Maine Environmental Public Health (EPH)
Tracking System
Agenda
June 11, 2003, 8:30AM-3:00PM
Senator Inn, Augusta
8:30-9:00 AM: Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00-9:15 AM: Welcome & Introductions, Philip Haines, DrPH, Deputy Director, BOH
9:15-10:30 AM: Origins of and Vision for Environmental Public Health Tracking
▪ Toward a National EPH Tracking System
Environmental Public Health Tracking from the PEW Commission Report to federal legislation establishing a National Initiative and Program at the CDC
Speaker – Thomas Burke, PhD, MPH, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
▪ A Vision for a Maine EPH Tracking System
Use of a case example(s) to illustrate the promise and challenges in the development of a standards-based, coordinated, and integrated Public Health Tracking System for Maine.
Speaker – Andrew Smith, SM, ScD, State Toxicologist, Maine Bureau of Health
▪ Respiratory Health Indicators for Maine
American Lung Association of Maine’s efforts to assemble a data warehouse to be used as Respiratory Health Indicators for Maine
Speaker – Norman Anderson, MSPH, American Lung Association of Maine
10:30-10:45 AM: Break
10:45-12:00 PM: Update of EPH Tracking Underway in Maine
▪ Toward an Integrated Public Health Information System for Maine
Plans for development of an Integrated Public Health Information system for the Maine Bureau of Health – a likely home for an Environmental Public Health Tracking System
Speaker – Paul Kuehnert, MS, RN, Director, Division of Disease Control, Bureau of Health
▪ Maine’s Grant to Develop Plans and Components of a EPH Tracking System
Maine’s required activities as a recipient of a U.S. CDC award for developing plans and components of a environmental public health tracking system, and activities to date.
Speaker – Andrew Smith, SM, ScD, State Toxicologist, Bureau of Health
▪ Feedback on Needs and Concerns RE: Environmental Public Health Surveillance
Participants will have an opportunity to ask questions of presenters.
Moderator – Lani Graham, MD, MPH, former State Health Officer and BOH Director
12:00-1:00 PM: Lunch with Talk
Buffet Luncheon, followed by a presentation from 12:30 – 1:00PM on Maine’s Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program, as an example of an established environmental public health surveillance program.
Speaker - Kathy Tippy, MPH, Epidemiologist, University of Southern Maine
1:00-1:40 PM: Potential Role(s) of a Planning Consortium
We will share our thoughts on how best to utilize your individual expertise followed by participant input on your perceived role.
Moderator - Lani Graham, MD, MPH, former State Health Officer and BOH Director
1:40-2:00 PM: Meeting Wrap-Up
2:00-3:00 PM: Informal Discussions with Refreshments (Optional)
