Article by IH Alumnae Published in the Online Journal of Public Health Informatics (OJPHI)
The article “Steps to a Sustainable Public Health Surveillance Enterprise,” co-authored by BUSPH grads Nabila Mirza (’13) and Tera Reynolds (’11), was published in the latest issue of OJPHI released on June 30, 2013. The paper presents the recommendations of a Sustainable Surveillance Workgroup convened by the International Society for Disease Surveillance (ISDS) to identify strategies for building, strengthening, and maintaining surveillance systems that are equipped to adequately promote and protect the public’s health.
The citation of the paper is: Mirza N, Reynolds T, Coletta M, Suda K, Soyiri I, Markle A, Leopold H, Lenert L, Samoff E, Siniscalchi A, Streichert L. Steps to a Sustainable Public Health Surveillance Enterprise. Online Journal of Public Health Informatics. 2013;5(2). doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.5210%2Fojphi.v5i2.4703.
The article is available for viewing and download at http://ojphi.org/ojs/index.php/ojphi/article/view/4703.
Congratulations to both Nabila and Tera for this publication! We encourage all BUSPH students to disseminate the article and its key messages to the broader public health community, specifically to public health practitioners and decision makers at all levels, in order for it to have maximum impact.
