, WHO Collaborating Centre, Professor of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, Mita Lovalekar, Ph.D Candidate, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health
November 27, 2006
- Desirable
Characteristics and Current Status of State Web-based Data Query
Systems [PDF,
95 KB]
Daniel J. Friedman, Ph.D., Population and Public Health Information Services, R. Gibson Parrish, M.D., Population and Public Health Information Services
September 25, 2006
- Testing for Lead
Poisoning: Are we screening the right kids? City of Atlanta 2005 [PDF,
997 KB]
Ambarish Vaidyanathan, MSEnvE, TKCIS Management Services, Environmental Health Tracking Branch, Division of Environmental Hazards and Health Effects, National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Forrest Staley, MUP, MPHc, Program Director, Georgia Lead Poisoning Prevention Programs
July 24, 2006
- Community
Health Status Indicators Project: A Nationwide Approach to
Developing Community Health Profiles [PDF,
368 KB]
Marilyn Metzler, Social Determinants of Health Activity, Division of Adult and Community Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention & Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
June 26, 2006
Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
- Carbon Monoxide and
Environmental Public Health Tracking [PDF,
762 KB]
Judith Graber, M.S., Epidemiologist/Project Coordinator, Maine Environmental Public Health Tracking Program - Preventing Carbon Monoxide
Poisoning: Tracking the Impact of Legislative and Regulatory Changes
in New York City [PDF, 86 KB]
Katie Wheeler, Daniel Kass, Robert Hoffman, Jessica Leighton, NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH); Andrea Allocca, Michael Vecchi, Fire Department of New York City (FDNY) - Comparison of Three Carbon
Monoxide Databases in Connecticut [PDF,
186 KB]
Brian Toal, M.S.P.H., Patricia Miskell, M.P.H., Environmental & Occupational Health Assessment Program, Connecticut Department of Public Health
March 27, 2006
- Probabilistic Record
Matching with Link Plus [PDF, 196 KB]
Tom Rawson, Division of Cancer Prevention, CDC
February 27, 2006
- Cartographic Conventions for
Symbology and Color - Applications to Health Statistics Mapping
[PDF, 1.6 MB]
Robert M. Edsall, Ph.D., Department of Geography, Arizona State University
January 23, 2006
- Evaluation That Get's
Results: An Overview of CDC's Evaluation Framework
[PDF, 900 KB]
Thomas Chapel, M.A., M.B.A., Senior Health Scientist, Office of the Director, Office of Strategy and Innovation, CDC
November 28, 2005
Geographic Information System for Breast Cancer Studies on Long Island
- Long Island Geographic
Information System [PDF, 939 KB]
Deborah M. Winn, Ph.D., Chief, Clinical and Genetic Epidemiology Research Branch, National Institute of Health
November 4, 2005
Risk Analysis Using Small Area Methods
- Background on Development of
the Rapid Inquiry Facility (RIF) Tool
[PDF, 608 KB]
Lars Jarup, M.D., Ph.D., M.Sc., Imperial College of London - Demonstration of the RIF Tool
[PDF, 368 KB]
Lars Jarup, M.D., Ph.D., M.Sc., Linda Beale, Ph.D., Damian Tirado, Peter Hambly, Susan Hodgson, Juan Jose Abellan-Andres, Imperial College of London - Utah Environmental Public
Health Tracking Program RIF [PDF, 3.8 MB]
Lars Jarup, M.D., Ph.D., M.Sc., Linda Beale, Ph.D., Damian Tirado, Imperial College of London; Wayne Ball, Ph.D., Sam LeFevre, D.Sc., Environmental Epidemiology Program, Utah Department of Health
September 26, 2005
Arsenic in Drinking Water
- Health Effects and
Current Issues [PDF, 800 KB]
Craig Steinmaus, M.D., M.P.H., University of California, Berkeley - Problems with Low Exposure
Studies [PDF, 448 KB]
Len Flowers, New Mexico Department of Health
August 22, 2005
- Improving the Reliability of
Exposure Tracking by Merging Exposure Models with Biomonitoring Data
[PDF, 2.5 MB]
