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