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OH Surveillance Subcommittee Update

Erin Simms 2013 CSTE OH Fall Meeting

Atlanta, GA

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Good Morning. My name is Erin Simms and I am a research analyst at CSTE. I plan to briefly discuss some organizational priorities and give program updates.

Inside Your Folder

• Agenda • Participant List • CDC/NCIPC and CDC/NCCDPHP organizational

charts • List of FY13 Susan Harwood: Capacity

Building grantees https://www.osha.gov/dte/sharwood/

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The Susan Harwood Training Grant Program awards grants to nonprofit organizations on a competitive basis. Awards are issued annually based on Congressional appropriation. The focus of the program is to provide training and education for workers and employers on the recognition, avoidance, and prevention of safety and health hazards in their workplaces, and to inform workers of their rights and employers of their responsibilities under the OSH Act. OSHA awarded over $10 million to 70 non-profit organizations in FY 2013 . Grants were awarded for the following grant categories: Capacity Building (in folders), Targeted Topic and Training and Educational Materials, and Disaster Relief.

https://www.osha.gov/dte/sharwood/

CSTE Executive Board

Infectious Diseases Steering

Committee

Adult Immunization

Child Immunization

Food Safety/CIFOR

HIV Healthcare-Associated Infections/ Antibiotic

Resistance Influenza

STDs

CD/MCH/Oral Health

Steering Committee

Cancer Cardiovascular

Chronic Disease Epidemiology

Capacity Building

Chronic Disease Indicators

Maternal/Child Health

Surveillance and Informatics

Environmental/Occupational/ Injury Steering

Committee

Climate Change Disaster

Epidemiology Environmental Epidemiology

Injury Surveillance &

Control Occupational

Health Surveillance

Surveillance/ Informatics

Steering Committee

Surveillance Practice &

Implementation Surveillance

Policy Electronic

Laboratory & Disease

Reporting Surveillance Indicators

Cross Cutting I Steering

Committee

Alcohol Alcohol & Other Drug Indicators

Local Epidemiology

Overdose Substance

Abuse Workforce

Cross Cutting II Steering

Committee

Border/ International

Health Disparities

Public Health Law

Tribal Epidemiology

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CSTE’s activities are organized into Steering Committees, with each chaired by a member of the 10-member Executive Board. These steering committees are further organized into subcommittees, which is where the work of CSTE takes place.

Occupational Health

• Published Management Guidelines for Blood Lead Levels in Adults & Counting Work-related Injuries and Illnesses: Taking Steps to Close the Gaps

• Webinars: ICD 10 transition & NIOCCS • OHI and OH Leadership group activities • Ongoing BRFSS surveillance collaboration

Infectious Disease • HIV & HAI peer to peer technical consultations • Customized SAS trainings for HIV coordinators • NASPHV compendium on prevention of zoonotic

disease among veterinarians and other workers • CSTE working with APHL on strengthening lab/epi

communications for improved efficiencies in surveillance

• CIFOR completed a series of documents on legal authority in states to conduct disease surveillance and respond to outbreaks

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The Veterinary Standard Precautions Compendium will convene to update national guidance on occupational infection prevention for veterinarians.

Surveillance/Informatics

• 2013 Epidemiology Capacity Assessment ongoing

• 2012-2013 State Reportable Conditions Assessment this fall

• Planning an informatics national summit

Environmental Health

• Published report on the use of Poison Center Data & Guidelines for investigating suspected cancer clusters and community concerns

• Interested in providing guidance or a point of contact to states for fracking-related issues

• New workgroup to define the use of syndromic surveillance data for surveillance of non-infectious conditions

Chronic Disease/MCH/Oral Health

• Published Chronic Disease Orientation Manual

• Various webinars

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Intended to be an orientation manual and additional resource for training and standardization of the chronic disease epidemiology workforce. targeted to new lead chronic disease epis. Webinars: Evaluation 101 and An Editor’s Perspective on Preparing, Reviewing and Selecting Manuscripts for Publication, all archived on the CSTE Webinar Library

Cross Cutting

• H.R. 1792 – currently administrative directive: establishes requirements for mandatory reporting of state reportable diseases by the VA to public health

• 2 new subcommittees - Epidemiology Methods and Public Health & Primary Care Integration

• 2 new fellowship opportunities – I-TIPP & HSIP

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Epidemiology Methods subcommittee aims to increase the knowledge and practice of epidemiology methods in state, local, tribal and territorial settings, to support workforce development, institutional capacity building, and provide guidance on the intersection of epidemiology and public health. One of their first projects will involve assessing the scientific writing capacity and publishing of state, local, territorial and tribal epidemiologists in collaboration with MMWR. Public Health & Primary Care Integration subcommittee will work to establish the role of the epidemiologist in the reintegration of public health of primary care efforts and to redefine the public health epidemiology workforce in a post-ACA environment. The subcommittee activities will focus on how to exchange health information, Community Health Assessments, collaborating with primary care providers to enhance surveillance, among other topics. CSTE received CDC cooperative agreement funding for2 new fellowship programs: The Informatics Training in Place Program (I-TIPP) which is for the existing workforce to participate in training while remaining in their full-time state/local position, and the Health Systems Integration Program (HSIP) which will assign EIS-graduates (or equivalent) to a state/local health department to work on projects related to the integration of health care and public health.

CDC/CSTE Applied Epidemiology Fellowship

2014 – 2016 (class 12) • 5 Host site billets accepted: CA, MI, CO, FL & WI 2013 – 2015 (class 11) • Current fellows: N/A 2012 – 2014 (class 10) • Current fellows: Rebecca Cohen, CA and

MyDzung Chu, MA

Deadly Outbreaks: How Medical Detectives Save Lives Threatened by Killer Pandemics, Exotic Viruses, and Drug-Resistant Parasites

*Purchase your copy today!

CSTE Email Listserv

You must sign up! Go to www.cste.org, click on any OH program

page, and then click “Join Group.”

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If you have not already signed up as a member of the subcommittee through the website, you must do so in order to continue receiving information related to this subcommittee.

http://www.cste.org

Thank you!

CSTE National Office: 770-458-3811 Erin Simms: [email protected]

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Future Webinars

– Writing a competitive grant application – Communicating to policymakers – ACS hands-on/how this can be used for denominator

data – Ag Injury Surveillance and denominator data – Evaluation on a Shoestring Budget – Syndromic surveillance primer – Utilizing BRFSS data & analysis tips – Investigations where epi has led to intervention – Electronic health records update

CSTE Annual Conference • Marion Kainer to present on HAIs and the link between OH and ID • Panel discussion on injury and illness datasets (NHANES, NHIS, BRFSS, etc.) • Local/regional OH issues and perspective • Occupational asthma and heavy metal surveillance • Bring in a specialist on an emerging issue • How to create effective education/intervention materials with minimal funding

– Developing communications tools – How-to discussion focused on prevention: how to do it, what materials – Innovative outreach & how states have used their data for intervention – Social marketing

• OH: how does it fit in a public health model – Using one state as an example, provide a basic ‘how to’ on data, surveillance, intervention &

prevention – Methods of data gathering – Application of data findings to guide interventions (thought process/variety/how states approach it) – How to identify priority areas for your state (strategies) – How to be useful to your state: work comp; OSHA; i.e. provide useful data to partners – Evaluation

Future Activities

• OHIs • Worker’s compensation workgroup • Electronic health record liaison or workgroup • Multi-state projects (heat related illness) • Webinar

– NIOCCS – Grant writing – Communicating to policymakers

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