Overview
CDC’s Environmental Public Health Tracking Program hosted a Workshop October 13-15, 2004 to provide an opportunity for Environmental Public Health Tracking Program grantees to meet face to face to discuss their pertinent program issues as well as future activities. The workshop was designed to provide a forum in which grantees can share their lessons learned with each other and CDC, learn new skills through trainings that focus on current grantee needs, share information on best practices to assist in designing and implementing EPHT activities, and provide expectations and direction for the future of the program.
Agenda
Wednesday - October 13, 2004
Time | Program |
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8:00 am – 8:10 am | Welcome & Opening Remarks Judith Qualters, PhD Chief, Environmental Health Tracking Branch, CDC [PDF, 98 Kb] |
8:10 am – 10:00 am | Opening Plenary Environmental Public Health Tracking: Conception to Implementation In September 2000, the Environmental Health Tracking Project Team at Johns Hopkins University with the support of the PEW Environmental Health Commission released “America’s Environmental Health Gap: Why the Country Needs a Nationwide Health Tracking Network.” This report provided insight into what a future Environmental Public Health Tracking Network might look like as well as to what types of questions it may be able to assist in answering. In the four years following the publication of this report, great strides have been made towards building the Nationwide Environmental Public Health Tracking Network. This opening panel will highlight the progress made, provide a strong focus as to what we need to accomplish in moving towards implementation of the network, and examine how this workshop can assist us in identifying our next steps. Speakers:
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10:00 am – 10:15 am | Morning Break |
10:15 am – 11:00 am |
Plenary Sessions 2 Report out: Centers of Excellence The Centers of Excellence have been performing a number of activities with their partner states/localities in many areas, including but not limited to program planning and implementation, methods development, and epidemiologic research. The Centers of Excellence have worked closely with their state and local partners to examine what an EPHT network may look like, what types of tools or methodologies it may need to include, as well as what types of questions can be uniquely answered by such a surveillance system. This strong collaboration between academia and public health practice in EPHT can help us to examine areas of commonality across the nation. Speakers:
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11:00 am – 11:45 am | Plenary Session 3 Report out: Standards and Network Development Workgroup The Standards and Network Development (SND) Workgroup was established to ensure collaboration among CDC, states, and other partners in the development of the Environmental Public Health Tracking Network. All grantees have designated members in the SND. The work of the SND has focused on developing common definitions, identifying standards for documenting data quality, establishing approaches for accessing data, addressing needs for geographic encoding of data, and developing a common conceptual view of the architecture of the network overall. This plenary provides an opportunity for grantees to become familiar with the SND activities that will have an effect on all network participants. At the end of this session, grantees will better understand the conceptual design, development tools, and standards for implementing the EPHTN. Speakers:
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11:45 am – 1:00 pm | Lunch (on your own) |
1:00 pm – 2:45 pm | Discussion Session 1 Enhancing Future Program Activities I: Needs, Barriers, and Successes of EPHT Partners As we move forward in defining the future of Environmental Public Health Tracking we experience a variety of questions, opportunities, concerns, barriers and successes. All of these elements are a natural part of the creation of a new program and help us to identify how to develop new activities, revise existing activities and enhance our communications. Our experiences during the first two years of this program can help us to examine partner needs and to work together in continuing to develop our efforts to strengthen and maintain EPHT at the local, state, and federal levels and within academia. This session will explore questions that are asked of us from within our state and local health departments, our environmental counterparts, our policy makers, and our communities. Presenters will share what has been done to address these questions thus far, and will hypothesize about what is needed to maintain and enhance our existing activities. In addition, this session will provide time for interactive roundtable discussions between participants to identify areas of commonalities and differences in experiences encountered during the first years of funding. Speakers:
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2:45 pm – 3:00 pm | Afternoon Break |
