CORI Community of Practice

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Overview 

The CORI Community of Practice (CoP) is designed to enhance the collective capacity of health departments to respond to outbreaks swiftly and effectively using modeling, analytics, and decision support tools.  

Goals

Key goals include:  

  • Facilitate real-time sharing of best practices and lessons-learned for modeling, analytics and outbreak response decision-making. 
  • Promote the development of an expanded network of state, tribal, local, and territorial health departments and collaborative problem-solving for complex outbreak scenarios. 
  • Enhance the dissemination of resources and tools across jurisdictions. 
  • Improve overall preparedness and response capabilities among participating health departments. 
  • Develop a culture of continuous improvement for outbreak response by sharing lessons learned and actionable solutions.  
Topics
  • Outbreak response tools (e.g., REDCap Projects, dashboards, and response template protocols, press releases, and more). 
  • Modeling and analytic tools (e.g., models and analyses developed by other health departments, infectious disease modelers, etc.) 
  • Decision support tools (e.g., risk assessments, guidance documents) 
  • Quality improvement principles   
Audience

The CoP will primarily serve epidemiologists, data analysts, outbreak response teams, emergency preparedness personnel, and decision-makers from local, state, and territorial health departments. 

  

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Session Registration  

Register for our Community of Practice Summer Series below.  

The Summer Series theme is tools and templates for more streamlined, standardized outbreak preparedness and response. Presentations focus on operational tools and templates, data collection, management, and analysis approaches, and click-and-go modeling tools to inform decision making.  

June 

Register HERE: 

Topics:  

  • Data sources for monitoring early indicators of infectious disease outbreaks
  • A click-and-go measles modeling tool for simulating outbreak size and duration based on vaccine coverage in schools 

 

Presenters: 

  • Carnegie Mellon University DELPHI Group
  • University of Texas at Austin EPI Engage 

 

July 

Register HERE:

Topics: 

  • Comprehensive measles preparedness tools and approaches, from an operational plan to case investigation and contact monitoring templates
  • Application of a click-and-go measles modeling tool, and how it can be used to motivate schools and communities to promote vaccination  

 

Presenters: 

  • Jefferson County Health Department
  • University of Utah ForeSITE  & Utah Department of Health 

 

August 

Register HERE: 

Topic & presenters to be announced.  

 

 

Session Materials 

Access all session recordings and resources below. Health Departments who have registered for the session will be notified when resources become available. 

May 
June Resources will be posted following the session.  
July Resources will be posted following the session.  
August Resources will be posted following the session.