In this issue
NC health departments participate
This summer 98% of North Carolina health departments participated in research conducted by the North Carolina Preparedness and Emergency Response Research Center (NCPERRC). Five different NCPERRC research studies gathered information on the initial response to the H1N1 outbreak, the use of NC DETECT and NCHAN, and the support and services provided to local health departments by the PHRSTs. More...
Surveillance system gets fresh look
Following the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, unprecedented funding was given to state and local public health departments to improve their infrastructure to prepare for and respond to terrorism and other emerging health threats. North Carolina spent part of the allocated federal public health preparedness funds on improving the North Carolina Disease Event Tracking and Epidemiologic Collection Tool which had been collecting emergency department data since 1999. Now, through the NCPERRC, researchers have the opportunity to systematically assess the strengths, weaknesses, and areas for improvement of the electronic surveillance systems that have been in use for years as well as newer systems. More...
NCPERRC projects
The overall theme of the Center’s research is to create and maintain sustainable preparedness and response systems. The Public Health Surveillance Systems project is featured in this issue. More...
What is systems research?
In previous issues, we have defined PHSR (Issue 1), given an example (Issue 2) and discussed what we learned at a recent conference (Issue 3). Now we will put PHSR in the context of public health performance. More...
NCPERRC Profile
Meet Anna E. Waller, ScD. More...
Our pledge to collaborators
We appreciate the contributions of our research collaborators. When we request your participation in one of our research studies, we make the following pledge to you. We will:
- coordinate our requests for information to ensure that there is no duplication of requested information,
- be considerate of your time and priorities,
- acknowledge your contribution to our research by recognizing your organization (to maintain your confidentiality),
- share our research findings with you.
Thanks to research participants
Over 150 NC health department staff have participated in our research. As a thank you, we have sent public health books and had a drawing for expenses paid to attend the NCPHA conference in Asheville. Congratulations to a staff member from Nash County who won this drawing!
We also thank Doug Urland, who serves on the NCPERRC Synergy & Translation Committee, for his assistance with sharing NCPERRC information with his colleagues in the NCALHD.
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