Research Projects and Collaborations

Current

01/01/2010
Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC (Case Detection Project)

James Levin, MD, Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO)

01/01/2009
Allegheny County Health Department (Case Detection Project)

Ronald Voorhees, MD, Chief of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

01/01/2008
City Houston Health Department, TX (RODS Deployment)

Jamyia Clark, Epidemiologist

01/01/2008
Ohio State Health Department (Grid Project)

Brian Fowler, MPH, Chief, Situational Monitoring and Event Detection Unit,

Center for Public Health Statistics and Informatics

01/01/2008
Pennsylvania State Health Department (Grid Project)

Kirsten Waller, MD, MPH,

01/01/2007
Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University (MedLEE Software)

Carol Friedman, Ph.D., Professor

01/01/2007
Department of Meteorology, Penn State University (SCIPUFF Dispersion Model)

Sue Ellen Haupt, Ph.D., Professor     

01/01/2005
Tarrant County Health Department, TX (RODS Deployment)

Bill Stephens, Manager, Southwest Center for Advanced Public Health Practice

Development and Evaluation of a Biosurveillance Grid (PA-OH BiG)

Funded by the CDC, which allows five participating members—Pennsylvania Department of Health, Ohio Department of Health, Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Allegheny County Health Department, and the University of Pittsburgh—to share data and detection algorithms.

Development of outbreak cluster detection algorithms using multi-data streams.
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