Thomas E. McKone, University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
July 25, 2005
- The Public Health Information
Network: An Update on Recent Activities
[PDF, 338 KB]
Sunanda R. McGarvey, National Center of Public Health Informatics, CDC
May 23, 2005
Environmental Public Health Tracking of Pesticides Information
- Pesticide Tracking in New
York City: Early Reports, a Proposed Birth Outcomes Study, and Using
Tracking to Guide Legislation [PDF, 386
KB]
Wendy McKelvey, Ph.D., Epidemiologist, Department of Health & Mental Hygiene, Bureau of Environmental Disease Prevention, New York City - Legislative Initiatives and
NYC’s Pesticide Tracking Effort [PDF, 944
KB]
Dan Kass, M.S.P.H., EPHT Director, Department of Health & Mental Hygiene, Bureau of Environmental Disease Prevention, New York City - Residential Insecticide
Exposure during Pregnancy among African American and Dominican Mothers
and Newborns from New York City [PDF, 706
KB]
Robin Whyatt, Dr.PH., Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Health Science, Columbia University - Incorporating
Environmental Public Health Indicators into Cumulative Risk Scores to
Track the Disparate Burden of Pesticide Exposure in Wisconsin
[PDF, 1.4 MB]
Jessica Schumacher, Epidemiologist, Bureau of Environmental and Occupational Health, Wisconsin Division of Public Health
March 28, 2005
Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and Implications for Public Health Surveillance
- Public Health Surveillance
and FERPA [PDF, 92 KB]
Beverly Dozier-Peeples, Privacy Rule Coordinator, Office of the Chief Science Officer, CDC - FERPA and Student Health
Data: Lessons Learned [PDF, 276 KB]
Glen Patrick, Epidemiologist, Office of Environmental Health Assessments, Washington State Department of Health - Impact of FERPA on
Childhood Developmental Disabilities Tracking: One State’s Experience
[PDF, 556 KB]
Elaine Krueger, Director, Environmental Toxicology Program, Center for Environmental Health, Massachusetts Department of Public Health
February 28, 2005
Environmental Public Health Tracking Work in Birth Defects
- HELIX-Atlanta Birth
Defects Team: Air Pollution and Congenital Heart Defects in Atlanta
[PDF, 2 MB]
Matt Strickland, National Center for Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, CDC - Oklahoma Public Health
Environmental Tracking System: Linking Oral/Facial Clefts and
Environmental Contaminants in Oklahoma (1994-2002)
[PDF, 218 KB]
Kay Pearson, Principal Investigator, and Elizabeth Kruger, Epidemiologist/Program Coordinator, Oklahoma Public Health Environmental Tracking System, Oklahoma State Department of Public Health
January 24, 2005
Cancer Measures for Tracking: Methods, Data Access & Lessons Learned
- Three Approaches to
Linking Childhood Cancer and the Environment
[PDF, 827 KB]
Marni Bekkedal, Wisconsin Environmental Public Health Tracking - Childhood Cancer Tracking
Initiative in Massachusetts: Developing a New Electronic Tool
[PDF, 200 KB]
Cathy Gallagher, Community Assessment Program (CAP), Center for Environmental Health (CEH), Massachusetts Department of Public Health (MDPH) - Hill Air Force Base as a
Case Study for Linking Cancer Data, Exposure Data and Residential
Tenure Data [PDF, 1.3 MB]
Sam LeFevre, Environmental Epidemiology Program, Office of Epidemiology, Utah Department of Health
December 13, 2004
Air Quality Measures for Tracking: Lessons Learned
- Exploring the Relationship
between Traffic-Related Pollutants, Adverse Birth Outcomes, and Asthma
[PDF, 1.5 MB]
Paul English, Ph.D., M.P.H., Principal Investigator, California Environmental Health Tracking Program - Assessing Ozone and PM2.5
Air Quality Data for Use with Asthma and Cardiovascular Disease Data
[PDF, 525 KB]
Thomas Talbot, New York State Department of Health - Air Pollutant Data for Linking
Studies [PDF, 3.7 MB]
New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services