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Houston Health Department’s response to the threat of Zika virus
Content Type: Abstract
Zika virus spread quickly through South and Central America in 2015. The City of Houston saw its first travel-related Zika cases in December of 2015. On January 29th, the City held the first planning meeting with regional partners from healthcare,… read more -
Estimating FluNearYou Correlation to ILINet at Different Levels of Participation
Content Type: Abstract
Flu Near You allows individuals to volunteer to be a sentinel node of the syndromic surveillance (SyS) network. The platform has the potential to provide insight into the spread of influenza-like illness (ILI). CDC’s ILINet is the gold standard for… read more -
Susceptibility Profile of Drug-Resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae Based on ELR
Content Type: Abstract
Since November 2014, the Houston Health Department has been receiving antimicrobial resistance information for Streptococcus pneumoniae from a safety net hospital via electronic laboratory reporting (ELR). Antimicrobial characteristics and… read more -
Making Report-Quality Plots in R with Low-to-Moderate Coding Experience
Content Type: Webinar
Presented May 26, 2016. Eric Bakota will go over Hadley Wickham’s ‘ggplot2’ package using the same grammar of graphics framework outlined in Wickham’s 2010 paper on the subject. This webinar will discuss how to create a plot by looking at the… read more -
Using R Markdown, SQL, and RODBC to Generate Reports
Content Type: Webinar
Presented May 31, 2017. Eric Bakota will go over the results from the survey and then I’ll show a report that we generate at HHD using RMarkdown, SQL, and RODBC. This report uses RODBC to connect to our Electronic Disease Surveillance System (… read more -
Disaster Surveillance: Perspectives from Federal, State, and Local levels
Content Type: Abstract
In this panel, the presenters will discuss their perspective in responding to Hurricanes Harvey and Irma. Hurricane Harvey made landfall on August 25th and over the course of 4 days dropped approximately 27 trillion gallons of water on Texas and… read more -
UPDATED: Syndromic Surveillance 101 - Introduction to R for Health Surveillance
Content Type: Training
In this 26 minute video, Eric Bakota offers an overview of a free statistical package, R, and an overview of commonly used tips and tricks shared in the surveillance community for analysis work in R. Objectives:- …
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National Syndromic Surveillance Program Community of Practice (NSSP CoP) Expert Panel - Part II: Facilitating Groups & Meetings
Content Type: Webinar
Presented February 26, 2019. This webinar is the second installment of the 2-part NSSP CoP Expert Panel Webinar Series on Being a Leader in Your Community. … read more