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| Form 990 Part III Line 4d | A) Chronic Disease, Maternal and Child Health and Oral Health 1) Distributed a training plan to build capacity in Oral Health Epidemiology: Enhancing Oral Health Epidemiology Capacity: A Three-Year Training Plan. 2) Continued the funding relationship with AMCHP and WESTAT to further enhance CD and MCH epidemiology capacity. 3) In partnership with CDC, CSTE will provide funding in early 2017 for eligible jurisdictions to implement a 12-question Marijuana Supplement within the CDC PRAMS assessment. 4) In partnership with a consultant, the Chronic Disease Subcommittee developed a Chronic Disease Epidemiology Capacity-Building Plan that prioritized and recommended potential action items from the 2013 ECA for CD/MCH/OH. 5) Provided technical assistance to ASTHO to support select states in bridging the gap in breast cancer disparities by improving their use of breast cancer data. 6) Workgroup activities: The 1305 workgroup developed materials to provide states with resources and strategies in order to meet reporting and other requirements Convened a workgroup to provide suggestions for incorporating epidemiology and surveillance in future CDC chronic disease FOAs. Convened a BRFSS Workgroup to recommend actions to address BRFSS issues including funding decreases and the need for innovative survey methods. 7) Hosted preconference workshops at the 2016 CSTE Annual Conference: Expanding our Focus: Emerging Methods to Incorporate Populations Where is the Burden and What Does it Cost? Advanced Methods Using GIS and Tools for Applied Health Economics. B) Cross Cutting Steering Committee (Including Fellowship and Workforce Development) 1) Conducted a comprehensive needs assessment about state, tribal, local and territorial capacity, interest and training needs related to Epi Info future development. 2) Partnered with CDC to convene an Epi Info Train the Trainer Workshop at CDC in March 2016 for 14 participants. 3) The Tribal Epidemiology Subcommittee Submitted an article to the Journal of Health Disparities Research and Practice using the data from the state health department and Tribal Epidemiology Center date sharing assessments: "Data Sharing for Public Health Surveillance of American Indian and Alaska Native Populations." |
| Form 990 Part III Line 4d (continued) | 4) Developed a toolkit of resources for epidemiologists working with tribal health data. 5) Continued development of the Binational Toolkit, a reference document aimed at assisting epidemiologists navigate binational cases and public health events of international significance. 6) Convened the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Indicator Development Meeting in collaboration with SAMHSA to finalize a consensus list of public health surveillance indicators in the domains of Substance Abuse and Mental Health. 7) Published and distributed the whitepaper, CSTE Recommended Indicators for Substance Abuse and Mental Health. 8) Developed and distributed How-to-Guides, one for tracking Hospitalizations Attributable to Drugs with Potential for Abuse and Dependency, and one for tracking Hospitalizations Attributable to Alcohol. 9) The Overdose subcommittee's work was presented at Safe States conference in May 2016 and at the 12th Annual World Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion in September 2016. 10) Published "Recommendations and Lessons learned for improved reporting of drug overdose deaths on death certificates." 11) Established a Mental Health Workgroup to develop state and local applied public health surveillance capacity in mental health. 12) Developed and disseminated a stakeholder-driven Guide for Sub-County Assessment of Life Expectancy (SCALE). This is a guide for calculating and mapping life expectancy estimates at the census-tract level. 13) Convened the SCALE Fall Meeting on Visualization and Messaging of Life Expectancy Estimates to identify best practices for visualization of local life expectancy estimates and messaging demonstrated effective for raising awareness, catalyzing multi-sector actions and improving public health practice. 14) Barriers and Facilitators to Scientific Writing Among Applied Epidemiologists was published in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice (September 2016 Issue) on the recent repot of Applied Epidemiology Scientific Writing Capacity Trends, Needs and Recommendations 2014. 15) Provided technical expertise to public health associations, suc as ASTHO, PHII, NACCHO, APHL and CDC in the form of our CSTE member consultancies. 16) 2016 CSTE Position Statements: 16-CC-01 "Use of Area-based Socioeconomic Status to Generate National Data on Health Outcomes with Proposed Health People 2030 Objectives for Which Individual Socioeconomic Status Data are Not Routinely Collected. 16-CC-02 "Recommendations for strengthening surveillance and research of marijuana and health outcomes in the United States." 17) Hosted preconference workshops at the 2016 CSTE Annual Conference: Data Driven Community Health Assessment and Improvement Epi Info: A Users Workshop Applied surveillance of substance use disorders: lessons from the field 18) Hosted webinars related to public health workforce and crosscutting issues: Optimizing Infectious Disease Surveillance Social Determinants of Low Birth Weight: Lessons Learned in Spatial Analysis of Sub-County Health Outcomes Applied Epidemiology Scientific Writing Trends, Needs, and Recommendations 2014 Optimizing and Designing Multi-Objective Surveillance Systems The Use of Alternate Data Sources for Public Health Data Analysis and Validation The Consequences of Opioid Prescribing The Guide to Community Preventive Services: Reviews and Recommendations for Population-based Interventions to Improve Health |