3:00 pm – 4:45 pm | Discussion Session 2 Enhancing Future Program Activities II: Designing our future to generate and share early successes- How can indicators help? This session follows up on discussions in Enhancing Future Program Activities I. The session is designed to examine what we can do to generate and define early successes. It has been noted in multiple forums that indicators may offer a mechanism through which we can structure our conversations about identifying and developing a standard set of measures for a nationwide EPHT network; provide a useful means for communicating with multiple audiences unfamiliar with scientific terminology; and help us in generating and documenting early successes. Presenters will provide us with information on the potential use and role of indicators in EPHT and give updates on the use of existing and newly developed indicators within states/localities. The end of the session will include time for a facilitated discussion with panelists and audience members to discuss next steps for indicators relevant to EPHT and their potential role in addressing comments, questions, or concerns noted in Enhancing Future Program Activities I. Speakers:
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5:00 pm – 6:00 pm | Special sessions
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6:00 pm – 7:30 pm | Poster Session Reception (Light refreshments provided) |
Thursday - October 14, 2004
Time | Program |
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8:30 am – 9:30 am | Opening plenary Key Themes & Messages from October 13th: A report from the raconteurs A number of participants with different backgrounds and interest in EPHT have been selected as the workshop “raconteurs.” These individuals are responsible for sitting in sessions with an “eye and ear” for themes arising from workshop sessions, roundtables, other facilitated discussions, and questions/answer sessions. The raconteurs will share key issues, needs, barriers and successes that were expressed by workshop participants on October 13th during this plenary session. Additionally, they will synthesize this information and share their thoughts/ideas as to how these findings can be utilized in moving EPHT into the future. |
9:30 am – 9:45 am | Morning Break |
9:45 am – 11:45 am | Concurrent Session I
Discussion 1: Tracking & Drinking Water: Issues, Approaches & Opportunities for Collaboration Speakers:
Discussion 2: Network Architecture Concepts Discussion 3: Targeting the Policy Audience Discussion 4: Environmental Hazard Roundtables: Approaches, Challenges, Successes |
11:45 am – 1:00 pm | Lunch (on your own) |
1:00 pm – 2:45 pm | Concurrent Session II
Discussion 1: Mechanisms for Documenting and Sharing Data Speakers:
Discussion 2: Spatial Data Linkages: Standards, Opportunities, & Challenges Speakers:
Discussion 3: Working Effectively with Stakeholders: Approaches to Program Planning Speakers:
Discussion 4: Health Effects Roundtables: Approaches, Challenges, Successes |
2:45 pm – 3:00 pm | Afternoon Break |
3:00 pm – 6:00 pm | Concurrent Session III: Trainings
Discussion 1: Building Logical Data Models Speakers:
Discussion 2: Small Area Analysis and Clustering Techniques for use in EPHT Discussion 3: Issues and Challenges of Risk Communication and Public Participation in the Context of EPHT Speaker:
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Friday - October 15, 2004
Time | Program |
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8:00 am – 8:30 am | Continental Breakfast |
8:30 am – 10:00 am | Centers of Excellence Meeting
with Partner States/Localities
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10:00 am – 10:30 am | Morning Break |
10:30 am – 10:50 am | Plenary Session 1 Report out: Program Marketing and Outreach Workgroup The Program Marketing and Outreach (PMO) Workgroup supports CDC and its grantees in development and implementation of program outreach and marketing plans. PMO develops appropriate education and outreach materials that clarify, emphasize, and support the goals, objectives, and timely promotion of the national EPHT effort. PMO has kicked off its outreach strategy plan to ensure that clear concise messages about the program are being made available to a variety of key audiences. The PMO has established subgroup teams to refine key program messages, profile and prioritize target audiences, tailor messages for each target audience, and define channels for reaching the target audiences. The PMO workgroup is also developing evaluation criteria to determine how well the outreach activities are working. This plenary provides an opportunity for grantees to become familiar with activities that will support their future work. At the end of this session, grantees will better understand the outreach activities PMO has planned and conducted to (1) raise interest in and awareness of the National EPHT Program, (2) engage community members in discussion of EPHT information, and (3) provide opportunities for the public to become involved in the program planning process. Speaker:
