Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists

See schedule otrainings and resources: 1) released the zoonotic influenza reference guide in partnership with nasphv and cdc 2)released the injury data science competencies. 3) released the reproductive health after disasters (rhad) 2.0 toolkit in partnership with cdc 4) released the emergency management system (ems) nonfatal opioid overdose standard guidance and recommendations for the use of ems data to identify nonfatal opioid overdose in partnership with cdc, nasemso, and nemsis 5) released the overdose anomaly toolkit

See schedule oconvenings and meetings: 1) hosted the 2021 syndromic surveillance symposium2) hosted a virtual winter 2021 business meeting of the cste occupational health subcommittee 3 hosted a hybrid spring 2022 meeting of the cste occupational health subcommittee on developing how-to guides for occupational disease surveillance4 hosted the 2022 disaster epidemiology workshop changing the climate of disaster epidemiology with over 300 attendees 5) hosted 14 workshops at the 2021 annual conference6) hosted two virtual multi-day infectious disease forecasting workshops in fall 2021 and spring 20227) continued to virtually convene the cifor and corha councils

See schedule obuilding stlt capacity:1) maintenance of recurring meetings of cste steering and subcommittees throughout covid-19 pandemic 2) support the reportable conditions knowledge management system (rckms) for electronic case reporting 3) support the national syndromic surveillance program (nssp) community of practice4) hosted 3-part "hiv data best practices" webinar series in partnership with nastad5) launched new advanced molecular detection workgroup and webinar series6) supported jurisdictional projects to implement pregnancy risk assessment monitoring system (prams)supplements on covid-19, covid-19 vaccines, and social determinants of health7) supported six jurisdictional projects to implement data science injury surveillance projects

Partnerships:1) cste continues collaboration with citymatch and cdc division of reproductive health to develop content for the 2022 citymatch mch epi conferences2) cste contributes ongoing applied epidemiology expertise and insight on amchp's graduate student epidemiology program internship advisory committee3) as part of the aphl opioid biosurveillance task force's neonatal abstinence syndrome project, cste represents applied Epidemiologists on a multidisciplinary committee developing a lab surveillance resource publication titled "exploring the value of laboratory data in neonatal abstinence syndrome"4) cste has joined astho's interagency workgroup, "prams multi-jurisdiction data linkage learning community" 5) cste is now a member of the Council on linkages 6) cste has joined a newly formed nceh/atsdr concurrent disasters inter-agency workgroup with representatives from cdc, fema, and neha7) cste is participating in the national action alliance for suicide prevention's measurement & accountability(m&a) work group, which is working to identify a set of metrics to measure progress in achieving near real-time data for suicide surveillance8) cste continues to co-chair the Council to improve foodborne disease outbreak response (cifor), the Council for outbreak response: hai/ar (corha), and the cste/cdc/aphl antimicrobial resistance surveillance task force (arstf) 9) in january 2022, cste hosted a partner meeting with the cdc modeling team and leadership from the new center for forecasting and outbreak analytics to discuss how cste can support and collaborate with the new center 10) in january 2022, cste hosted a partner meeting with the cdc division of viral hepatitis to discuss partnership for future activities11) cste continues to support the subaward partnership with nastad with focus on "ending the hiv epidemic through strategic partnerships & communications." Cste has co-facilitated workforce and ta webinars, contributed to the planning and implementation of the 2021 nastad ehe ta meeting, and is providing sas e-learning training to ehe jurisdictions12) cste continues to provide liaisons to key national infectious disease partner groups, including acip, shea, hicpac, corha, arstf, and cifor13) cste continues to partner with cdc and naphsis to provide technical assistance to vital records registrars to configure the State Territorial exchange of vital statistics (steve) application to route death data to nssp and create a centralized mailbox using steve to automate routing of mortality data to nssp for participating jurisdictions14) cste continues to partner with cdc and aphl on rckms and ecr activities. In november 2021, the new rckms coordination working group was convened, with representation from cdc, aphl, cste staff supporting rckms activities, and cste members. The group will meet monthly to inform rckms technical development priorities and impacts on content development and user interaction with the tool15) since january 2022, cste has participated in a multi-organization collaboration with astho, naccho, cste, and cdc to launch the fast healthcare interoperability resources (fhir) test collaborative to explore use of fhir for public health use casesresources covid-19 response:1) convened weekly conference calls, webinars and ad-hoc workgroups to support stlt members and partners in response activities and exchange of critical information and practice sharing2) strengthened existing partnerships and fostered non-traditional partnerships to strengthen the national response and offer resources to stlt members3) developed and updated guidance documents, including for school outbreak, death classification, hospital classification, interim covid-19 surveillance framework4) developed joint partner statement: transition from universal case investigation and contact tracing5) revised the covid-19 surveillance case definition position statement6) cste covid-19 response membership webinar series, including webinars on threats to public health authority, covid-19 in pregnancy, wastewater surveillance and more7) strengthened stlt capacity and workforce through aef fellows and direct funding for covid-net surveillance participation, developing forecasts and mathematical models for covid-19, conducting surveillance for sars-cov-2 in animals, identifying and investigating unexplained respiratory deaths, and assessing maternal behaviors around pregnancy during the pandemic8) released final report and conducted webinar on addressing gaps in public health reporting of race and ethnicity data for covid-19workforce development and building stlt capacity: 1) update of cste applied epidemiology competencies (aecs)2) relaunch of aphif informatics fellowship3) data science team training program (dstt)4) 6th cohort of early career professionals subcommittee5) cste learn training platformdata modernization: 1) launched cste data modernization workgroup2) intensive engagement with cdc dmi implementation strategy including participation in dmi consortium and selection of building blocks and use cases3) helios fhir accelerator steering committee and priority workgroup leadership and participation (members and cste staff)4) submitted extensive comments reflecting stlt perspectives on cms promoting interoperability proposed rules, uscdi 5) participation in cdc foundation lights, camera, action series for dmi6) close partnership with astho, aphl, naccho, big cities health coalition, naphsis, himss and other organizations to coordinate and articulate stlt positions on dmicste lead - leading Epidemiologists, advancing data: 1) alfreda holloway-beth, phd, ms (cook county department of public health) has developed a strategic plan to support the growth of the epi department2) amy bettano, mph (Massachusetts department of public health) has standardized the collection and analysis of disability data within the ma public health data warehouse3) ying zhang, phd, mph (southern Nevada health district) is using syndromic surveillance data to visualize injury data to inform public health action