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• Supported multi-year Informatics Field Assignee (IFA) positions in • Hosted the 2019 Climate & Respiratory Health Summit in Atlanta,
four jurisdictions to increase informatics workforce capacity. GA to share best practices and develop strategies to improve skills
• Published multiple content releases of reporting specifications and knowledge of STLT climate and health epidemiologists.
for 89 conditions in the Reportable Conditions Knowledge • Hosted the 2018 Occupational Health (OH) Subcommittee Winter
Management System (RCKMS), continued to develop the Meeting with NIOSH in Miami, FL, the 11 Annual Western
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Authoring Interface and Decision Support Service RCKMS tool, and States Occupational Network (WestON) conference in Denver, CO,
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supported jurisdictions in implementing electronic case reporting and the 8 Annual Southeastern States Occupational Network
(eCR). (SouthON) conference in Tampa, FL. All three meetings were
• Supported the NSSP Community of Practice (CoP) including
the Core Committee, numerous workgroups, and knowledge
Climate & Respiratory Health Summit in Atlanta, GA (May 2019)
repository to enhance syndromic surveillance capacity and
information sharing.
• Funded eight new jurisdictions for novel surveillance projects
on substance use and mental health issues and completed an
evaluation of 20 previously funded projects.
• Provided support—including direct technical assistance, webinars
and guidance documents—to 40 jurisdictions conducting
jurisdictional vulnerability assessments to identify communities
at risk of opioid overdose, HIV, and/or viral hepatitis due to unsafe
injection drug use.
• Hosted a four-part data linkage webinar series for drug overdose
surveillance featuring best practices for combining data sources to
better understand the total burden of overdose in jurisdictions.
• Funded four jurisdictions to pilot the CSTE Neonatal Abstinence
Syndrome Standardized Surveillance Case Definition, Tier 1.
Convenings & Meetings

• Convened 14 workshops at the 2019 CSTE Annual Conference
to provide training, build capacity, and develop subject matter
expertise.
• Hosted the 10 Annual CSTE Disaster Epidemiology (DE) Workshop
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in Atlanta, GA to improve all-hazard disaster preparedness and
response epidemiology capacity at all levels of public health.

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