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10:50 am – 12:30 pm | Closing Plenary Key Workshop Themes and Considerations for our Future: Implementing the Nationwide EPHT Network During the closing plenary we will hear key messages from the workshop raconteurs. This will include key issues, needs, barriers and successes that were expressed by workshop participants on October 14th as well as a synthesis of the important highlights of the entire workshop. They will continue to share their thoughts/ideas as to what these key messages may mean for building the Nationwide EPHT Network. Judith Qualters, Chief of the Environmental Health Tracking Branch will sum up the workshop with next steps related to building the Nationwide Network. |
Poster Session Abstracts
- A Logical Data Model for
Environmental Public Health Tracking in New York City (New York
City) [PDF, 19 Kb]
- Advancing the
Environmental Public Health Tracking (EPHT) Curriculum (John
Hopkins University) [PDF, 21 Kb]
- Assessing Community
Environmental Health Concerns in Houston, Texas (Houston)
[PDF, 30 Kb]
- Assessing the Needs of the
Montana Public Health Workforce to Participate in Environmental
Public Health Tracking (Montana) [PDF,
19 Kb]
- Assessment of indicators
for use in environmental public health tracking: topics, data
sources, and metrics (University of California, Berkeley)
[PDF, 18 Kb]
- Association Between Ozone
Exposure and Childhood Asthma Hospital Admission in New York City
Metropolitan Area, 1991-2001 (New York City)
[PDF, 18 Kb]
- Comparing Methods of
Linking Asthma Data from a Population-Based Survey with Ozone Data
from Ambient Monitors at the Zip Code Level (California)
[PDF, 20 Kb]
- Developing Environmental
Exposure Profiles for Linking Exposures with Health Effects
(Wisconsin) [PDF, 19 Kb]
- Developing an Online Health
Outcome Report Generation System for Asthma in Wisconsin
(Wisconsin) [PDF, 28 Kb]
- Developing Environmental
Public Health Indicators: Lessons Learned (John Hopkins
University) [PDF, 22 Kb]
- Developing A Methodology to
Co-locate Pesticide Applications And Health Risks in Rural
Maryland: Using Remote Sensing to Create Exposure Risk Factor Maps
(Maryland) [PDF, 21 Kb]
- EPHT Mini-Grants for Building
Environmental Public Health Capacity in Oregon (Oregon)
[PDF, 24 Kb]
- Effective Interagency
Collaboration and the Use of the Computerized Metadata Inventory
Tool (Maryland) [PDF, 10 Kb]
- Environmental Health
Tracking (EPHT) Network Architecture and Principles: A Work in
Progress (Standards and Network Development Workgroup)
[PDF, 42 Kb]
- Environmental Public Health
Tracking: Health and Environment Linked for Information Exchange,
Atlanta (HELIX-Atlanta) [PDF, 16 Kb]
- Epidemiology and Linking of
Oral/Facial Clefts and Environmental Hazards, Oklahoma, 1994-2002
(Oklahoma) [PDF, 18 Kb]
- Examining Geographic and
Temporal Patterns of Cancer Incidence in New Jersey (New Jersey)
[PDF, 21 Kb]
- Exposure Misclassification Due
to Assignment of Unmatched Address Records in New York State (New
York) [PDF, 19 Kb]
- Hospital and particulate
matter data linkages in communities exposed to wildfire smoke
(Montana) [PDF, 17 Kb]
- Integrating the Unknown:
Building Standards-Based Systems in an Unruly World (Washington)
[PDF, 29 Kb]
- Integration of Contaminated
Site and Regulated Release Databases using Geographic Information
Systems (GIS) (New Jersey) [PDF, 22
Kb]
- Involving Tribal and County
Public Health Partners in Environmental Public Health Tracking in
Montana (Montana) [PDF, 19 Kb]
- Linking asthma-related
emergency department visits to ambient air monitoring data for
Environmental Public Health Tracking in Maine (Maine)
[PDF, 22 Kb]
- Linking carbon monoxide
poisonings to power outages using hospital emergency department
data; A feasibility assessment for public health surveillance
(Maine) [PDF, 23 Kb]
- Linking exposure and health
data in a rural state lacking a centralized hospital data
reporting system (Montana) [PDF, 17
Kb]
- Outdoor Ambient Air
Pollution and Uncontrolled Asthma in California (California)
[PDF, 18 Kb]
- Messaging and Security in the
New Mexico EPHT System Prototype (New Mexico)
[PDF, 18 Kb]
- State Capacity to Address
Non-Communicable Disease Clusters: A Web-Based Evaluation (John
Hopkins University) [PDF, 21 Kb]
- Task Force on Cancer Clusters
in New Jersey (New Jersey) [PDF, 17
Kb]
- TEDAS (Texas Emergency
Department Asthma Surveillance) A Prospective and Retrospective
Data Tracking System for Pediatric Emergency Department Asthma
Visits (Houston) [PDF, 11 Kb]
- Tracking Research
Applications: Doctoral Student Fellowship Projects (John Hopkins
University) [PDF, 24 Kb]
- Use of Biomonitoring
Data to Interpret Attributable Exposures in Public Health Tracking
(University of California, Berkeley)
[PDF, 31 Kb]
- Use of CUSUM to Monitor Trends
of Birth Defects in New York State (New York)
[PDF, 19 Kb]
- Use of Linked Data for
Environmental Public Health Surveillance (New York)
[PDF, 19 Kb]
- Use of Vital Statistics and
Hospital Discharge Databases for Tracking Carbon Monoxide
Poisonings and Targeting Interventions (Wisconsin)
[PDF, 19 Kb]
- Using Geographic Information
Systems to Link Environmental Hazard Data with Health Outcome Data
(Florida) [PDF, 442 Kb]
- Using Tailings As Agricultural
Lime in St. Francois County, Missouri: A First Look (Missouri)
[PDF, 60 Kb]
- Using Tracking to Improve Asthma Information (California) [PDF, 23 Kb]