To: Charles Winfrey, Human Services Committee Chairperson
From: Michelle Estell, RS, MSA, Acting Health Officer
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RE: Overnight Travel to the 2024 CSTE Epidemiology Conference
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BOARD ACTION REQUESTED:
Board approval and referral by Health Officer to appropriate committee of the Board of Commissioners.
BACKGROUND:
The 2024 Annual Council of State, Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) Conference (June 8-12, 2024 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is a recommended conference for epidemiologist staff that work for a local, state, territorial health department. Chief Epidemiologist Danielle Lederer is the supervisor of the Epidemiology Team and COVID-19 program and Mikayla Benbow is an epidemiologist in the Epidemiology team and the two are requesting to attend.
DISCUSSION:
The CSTE Annual Conference connects more than 2,500 public health epidemiologists from across the country and will include workshops, plenary sessions with leaders in the field of public health, oral breakout sessions, roundtable discussions, and poster presentations. Conference attendees meet and share their expertise in surveillance and epidemiology as well as best practices in a broad range of areas including informatics, infectious diseases, substance use, immunizations, environmental health, occupational health, chronic disease, injury control, and maternal and child health. This event will assist the Epidemiology team on best practices for disease surveillance and control.
IMPACT ON HUMAN RESOURCES:
This will cause no impact to human resources.
IMPACT ON BUDGET:
This will be paid out of account 2210-602.07-910.004 for Conference/training fees and 913.001 for travel costs. No additionally county appropriations will be required.
IMPACT ON FACILITIES:
There is no anticipated impact on facilities related to this request.
IMPACT ON TECHNOLOGY:
Staff attending the conference will travel with their work computer devices in order to be able to conduct County business while offsite. ...
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