Pilot Needs Assessment of State Health Departments
Qualitative Assessments
CORI partners with state public health departments to conduct qualitative needs assessments. This effort is led by Dr. Diane Meyer, Senior Scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.
The objectives are to:
- Understand the existing disease surveillance and data reporting systems for outbreak and epidemic response
- Identify challenges and gaps in integrating these tools into existing outbreak detection, response capacities processes, and future epidemiologic modeling and analytics needs.
- Inform broader state health department partnership-outbreak response efforts of strategic approach to outbreak and epidemic response
The overall goal of these partnerships is to develop strategies, protocols, and/or tools to strengthen epidemic modeling and analytics capabilities for outbreak response decision-making.
A report of our findings will be accessible on this page. Please follow our social media channels to stay up to date on their availability.
Opportunity to Partner
Who: State health departments
What: To help facilitate the assessment, fictious scenarios are used to allow the state health department to guide the research team through their processes and procedures for outbreak detection, monitoring, and response.
The specific scenario will depend upon priority pathogens (eg, mumps, measles, etc.) identified by the state public health department partners.
How: Contact us to learn more about needs assessments
*Please include Pilot Needs Assessment as your subject line.