Well, not EpiData, so perhaps a little off-topic, but see below the ========== about an Epi Info application and training.
--Chris Ryan Binghamton, NY USA
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Sent to the Epi Methods Subcommittee
See the Epi Info training opportunity below. The deadline to respond is November 14, 2014.
Jessica Pittman, MPH, CHES Associate Research Analyst Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists 2872 Woodcock Blvd. Suite 250 Atlanta, GA 30341 Phone: 770-458-3811 Fax: 770-458-8516
Website: www.cste.org
From: Jeff Engel [mailto:amasters=cste.org@mail20.wdc01.mcdlv.net] On Behalf Of Jeff Engel Sent: Friday, October 31, 2014 9:01 AM To: Jessica Pittman Subject: Epi Info Training Opportunity: Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Module
Epi Info Training Opportunity: Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Module
Dear State Epidemiologists, Deputy State Epidemiologists, and CLUE,
We are pleased to announce that CSTE is partnering with CDC to offer an Epi Info 7 Viral Hemorrhagic Fever (VHF) Outbreak Management App Train-the-Trainer Workshop in Atlanta December 10-11, 2014. The Epi Info VHF app (http://epiinfovhf.codeplex.com/) is designed to provide case management, contact tracing, analysis, and reporting services during outbreaks of Ebola and other viral hemorrhagic fevers. The workshop will prepare participants to use the VHF app as well as tools to provide training and technical assistance to colleagues.
This workshop is intended for individuals that already have experience with Epi Info 7 and are interested in gaining skills to provide Epi Info VHF app training and technical assistance to others at their health departments. Prerequisites for the workshop include:
Completion of an Epi Info 7 Intro Course or 1 year of experience using Epi Info 7
CSTE is sponsoring travel for up to 30 participants for this workshop. Please distribute and/or recommend potential candidates in your agency who may be interested in this opportunity to send a letter of interest (not to exceed 1 page) by Friday, November 14 to Amanda Masters at amasters@cste.org.
Interested candidates should indicate the following in their letter of interest:
How they meet the prerequisites listed above. Please include the date and title of the Epi Info course(s) and experience with Epi Info 7 Description of how they anticipate using this workshop to provide training at their health departments
CSTE will fund only one candidate per public health agency for this train-the-trainer workshop.
For questions or more information, please contact CSTE Director of Workforce Development Amanda Masters at amasters@cste.org or 770-458-3811.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides funding for this activity through Cooperative Agreement OT13-1302, “OSTLTS Partnerships—Building Capacity of the Public Health System to Improve Population Health through National, Nonprofit Organizations”
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Our mailing address is: The Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists 2872 Woodcock Boulevard Suite 250 Atlanta, GA 30341
epidata-list@lists.umanitoba.ca wrote:
Hello List,
As a District Medical Officer, I will have to prepare for Contact tracing and risk assessment/managing the follow-up of contacts if an unsuspected Ebola case should surface in my community.
I have started to think of a call center / health care registration system in EpiData Manager with relate feature: One event/Index case, several contacts with contact details, and follow-up details of contacts. In the event that one of the contacts should develop symptoms, then the secondary case´s contacts will have to be traced. The design of the system certainly needs some consideration.
This is a global concern, and I imagine several organizations probably already have made or have plans to develop such a system. EpiData´s share-friendly approach should be ideal under current circumstance. ECDC have already done so for food/waterborne outbreak investigation.
- Anybody already made a system, wiling to share?
- Any major Organization seeing the benefit of same-format reporting, and
willing to support development of system/templates? 3. I assume that final release of ED 2.0 with relate feature is imminent. I therefore start to work on a functional but simple local system anyway, and will seek advice from the list as needed. Where I am right now, I struggle to carry the content of more than one unique key variable over from the parent to the child record.
Any comments?
Best regards, Vegard Hoegli District Medical Officer Skien, Norway _______________________________________________ EpiData-list mailing list EpiData-list@lists.umanitoba.ca http://lists.umanitoba.ca/mailman/listinfo/epidata-list