First Annual Symposium
The Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics held its first annual symposium during the week of June 14, 2010. The symposium, titled "Surveillance for Decision Making in Emerging Diseases: Lessons from the 2009 H1N1 Pandemic Influenza", invited more than twenty-five speakers and had over one hundred attendees from around the world.
The goals of the symposium were to:
- Define the key decisions made at various stages of a pandemic by policy makers and clinicians
- Produce a prioritized list of data inputs that would improve these decisions
- Define key aspects of existing surveillance systems to preserve/expand and make the case for limited, prioritized expansion of systems.
Slides from the event are available by scrolling to the agenda below and clicking on the presentation name, listed below the presenter. For most of the moderated discussions, slidesets were not utilized.
If you would like additional information, please contact Alissa Scharf.
Surveillance for Decision Making in Emerging Diseases:
Lessons from 2009 H1N1 Pandemic Influenza
I. Needs for Surveillance
June 14, 2010
8:30 am Marc Lipsitch CCDD
8:55 am Maria Van Kerkhove MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modeling, Imperial College London
Global decision making: What numbers did we need, and when?
9:20 am Richard Hatchett White House National Security Staff and Katrin Kohl CDC
Kohl - National decision making: What numbers did we need, and when?
10:00 am Steven Riley University of Hong Kong and George Korch US Department of Health and Human Services
Korch - Planning Scenario development: What numbers did we need, and when?
10:40 am Coffee break
11:10 am Annie Fine NY City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Local public health decision making: What numbers did we need, and when?
11:35 am Allison McGeer Mt. Sinai Hospital, Toronto
Clinical decision making: What numbers did we need, and when?
Moderated Discussion
12:30 pm Lunch
1:30 pm Paul Biedrzycki City of Milwaukee Health Department and Larry Madoff MA Department of Public Health
Madoff - Local/State surveillance resources
Biedrzycki - Local/State surveillance resources
2:10 pm Lyn Finelli US Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, Liz Miller UK Health Protection Agency, and Michael Baker University of Otago, New Zealand
Miller - UK National surveillance systems
Finelli - USA National surveillance systems
Baker - New Zealand National surveillance systems
3:00 pm Marc-Alain Widdowson US Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
Surveillance in the developing world
3:30 pm Coffee Break
4:00 pm Don Olson International Society for Disease Surveillance, Nathan Eagle MIT, Sander van Noort Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência and Lone Simonsen George Washington University
Olson - Novel surveillance approaches
Eagle - Novel surveillance approaches
4:45 pm Ben Cowling University of Hong Kong and Laura Forsberg White Boston University
Cowling - Statistical issues in surveillance
5:30 pm Lone Simonsen George Washington University
Moderated Discussion
6:15 Reception
June 15, 2010
8:30 am Carrie Reed CDC and Daniela De Angelis UK Health Protection Agency, Medical Research Council Biostatistics Unit
De Angelis - Severity and population disease burden: Bayesian Evidence Synthesis and Population Pyramids
9:10 am John Edmunds London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Now-casting and prediction: how well did modelling perform?
9:40 am Jacco Wallinga RIVM and University of Utrecht, NL
Optimizing disease interventions during an emerging epidemic
10:10 am Coffee break
10:40 am Christophe Fraser Imperial College London
Lessons from Virologic Surveillance
11:05 am Cecile Viboud Fogarty International Center, NIH
Disease burden from influenza-beyond respiratory infection
11:30 am Marc Lipsitch, moderator CCDD, Stephen Redd CDC, Gabriel Leung The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Rick Heffernan Wisconsin Department of Health Services
What do we need to improve our response next time?
12:30 pm Lunch and Adjourn