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The potential of decedent respiratory virus infection surveillance
Author: Andrew F. Brouwer, PhD, MS, MA, Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Michigan Center for Infectious Disease Threats and Pandemic Preparedness (MCIDT) Faculty Affiliate The standard surveillance for respiratory viruses comes from people...
How Do We Keep Track of Communicable Disease Surveillance?
Author: Tiffany Henderson, MPH, Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Unbeknownst to me in 2004, as a junior at the University of Michigan just starting to understand public health, a team of epidemiologists at the Michigan Health Department was working on...
Indicators of useful surveillance systems
Author: Dr. Kahler Stone, MPH, Assistant Professor at Middle Tennessee State University We’ve already established that each public health surveillance system is unique in structure and purpose. Three simple and meaningful questions can be asked to understand the...
What’s public health surveillance and is it useful?
Author: Dr. Kahler Stone, MPH, Assistant Professor at Middle Tennessee State University What is public health surveillance? When we hear the word surveillance, we might think of spies gathering intelligence or police officers conducting a stakeout, waiting and...
Individualized Emergency Responses Matter: An Introduction to CASPER
Author: Zara Hashmi, Research Assistant, Public Health Prepared Overview Emergency response and pandemic preparedness have both been on the forefront for multiple sectors within the field of public health, with many practitioners facing challenges they have not...