2022-2023 CSTE Mentorship Program

Discussion: What is a public health/epidemiology topic that you are interested in learning more about?

What is an public health topic you want to know more about? Share in the comments!

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Alexis Carson
This is a more difficult one, but I want to know more about/start to collect data on miscarriage in WA in order to better understand how often this happens and look at potential contributing factors. 

Additionally, I would like to know more about/start to collect data on PCOS and Endometriosis (or endo like symptoms) in WA. 
Bernhard Kloppenburg
Software that can help with organizing tasks and time management. Currently I use Outlook and a hand written to do list but am curious if there is a better way of staying organized. Epidemiology is not a one dimensional role that is for sure. 
Emily Janoff, Epidemiologist
My local health department recently began collecting wastewater samples to monitor not only Covid-19 levels but also Influenza, RSV, Norovirus, etc. I'm currently really interested in best practice for analyzing wastewater data as well as how to best present this data to the public/local practitioners in a digestible and meaningful way. Although the technology is not new, the large scale analyses and uses are and it's been interesting to see how various locations are reporting out their data. Being that my LHJ is small and rural, I am also interesting in learning more about fitting a model to this data in order to do some projections. Lots of advantages and disadvantages to various model types. 
Kelly Giesbrecht, KY State Public Health Vet at KY DPH
Disease forecasting is an area I would like to learn more about and explore.
Carlene Robinson Me too!
Gabby
Anything related to Zoonatic disease detection and prevention is very interesting to me!
Gabe Argueta, VPD Surveillance Epidemiologist
My local health department (GA) has started seeing an uptick in parapertussis cases! I've been wanting to explore what other states have been doing in regards to surveillance increases/collection in general.
Daniel Chacreton, IDPI Section Admin
Hi Gabe,

We are also monitoring an increase in Florida. We are currently reviewing out syndromic surveillance data to better describe the trend.

Daniel Chacreton PhD, MPH, CPH
Administrator of the Infectious Disease Prevention and Investigation Section, SES

Phone: (850) 245-4412
Cell: (850) 901-7745
Fax: (850) 922-9299
24/7 EPI Hotline: (850) 245-4401
Daniel.chacreton@flhealth.gov<mailto:Daniel.chacreton@flhealth.gov>

Florida Department of Health
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Tallahassee, FL 32399

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Carlene Robinson
I am interested in disease forecasting and developing community qualitative engagement. I think this would be very useful to my future work if I could develop more in these areas.