The Fusion of Public Health Surveillance and Advanced Information Technology

Robert Tauxe, MD, Chris Braden, MD, and Richard Williams, present the first lecture in the Public Health Informatics Series. The presentation entitled “The Fusion of Public Health Surveillance and Advanced Information Technology Producing Resilient, Adaptable, and Complex Analytics for Outbreak Surveillance,” focuses on ways to advance public health surveillance by assimilating scientific and information technology resources. This presentation examines the current surveillance system, the new, integrated surveillance and analysis system, as well as discusses the challenges of integrating a novel surveillance and analysis system.
(Lecture given on January 28, 2008)


Audience: General Public Health
Time 1 hour, 24 minutes
Format(s): Webcast, Podcast