Research: Surveillance

Project Title
Public Health Surveillance Systems

Principal Investigators

Anna Waller, ScD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Dept of Emergency Medicine
Pia MacDonald, PhD, MPH, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Dept of Epidemiology and NC Institute for Public Health, NC Center for Public Health Preparedness

NC Division of Public Health Liaison

Aaron Fleischauer, PhD, MPH, CDC Career Epi Field Officer assigned to NC Division of Public Health

Research Question
How can North Carolina’s surveillance systems be improved to enhance public health preparedness?

Goal
To systematically assess the performance of timely, electronic public health surveillance systems in North Carolina and, based on the assessments, develop, implement and analyze interventions for system performance improvement.

Aims (Year 1)

Assess surveillance needs and uses to inform the development of interventions to improve the role of surveillance in public health preparedness and response (PHPR) in North Carolina.
Examine the system capacity, processes, outputs and outcomes of North Carolina Disease Event Tracking and Epidemiologic Collection Tool (NC DETECT) to develop system interventions to improve NC DETECT functionality for PHPR.

Publications, Presentations & Posters
Citations will be posted when available.