| Form 990 Part III Line 4d (continued) | C) Environment Health, Occupational Health & Injury Epidemiology Steering Committee 1) CSTE has received new funding on activities for Implementation and Testing of Proposed ICD10-CM Injury Frameworks and the Development and Implementation of an ICD10-CM Validation Dataset. The CSTE Injury ICD10-CM Transition Workgroup will convene a kickoff meeting in November 17-18 in Atlanta, GA. CSTE is working with a consultant, workgroup members, and CDC to develop the relevant guidance documents, case, definition reports, and validated dataset for the activities. 2) Coordinated with the CDC National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) to host Special Emphasis Report (SER) materials on the CSTE website. These SER materials are tools for states and other jurisdictions to produce templated fact sheets on injury topics using their own data with the goal of moving data to action. SER topics include: Traumatic Brain Injury, Infant and Early Childhood Injury and Drug Overdose Deaths. 3) Highlighted and generated state occupational health success stories on the CSTE website. 4) Maintained 23 occupational health indicators for surveillance with an annually updated guidance document and posted state-provided data on the CSTE website. Developed a new guidance document for substate-level measures analysis. 5) Received a new renewal of the conference grant award to support 2016-2020 WestON meetings under a collaboration-focused NIOSH PAR. 6) The 9th Annual Western States Occupational Network (WestON) Meeting was convened to support western states and academic centers on September 29-30, 2016 in Denver, CO. 7) The 5th Annual Southeastern States Occupational Network (SouthON) Meeting was convened on March 8-9 2016 in New Orleans. This is the first meeting to be convened under the newly received NIOSH conference award for CSTE to support 2016-2020 SouthON meetings. 8) Collaborated with the Association of Occupational and Environmental Clinics (AOEC) Occupational Health Internship Program (OHIP) to fund two students for a nine-week summer internship (June-August 2016) in occupational health. 9) The OH Subcommittee submitted comments via the CSTE vote on the HL7 CDA R2 Implementations Guide for Public Health Case Reporting Ballot. Comments were discussed at the HL7 meeting in January 2016 and addressed through the weekly HL7 PHER Workgroup calls. Occupation is a minimum data element for electronic initial case reporting, and industry and other work-related variables will be considered in the future. 10) Distributed a press release in May supporting OSHA's new rule on tracking workplace injuries and illnesses. 11) Authored a letter to the American College of Surgeons who administers the National Trauma Data Standard to call for the reinsertion of Workers' Compensation as a payer source field option. 12) Authored a letter to CDC/NCHS regarding the redesign of the injury module questions in the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), which included a proposal to remove key questions related to injury and occupational health (OH) surveillance in consultation with NCHS and NIOSH. 13) Continued discussions, progress, and follow-up with CDC, NIOSH and BLS regarding 2014 CSTE position statement 14-OH-02, Inclusion of Work Information Elements in CDC Surveillance Systems, and 14-OH-01, Access to Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries Case-Level Data for Public Health Purposes. 14) Convened an OH Workgroup Meeting on April 18-19 in DC on "The Role of the State and Local Public Health Programs in a 21st Century Surveillance System for Occupational Safety and Health" with representatives from 12 states, NIOSH, BLS, and OSHA. 15) Hosted the 7th Annual National Disaster Epidemiology Workshop in collaboration with CDC, the National Association for County and City Health Officials (NACCHO), and the Safe States Alliance. The workshop was focused on the intersection of climate change and disaster epidemiology. 16) The Asthma and Allergy Workgroup convened the second CSTE Pollen Summit in Atlanta, GA on February 17-18 2016 17) The Asthma and Allergy Workgroup launched an assessment in January 2016 to identify state and local health agencies that are performing pollen counts. 18) Partnered with CDC to host three disaster epidemiology regional trainings within the past year which trained over 220 people. The trainings were held in Bloomington, IL (November 2015), Lexington, KY (March 2016), and Phoenix, AZ (April 2016). 