="font-size: 130%;">Meetings: 1st Wednesdays every other month - duration 1 hour - 11am PST; 2pm EST

 

2024 Open Forum Presentations

4/3/24
Best Practices in Data Completeness for RVCT Variables
 
Video recording Link:  

During this session, a presenter from Nevada’s TB program will provide an overview of how their state program tracks the 2020 version 3 RVCT variables and how they attempt to get variables completed in a timely manner.  We will also have a second presenter from the CDC’s Division of TB Elimination who will provide an overview of how to accurately report on the RVCT information regarding reportable/countable cases and risk factors (which include occupation and industry and some of the new risk factors).  This overview will help address gaps participants may have when reporting this information.

 

12/6/23

The Use of Social Media and How to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Individual Programs

Video recording Link: https://centersfordiseasecontrol.sharefile.com/d-s4fd81eba51464cf6b12d2ae36d3c5b9f
Recording Transcript: https://centersfordiseasecontrol.sharefile.com/d-s758f4db14a984f43934518606e230ee4 

 

Description: The use of social media is increasing among individuals and organizations. Social media can be a powerful tool for sharing health communications campaigns, promoting awareness, and disseminating valuable information regarding a program’s efforts. During this session, presenters will share the methods they’ve used to access and evaluate various public health social media campaigns.   They will also share best practices and any barriers they’ve encountered.

Presenters:

Kevin Crooks, MPH 

Health Communications Specialist

Division of HIV Prevention
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

 

Fernando Beltran

Chief Executive Officer

Identika, LLC

 

Sondra Dietz, MPH, MA

Research and Communications Specialist

Arlington County Public Health Division

Community Health Protection Bureau

 

 

6/07/2023 

Transitioning Focus from One Indicator to Another

Video recording Link: https://centersfordiseasecontrol.sharefile.com/d-sba806695c9c5471fb5f1a4362bc29ca1
Recording Transcript: https://centersfordiseasecontrol.sharefile.com/d-s8733b35251284b8ebd3f261a859771aa

Description: Kentucky’s program staff proudly shares their experience developing a program evaluation plan and how they exceeded a national TB indicator and transitioned to focusing on a new indicator for their PE Plan.

Presenter:

Charlie Rhea, MPH 

• Former full-time Epidemiologist for KY TB Program 2018-2022, currently part-time EPI as he completes his doctoral program at Vanderbilt University.

  Former KY PE Focal Point

  Former Board member of NTCA/Society of Epidemiology in TB Control

 

 

2/01/2023

Evaluation in Practice: Measuring TB Campaign Impact  

Presentation Link:  https://centersfordiseasecontrol.sharefile.com/d-sabc737aa72ac402e940ec988f762f95b

 

Description: Members of the Northern Virginia TB Elimination Taskforce share the evaluation of their community engagement initiatives which resulted in the creation of a community engagement toolkit. The team will share their approach, lessons learned, and recommendations for TB Programs. 

Presenters:

Emily Astorga 

Public Health Nurse Senior
Alexandria Health Department

 

 

Sondra Dietz
Research and Communications Specialist
Arlington County Public Health Division

2022 Open Forum Presentations

 

12/7/2022 

Michigan’s Experiences Using Incentives & Enablers 

Presentation Link:  https://centersfordiseasecontrol.sharefile.com/d-sa65df10132f74d4ea0f26bad301aa2fc

 

 Description: Presenters share their experiences implementing program incentives and enablers in Michigan's TB program. 

Presenters:

Peter Davidson, Ph.D.
Tuberculosis Control Program Manager
Communicable Disease Division
Michigan Department of Health and Human Services

Claire Berlin, MPH

Tuberculosis Public Health Consultant

Michigan Department of Health Human Services

 

 

 

10/5/2022 
Implementing and Improving Targeted Testing and Treatment: LTBI Presentations by State and City TB Programs 

Presentation Link:  https://centersfordiseasecontrol.sharefile.com/d-s1df3c8a239ad4fdf8cc5ac6dac75b372

 

Description: Presenters share the successes, barriers, and lessons learned from the targeted testing activities implemented within their jurisdictions.

