FLU NEAR YOU ENGAGING THE PUBLIC IN PUBLIC HEALTH Public Health Preparedness Summit 2015 Atlanta, GA...

FLU NEAR YOU

ENGAGING THE PUBLIC IN PUBLIC HEALTH

Public Health Preparedness Summit 2015

Atlanta, GA

Adam W. Crawley, MPH & Jennifer Olsen, DrPH

Skoll Global Threats Fund

PARTICIPATORY VS TRADITIONAL

SURVEILLANCE

TRADITIONALPARTICIPATO

RY

SPEED

SCALABILITY

SENSITIVITY

SPECIFICITY

CREDIBILITY

FNY WEBSITE

FNY MOBILE APPLICATON

SYSTEM MODIFICATIONS

• Addition of real-time reporting mechanism with weekly follow-up

• Travel or “out of town” survey indicator

• Addition of “have you sought medical care?” follow-up question for symptomatic participants

NEXT STEPS

• Continued research to determine optimal user distribution and identify sampling biases

• Outreach and marketing to grow user base

• Developing public and private partnerships… including health departments

• Continued refinement of FNY system and input on its use

DATA SHARING

• FNY data is available for health departments, with symptom reporting aggregated to the zip-code level.

• Variables include reporting week, zip code, total participants reporting, “ILI” and “gastrointestinal” syndromes and specific symptom totals.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

• Skoll Global Threats Fund

• HealthMap of Boston Children’s Hospital

• Epitrack

• American Public Health Association

• NACCHO

• Person County, NC; Eagle County, CO; Houston, TX; North Carolina MRC; California Dept Public Health; University of San Francisco; Louisiana State University; University of California Berkeley

QUESTIONS?

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notifications

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Adam W. Crawley, MPH

Research Associate, Pandemics

acrawley@skollglobalthreats.org