19) The Heat Syndrome Workgroup recently submitted a manuscript titled Evaluation of a novel syndromic surveillance query for heat-related illness using hospital data from Maricopa County, Arizona to Public Health Reports. This workgroup also recently finalized a guidance document on implementing heat-related illness syndromic surveillance in public health practice. 20) Convened a workgroup to conduct an assessment to describe the current implementation of Electronic Death Registration Systems (EDRS) in states and jurisdictions through documenting the organizational structure, relationship, and interaction between epidemiology, disaster preparedness staff, vital registrars, and death certifiers (providers, medical examiners, coroners) in each state and jurisdiction. 21) Convened a workgroup to develop a guidance document for using syndromic surveillance systems for climate-related illness/conditions/deaths. 22) 2016 CSTE Position Statements: 16-EH-01 "Developing a National Aeroallergen Tracking Network" 16-EH-02 "Standard Measures to Identify and Track Racial Disparities in Childhood Asthma" 23) Hosted preconference workshops at the 2016 CSTE Annual Conference: Climate and Public Health: An Interdisciplinary One Health Approach with a focus on Alaska The Reality of Working in Occupational Health and Safety Surveillance 24) Developed and convened webinars to support environmental and occupational health epidemiology: Utilizing Syndromic Surveillance to Monitor Carbon Monoxide Exposures/Poisonings Following Weather Related Events on December 1 Overview of the US Global Change Research Program Climate and Health Assessment EPA's Environmental Justice Research Roadmap and Interagency Efforts on Climate Justice Public Health and Behavioral Health Response to a Mass Shooting |
| Form 990 Part III Line 4d (continued) | D) Infectious Disease Epidemiology Steering Committee 1) Coordinated Ebola and Zika response activities among CSTE members with CDC and other partners. 2) Supported 33 deployments of epidemiologists to West Africa from August 2015 through December 2016 (expected) for a total of 1,520 deployment days. 3) CSTE will support at least five deployments to Puerto Rico for Zika response efforts through 2016. Additional deployments are expected to continue in 2017. 4) Continued as co-chair for the Council for Improvement of Foodborne Outbreak Response (CIFOR). 5) Administered CIFOR Guidelines and Toolkit implementation training grants to 15 jurisdictions in 2016. 6) Convened CIFOR workgroup to develop guidance for foodborne illness complaint-based systems. 7) Partnering with CDC and APHL to host joint PulseNet/OutbreakNet Regional Meetings in 2016-2017. These regional meetings provide a platform for exchanging knowledge and expertise on emerging topics such as advanced molecular detection (AMD), discussing surveillance for, detection of, and response to enteric diseases and building collaborations. 8) Provided 20 SAS e-learning training courses to HIV/AIDS surveillance coordinators and conducted one peer-to-peer consultation for a new HIV surveillance coordinator. 9) Supported an in-person meeting to update the National Association of Public Health Veterinarians (NASPHV) Animal Contact Compendium, with a pre-meeting scoping session to discuss guidance for non-traditional pets. 10) In collaboration with CDC, established a network of STD Surveillance Coordinators that meet quarterly by phone, and convened an in-person meeting of the STD Surveillance Coordinators at the 2016 STD Prevention Conference in Atlanta, GA. 11) Expanded the scope of the CSTE Influenza and Viral Respiratory Diseases Subcommittee (formerly CSTE Influenza Subcommittee) to address existing and emerging viral respiratory diseases of public health concern. 12) Continued to support influenza surveillance at multiple sites through three projects: the Influenza Hospitalization Surveillance Project (IHSP), Influenza Incidence Surveillance Project (IISP), and Severe Acute Respiratory Infections (SARI) project. 13) Continued to promote One Health initiatives and zoonotic disease education in five sites through a second phase of the Influenza Education Among Youth in Agriculture Pilot Project. 14) Partnered with the Minnesota Department of Health - Public Health Laboratory to develop and expand viral genome sequencing through the Advanced Molecular Detection (AMD) and Response to Infectious Disease Outbreaks Initiative for more accurate, timely and comprehensive diagnostic testing for respiratory viruses. 15) Led several international influenza surveillance reviews through deployment of CSTE consultants to locations including Tanzania, Uganda, and Mexico. 16) Continued to serve as a project partner in Flu on Call , a CDC led initiative to establish a national network of triage lines in the event of a severe influenza pandemic, using existing networks and infrastructure. 17) Convened three workgroups to focus on specific areas of interest related to influenza and respiratory disease surveillance: Influenza and ILI Surveillance Methods, RSV Surveillance, and Novel Influenza Planning. 18) CSTE, in partnership with ASTHO and funded by CDC, established the Council for Outbreak Response: Healthcare-Associated Infections and Antibiotic Resistant Pathogens to improve practices and policies at the local, state and national levels for detection, investigation, control and prevention of HAI/AR outbreaks across the healthcare continuum. 