Presenters:
Emily A. Anderson, BSN, RN
TB Controller/Program Manager
Division of Epidemiology and Health Planning
Kentucky Department for Public Health

Co-Presenting:
Jane C. Tingley,
Latent Tuberculosis Infection Epidemiologist
Division of Clinical Epidemiology
Virginia Dept. of Health
&
Amanda Khalil, MPH, BSN, CIC 
Nurse Consultant
Division of Clinical Epidemiology
Virginia Department of Health 

 

 

8/3/2022
Practical Evaluation:  Getting Big Returns on A Modest Investment in M&E

 

Presentation Link:  https://centersfordiseasecontrol.sharefile.com/d-sd256fe0288444d97b3da5745e3f17bdf

Description: 

Many people fear evaluation (and -planning) because they set a gold-standard high bar for these processes and assume that nothing short of that will do any good. In reality, evaluation (and planning) are ways of THINKING about your efforts and how to improve them, and not a single designated magic formula.  The approach and the level of rigor required vary with every situation, and so often, a little bit goes a long way. AND/OR the earliest steps in the evaluation process can yield the most benefit.  

In this session, Tom Chapel, CDC’s former Chief Evaluation Officer, will introduce some key principles—based on steps in CDC’s Evaluation Framework---to help you right-size your approach to evaluation.  Doing so means you’re more likely to take the “leap” into evaluation, see it as something you can do or oversee competently, and, most importantly, ensure that the time spent pays off in insights you can use to make your program more effective.

 

Presenter Tom Chapel was CDC’s first Chief Evaluation Officer from 2011 until his (semi) retirement in 2020. But even before that---since 2001-- he was helping CDC programs and partners build their capacity to do better evaluation, performance measurement, and strategic planning from various perches within CDC’s Office of the Director. And before that as a Vice President at Macro International (now ICF) since the late 1980s. Tom was involved in planning, performance measurement, and evaluation issues at the national level as well. A popular keynote speaker, facilitator, and trainer nationally, Tom was a Board member of the American Evaluation Association, where he also won the Myrdal Government Evaluation Award in 2013. In retirement, Tom continues his evaluation and planning work as a guest researcher at CDC, a Fellow at the CDC Foundation, and as a prob-bono consultant for dozens of nonprofit organizations. 

 

2018 Presentations

 

February  7 -- Using Genotyping in proactive surveillance, whole genome sequencing.  Overview by CDC and then a State's example of use of genotyping in surveillance.

                         Presentation- Whole-genome sequencing for investigation of recent TB transmission in the US: Current uses and future plans

                         Sarah Talarico, PhD and Benjamin Silk, PhD; Surveillance, Epi, and Outbreak Investigations Branch

                         WGS and TB Training.pdf

 

 

2017 Presentations

April 5th Presentation:

A Novel Assessment of Patients’ Knowledge and Priorities Regarding LTBI Treatment Initiation and Completion

 

June 14th Presentations:

Linelist Presentation 20170614.pdf

TB PEN Line List Example_6.14.17.pdf

 

August 10th Presentations:  ETN TB Education and Training Projects: Updates from the Field Webinar

 

• San Diego's TB Prevention Outreach Campaign - Presentation
• 3HP in Mississippi - A Way to Do It - Presentation

Archived Webinar: http://cc.readytalk.com/play?id=2r519k

 

 

October 4th Presentation:

• Dr. Kimberly Carter will be presenting her paper, 'Improved Latent Tuberculosis Therapy Completion Rates in Refugee Patients Through Use of a Clinical Pharmacist' TB PEN Presentation 10.4.17_SLIDES.ppt

 

December 7, 2017 Presentation:  1-2pm Eastern Time 

• Joint with ETN on LTBI Surveillance and Reporting, Andy Tibbs, Epidemiologist for Massachusetts   This webinar will be recorded and archived for those that can't make the live event. For your convenience, a link to the recording will be cross-posted here soon.

 

Focal Point Call Notes