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Designing Data Dashboards to Build Community Engagement Around Young People’s Well-Being

Posted on June 6, 2023 by Nathaniel W. Anderson, Shirley Russ, Daniel Eisenberg, and Neal Halfon

This entry is part 9 of 17 in the series July 2023

Data dashboards can engage communities and drive policy improvements to support children’s health and well-being, so long as these tools are co-designed with communities and tailored to local context.

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State Health Agency Collaborations to Enhance and Leverage Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMP) for Public Health Surveillance and Clinical Decision Making

Posted on March 16, 2023 by Nathan Wood, LCDR Jamie Mells, Timothy Dotson, James Jeffries

Collaboration facilitates the use of PDMP data for epidemiologic studies and public health surveillance, which results in sustainable analyses and dissemination of actionable data that are now driving public health action in West Virginia.

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Practice Report Summaries for the March 2022 Issue

Posted on March 14, 2022 by jphmpdirect

JPHMP Practice Report Summaries for March 2022

Summaries of select practice articles published in the March 2022 issue of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. An Evaluation of Syndromic Surveillance Related Practices among Selected State and Local Health Agencies by Romano, Sebastian MPH; Yusuf, Hussain MD, MPH; Davis, Cassandra MPH; Thomas, Mathew J. MPH; Grigorescu, Violanda MD, MSPH This report focuses on the recent practices of

March 2022: Public Health Surveillance

Posted on February 1, 2022 by Lloyd F. Novick

This March issue of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice focuses on public health surveillance. The lead editorial by Jeffrey Bethel describes wastewater surveillance as a powerful tool in monitoring communicable disease. This innovative technique is now being used for COVID-19 surveillance to determine the spread of this pathogen in communities. Researchers have found a correlation between occurrence

From the Editor: Public Health Surveillance of Infectious Disease Attention to COVID-19

Posted on September 25, 2020 by jphmpdirect

by Lloyd F. Novick, MD, MPH The November-December issue of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice focuses on surveillance of infectious disease attention to COVID-19. As this issue goes to press, the presidential election is on the near horizon. The decision of the electorate on choosing the next president has public health implications. This is reflected in the lead scientific

The Editor’s Podcast: Public Health Surveillance

Posted on September 22, 2020 by jphmpdirect

by Lloyd F. Novick, MD, MPH The Editor’s Podcast with Dr. Lloyd F. Novick appears with each new issue of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice and offers a closer look at the articles published in the latest issues with guest appearances by authors, guest editors, and others. The November-December issue of the Journal of Public Health Management and