19) Developed the CDC/CSTE Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Taskforce to identify, develop, and put into practice scientific, technical, and policy solutions needed to strengthen AR surveillance in the United States. 20) Developed the drug diversion workgroup to address current issues and possible solutions regarding a data drive public health response to drug diversion incidents. 21) Developed the Assessment of HAI Resources and Capacity: Infection Prevention and Drug Diversion to better understand healthcare-associated infection (HAI) programs' infection prevention and control and drug diversion investigation resources, capacity, and experience. 22) Conducted the CRE Surveillance Assessment to determine the status of surveillance for Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) within states. 23) Submitted formal feedback regarding: Comment on the Proposed Rule: End-Stage Renal Disease Prospective Payment System and Quality Incentive Program [CMS-1651-P] The Hepatitis C Subcommittee responded to a stakeholder request for information (RFI) on updating the Viral Hepatitis Action Plan CDC-2016-0068 Proposed Quarantine Rule: Control of Communicable Diseases 24) 2016 CSTE Position Statements: 16-ID-01 "Zika Virus Disease and Zika Virus Infection Without Disease, Including Congenital Infections Case Definitions and Addition to the Nationally Notifiable Diseases List" 16-ID-02 "Standardized Surveillance Case Definition for Histoplasmosis" 16-ID-03 "Public Health Reporting and National Notification for Salmonellosis (Non-typhoidal)" 16-ID-04 "Public Health Reporting and National Notification for Shigellosis" 16-ID-05 "Public Health Reporting and National Notification for Vibriosis" 16-ID-06 "Public Health Reporting and National Notification of Perinatal Hepatitis B Virus Infection" 16-ID-08 "Revision of the Standardized Case Definition for Invasive Pneumococcal (Streptococcus pneumoniae) Disease or IPD" 16-ID-09 "Interfacility Communication to Prevent and Control Healthcare-Associated Infections and Antimicrobial Resistant Pathogens across Healthcare Settings" 16-ID-10 "A Modification of the Exposure Criteria Used as Part of the Case Definition to Help Classify Cases of Lyme Disease" 16-ID-11 "Revision of the Standardized Case Definition for Tularemia (Francisella tularensis)" 16-ID-12 "Public Health Reporting and Standardized Surveillance for Free-living Amebae Infections, including Acanthamoeba Disease, Balamuthia mandrillaris Disease, and Naegleria fowleri Causing Primary Amebic Meningoencephalitis" 25) Hosted preconference workshops at the 2016 CSTE Annual Conference: National Association of State Public Health Veterinarians (NASPHV) Annual Business Meeting Improving Food Safety through Advanced Molecular Detection: Update on Whole Genome Sequencing's Role in Foodborne Disease Outbreak Investigations Palantir System for Enteric Disease Response, Investigation, and Coordination (SEDRIC) Training National Meeting of Influenza Surveillance Coordinators Healthcare Associated Infections (HAI) Prevention Workshop 26) Developed and convened webinars to improve infectious disease epidemiology capacity: Dengue in the United States: Where are we and what's next? Tick Ecology for Epidemiologists Protecting Public Health by Limiting Influenza A Virus Spread In Pigs at Agriculture Fairs CIFOR Guidelines and Toolkit Implementation Webinar for Decision Makers CIFOR Guidelines and Toolkit Implementation Webinar for Public Health Professionals E) Surveillance and Informatics Steering Commit 1) Hosted the 2015 CSTE Surveillance Summit in November 2015 to strengthen CDC and CSTE collaboration and partnership to advance surveillance initiatives, to identify future strategies and collaborations to further those initiatives, and to identify and prioritize actions for CSTE and partners to advance electronic case reporting (eCR). 2) Continued partnership with CDC and the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) to support the NNDSS Modernization Initiative technical assistance (TA) project. Developed evaluation tools to determine effectiveness of technical assistance and to measure the costs to implement updated message mapping guides (MMGs). Presented evaluation plan and preliminary cost/effort data at the 2016 Public Health Informatics Conference. 3) Supported CDC MMG development through CSTE-hosted webinars and comments. 4) Continued the activities of the CSTE electronic initial case report (eICR) Task Force to identify and define the minimum data elements to be included in an eICR message sent from an electronic health record (EHR) system to public health. 5) Supported the development and balloting of the HL7 CDA R2 Implementation Guide: Public Health Case Report, Release 2. Commented and voted on that ballot, and subsequently helped reconcile comments and finalize the guide. HL7 utilized the recommendations developed by the CSTE electronic initial case report (eICR) Task Force from August 2015 that identified and defined the minimum data elements to be included in an eICR message sent from an electronic health record (EHR) system to public health. |
