Infectious Disease

Webinar Description: Participants will learn more about CSTE’s recently released report, Addressing Gaps in Public Health Reporting of Race and Ethnicity Data for COVID-19: Findings & Recommendations among 45 State and Local Health Departments (pdf) and hear speakers from CSTE, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and representatives from state health departments in Hawaii and Louisiana regarding approaches, …

Addressing Gaps in Public Health Reporting of Race & Ethnicity Data for COVID-19 Read More »

Participants will hear from Boston University’s COVID-19 pandemic management team and the Connor Lab of the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL) who have collaborated to link traditional contact tracing with genomic sequencing as an effective approach for informing public health protocols to limit disease spread in a university environment. This hybrid model for disease …

Problem-solving Collaboration Between Laboratory and Epidemiology Programs on COVID-19 Read More »

CSTE, in collaboration with NASTAD, hosted a three-part webinar series, “HIV Data Best Practices”. This webinar series focused on best practices and strategies for effectively using HIV data for successful programmatic and systematic outcomes in state, local, territorial, and tribal (STLT) health departments. Presenters covered topics such as addressing challenges to data reporting to multiple …

Data Best Practices for PS20-2010 Read More »

CSTE, in collaboration with NASTAD, hosted a three-part webinar series, “HIV Data Best Practices”. This webinar series focused on best practices and strategies for effectively using HIV data for successful programmatic and systematic outcomes in state, local, territorial, and tribal (STLT) health departments. Presenters covered topics such as addressing challenges to data reporting to multiple …

Using Surveillance Data to Inform HIV Programs Read More »

CSTE, in collaboration with NASTAD, hosted a three-part webinar series, “HIV Data Best Practices”. This webinar series focused on best practices and strategies for effectively using HIV data for successful programmatic and systematic outcomes in state, local, territorial, and tribal (STLT) health departments. Presenters covered topics such as addressing challenges to data reporting to multiple …

HIV Data Reporting to Multiple Funding Streams Read More »

Define genomic epidemiology and how it relates to infectious disease epidemiology more broadly List at least two disciplines outside of epidemiology that are foundational to genomic epidemiology Explain at least one real-word scenario where pathogen genomics can inform response or policy decisions in public health practice Describe at least two challenges that hinder the onboarding …

Introduction to Pathogen Genomics in Public Health Read More »

To review methods to investigate a foodborne disease outbreak, To introduce the CIFOR Guidelines for Foodborne Disease Outbreak Response, To describe the tools and focus areas included in the CIFOR Toolkit Bela Matyas, Leslie Tengelsen, Louisa Castrodale, Ginger Provo, Amy Nelson