Partnership and Innovation
Definition:
Public health relies on diverse partnerships, including healthcare, academic, private, community, and nonprofit organizations, for driving innovation and impact through data. As technology evolves, existing partnerships expand and new ones emerge. While enhanced data access offers a comprehensive community health portrait, it introduces new and significant management considerations. State, tribal, local, and territorial public health agencies are utilizing innovation to expertly navigate this new landscape.
National Picture:
A priority of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Data Modernization Initiative is supporting and extending external partnerships, such as with healthcare and laboratories, to unlock new data streams for public health like electronic case reports. New partnerships, including wastewater testing, big tech organizations, even social media continue to emerge and offer potential for public health practice. Public health agencies leveraged these partnerships to innovate, from tracking COVID-19 levels in wastewater to implementing smartphone apps to track and notify citizens of COVID-19 exposure. Public health-related technology continues to evolve with the introduction of new messaging standards, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. Partnerships and innovation include powerful visualizations and timely identification of areas of opportunity.
- REDCap and R support the “Lab Bus”, a mobile community COVID-19 testing facility
- Georgia responds to five HIV molecular clusters
- Successful production of epidemiologic summaries of 24 infectious diseases under surveillance in California from 2013-2019 for use by local health departments and the public
- Automatic jurisdiction designation within Houston’s electronic disease surveillance system
- Equitable Vaccine Administration (EVA): A vaccine equity dashboard addressing COVID-19 vaccine disparities across Illinois
- Illinois cross-team collaboration identified mpox cases coinfected with HIV
- The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene solves foodborne illness outbreak detected using software that analyzes infections in space and time
- North Carolina combines case report data, texting to connect people with food box delivery program
- North Dakota increased automation and use of public health data through process enhancements and partnerships
- Visualizing insights in Orange County: Empowering public health change through modernized data dashboards and enhanced data availability
- Oregon establishes data repositories for access and analytics
- Wastewater testing and the pandemic response at the South Carolina Public Health Laboratory
- Coordinating COVID-19 outbreak prevention and response in K-12 schools with a setting specific epidemiologist in Washington State
- Novel approaches to analytics using dashboards
- Development and use of spatiotemporal analytics to guide dynamic COVID-19 response activities
- Monitoring travelers’ health during the COVID-19 pandemic in Rhode Island
- Washington Public Health Tackles Disease Surveillance, Intervention Issues Using New Technology and Partnerships
- Wisconsin implements influenza and respiratory syncytial virus surveillance and routine wastewater surveillance