| Form 990 Part III Line 4d (continued) | 6) Completed Phase II of the Reportable Conditions Knowledge Management System (RCKMS) Project, which included building a knowledge repository for public health and reporters to access information on reporting specifications and a decision support tool to determine the reportability of Partnered with HLN Consulting to develop an initial release of the RCKMS decision support tool and jurisdictional user-facing authoring interface. Demonstrated the tool at the 2016 CSTE Annual Conference and conducted an RCKMS Focus Group at the 2016 Public Health Informatics Conference in August 2016. Through a partnership with APHL, deployed the RCKMS decision support tool on the AIMS Platform. Finalized the first round of default content development and vetting for 74 notifiable conditions by translating jurisdiction reporting specifications into machine-processable formats to be used by the RCKMS decision support tool. Default content consists of reporting criteria, rules logic, and value sets, and was pre-populated into authoring interface. 7) Supported the International Society for Disease Surveillance (ISDS) efforts to develop ICD-9 to ICD-10 codeset consensus mappings in order to assist public health in converting between ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-CM. 8) Partnered with National Association for Public Health Statistics and Information Systems (NAPHSIS) to develop an electronic assessment of the feasibility and utility of electronic death registration systems (EDRS) for surveillance from epidemiology and vital statistics perspectives. 9) Conducted the 2015 State Reportable Conditions Assessment (SRCA) with 100% response rate. Pilot tested the 2016 SRCA in order to launch nationwide in winter 2016/2017. 10) Submitted formal feedback to HHS on the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for the Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects (Common Rule). 11) Developed documentation of common steps and definitions for establishing electronic laboratory reporting (ELR) and onboarding ELR partners. 12) 2016 Position Statements: 16-SI-01: Surveillance Indicators for Substance Abuse and Mental Health 16-SI-02: Electronic Case Reporting (eCR) 16-SI-03: Veterans Health Administration Reporting of Diseases, Conditions, and Outbreaks to Local and State Public Health Authorities 13) Hosted preconference workshops at the 2016 CSTE Annual Conference: Electronic Case Reporting: The Surveillance Gold Rush 14) Supported liaison activities, including the Joint Public Health Informatics Institute (JPHIT), the Digital Bridge, the National Electronic Disease Surveillance System (NEDSS) Base System User Group, the BioSense Governance Group, NAPHSIS, ISDS, the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) Informatics Directors Peer Network, HL7 International, and ASTHO's Public Health Community Platform Interim Executive Committee. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section A, line 6 | The organization has active memberships and associate memberships for persons engaged in the practice of epidemiology. Persons currently enrolled full time in an undergraduate or graduate program who are actively pursuing a degree in public health or related field are eligible for student membership. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section A, line 7a | The election of the Executive Board, position statements that do not affect state or territorial public health law, and other similar matters as specified in the Bylaws or designated by the Executive Board shall be determined by a vote of the Active Members by electronic ballot at a time before the Annual Meeting or as designated by the Executive Board. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section A, line 7b | Official Council decisions, such as position statements that affect public health law, are made by vote with only one vote per state or territory cast by the State Epidemiologist or an official active member representative from the state or territory designated by the State Epidemiologist. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 11 | The final 990 with all schedules is mailed to the Secretary/Treasurer eight days before it is filed. The Secretary/Treasurer has a full week to review. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 12c | Policy requires immediate notification of conflicts and we have annual acknowledgement that all has been disclosed. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 15 | Every three to five years an independent contractor is hired to do a salary and wage review. Copies of the report are given to the Executive Board to use as a tool for setting the Executive Director's salary, and a copy is given to the Executive Director for setting the employees' salaries. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section C, line 19 | Some information is posted on the CSTE website for the general public to access. Some information is posted on the CSTE website for member access only. Any information that a requestor could not access themselves, upon request, is provided either by email, fax or mail. |
| Form 990, Part XI, line 9: | Refunded Grants paid in prior years 16,242. |
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