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AEF Fellow Emma Leof touring the Wakefield pig farm

Convenings & Meetings international partners to evaluate the U.S. influenza surveillance
system and identify improvements for a more efficient, robust, and
• Hosted four Vector-Borne Diseases (VBD) Regional Meetings to useful system.
increase state, tribal, local and territorial VBD epidemiology and • Hosted a Travel History Data Harmonization Workshop in October
surveillance capacity. 2017 to share how jurisdictions collect travel history information
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• Hosted the 9 Annual CSTE Disaster Epidemiology (DE) Workshop and vet CDC’s travel history harmonization efforts through CDC’s
in Atlanta, GA to improve all-hazard disaster preparedness and Surveillance Data Platform (SDP).
response epidemiology capacity at all levels of public health • Continued serving as co-chair for the Council to Improve
practice. Foodborne Outbreak Response (CIFOR) with two in-person Council
• Hosted the ICD-10-CM Transition Workgroup and the ICD-10-CM meetings in Denver in Fall 2017 and New Orleans in Spring 2018,
Drug Poisoning Indicators Workgroup meetings in Atlanta, GA in and the Council for Outbreak Response: Healthcare-Associated
Fall 2017. Infections and Antimicrobial Resistant Pathogens (CORHA) with a
• Held the first CSTE Substance Use and Mental Health strategic meeting in Fall 2017 in Atlanta, GA.
planning meeting in Atlanta, GA with leadership from seven of • Convened two in-person meetings of the CSTE/CDC/APHL
CSTE’s Subcommittees. Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Task Force (ARSTF), focused
• Hosted a technical review of the U.S. influenza surveillance on developing recommendations to improve AR surveillance
system, which convened representatives from CDC, STLT health capacity in the United States.
departments/laboratories, and several academic, federal and

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