The 2007 conference built on prior conference themes by exploring innovative and non-traditional approaches to using syndromic surveillance data (e.g., non-infectious, environmental, chronic disease, health promotion).
The conference featured plenary sessions and concurrent interactive tracks on five topics.
Conference Track Sessions
Conference Program Committee
Track titles
- Novel Applications: the innovative, non-traditional use of tools or data of public health surveillance in other areas, i.e.:
- Health status of livestock populations
- Longitudinal epidemiologic studies
- Media reports or search words
- Collecting health-related data; leveraging real-time surveillance to support clinical decision support systems
- Automated Data Acquisition and Processing: the process of data gathering, organizing, and processing from data feed to signal
- Analytical Methods: tools for analyzing and interpreting data to assess the state of public health
- Public Health Practice: the use of data and analysis to protect public health and animal health.
- Evaluation and Performance: the assessment of data, analysis tools, systems, and public health practice
2007 ISDS Annual Conference Program Committee
Organizing Chair
Shaun Grannis, Regenstrief Institute
Program Chair
Ken Kleinman, Harvard Medical School
Program Committee Members
Judy Akkina, APHIS/USDA Ctr. for Emerging Issues
Steve Babin, Johns Hopkins APL
John Brownstein, Harvard/Childrens’ Hospital
Wendy Chapman, Pittsburgh
HC Chen, Bio Portal
Jean-Paul Chretien, Walter Reed Army Institute for Research
Cathy Clayton, EPA
Duncan Cooper, Health Protection Agency, UK
David Ebert, Purdue University
Irene Eckstrand, NIH, MIDAS Group
Seth Foldy, Milwaukee Public Health
Joe Gibson, Marion County Health Dept.
Nicola Marsden-Haug, Tacoma-Pierce County Health Dept.
Kieran Moore, Queen’s University
Erin Murray, NYCDOHMH
David Muscatello, New South Wales Department of Health
Daniel Neill, Carnegie Mellon University
Marc Overhage, Regenstrief Institute
Marc Paladini, ISDS
Christen Reid, University of Pittsburgh
Robert Rolfs, CSTE State of Utah
William Saville, Ohio State University
Karl Soetebier, Georgia Dept. of Health
Amy Sonricker, ISDS
Jim Talbot, Capital Health Authority of Alberta
Mike Wade, Indiana State Dept. Health
Kees van den ‘Wijngaard, Ctr. for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Natl. Inst. of Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands