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Welcome and Opening Plenary Part 2
10:00 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.
Sharing Best Practices in Cross-Border Collaborations
The Great Lakes Border Health Initiative is one of several regional groups working to build essential relationships in cross-border infectious disease surveillance. Representatives from three of these initiatives will share their insights, experiences and best practices.
Richard Buck
Border Health Manager
New York State Department of Health
Wayne Turnberg, MS, MSPH
Epidemiologist
Washington State Department of Health
Stephen Waterman, MD, MPH
Medical Epidemiologist
U.S. - Mexico Border Infectious Disease Coordinator
CDC Quarantine and Border Health Services
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
PulseNet Foodborne Cluster Detection System: A Model International Program
PulseNet’s formal Memorandum of Understanding was a major step forward in the international exchange of real-time information on foodborne disease clusters and outbreaks. This agreement will be a model for the development of similar agreements between other international health initiatives.
Peter Gerner-Smidt, MD, PhD
Chief, Epidemiologic Investigation
PulseNet USA
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Visit the MALPH web site at
http://www.malph.org
Presented by
Michigan Association of Local Public Health
This event is part of
2006 Great Lakes Border Health Initiative Conference
Pathways and Partnerships in Cross-Border Health. This two-day conference is an opportunity for health care and emergency preparedness professionals along international borders of Canada and the United States to gather and discuss ongoing collaborative work on infectious disease surveillance.
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