The presentation focuses on TB Molecular Drug Susceptibility Data. This session will provide an overview of CDC’s Molecular Detection of Drug Resistance (MDDR) services, explain how to accurately capture molecular results in the RVCT, clarify data entry expectations, and describe how these data relate to NTIP goals and program evaluation/performance.
Presenters:
Angela Starks, PhD Chief, Laboratory Branch Division of Tuberculosis and Elimination Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Janná Murray, MS, MPH Senior Microbiologist, Laboratory Branch Division of Tuberculosis and Elimination Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Laura Young, MPH, CIC Tuberculosis Epidemiologist
Division of Clinical Epidemiology Virginia Department of Health
Sandy Price, BAM, BIT
Statistician
Division of Tuberculosis Elimination
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
4/1/26
TB Testing Strategies for Persons Experiencing Homelessness: Implementation, Partnerships, and Lessons Learned Click here for Recording Link
Description:
This session will:
Describe the strategies, and processes used to conduct TB testing among people experiencing homelessness, including the use of mobile health units and on-site testing within shelters and other settings.
Highlight collaborative partnerships among public health agencies and key internal and external partners, and explain how these partnerships support outreach, testing, and follow-up care.
Evaluate the effectiveness of testing approaches presented, including successes, challenges, and lessons learned.
Presenters:
Lauren Miller, MPH
Epidemiologist IITuberculosis Program
Georgia Department of Public Health
Benjamin Yarn, B.B.A
Director, Tuberculosis Program
Medical and Clinical Services Georgia Department of Public Health
Sophia Hsu RN, MSN, MPH
CDR, U.S. Public Health Service
Nurse Epidemiologist/Public Health Advisor
CDC | Division of TB Elimination
LA County Department of Public Health, TB Control Program
Nikola Strakova Lloyd, MPH
TB Response Lead Epidemiologist
Division of Global Populations and Infectious Disease Prevention
Bureau of Infectious Disease and Laboratory Sciences
Massachusetts Department of Public Health
Michael Boyer, MS
Lead Refugee & Immigrant Health Epidemiologist
Division of Global Populations and Infectious Disease Prevention
Bureau of Infectious Disease & Laboratory Sciences
The presentations will focus on the management of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) as a reportable condition. The presentations will describe:
How the Program Obtains LTBI Information: An in-depth description of the methods and processes used to gather LTBI data, including the types of information collected.
Surveillance and Data Collection Systems: An overview of the systems utilized for surveillance and data collection from various partners, ensuring comprehensive and accurate data management.
Collaboration with Partners: A detailed explanation of how the program collaborates with both private and public partners to obtain LTBI information, highlighting the importance of these partnerships in effective
2025 Open Forum Presentations
8/6/25
Approaches and Ideas for LTBI Targeted Testing (TT)
Description: In this session, presenters will share their program's targeted testing activities. The presentations will cover targeted testing initiatives among individuals experiencing homelessness, as well as activities conducted in shelter facilities and various community settings. The presenters will highlight the methods they used to identify their target population and will share their approaches to conducting targeted testing with limited resources. This session aims to provide valuable insights and practical strategies that may benefit other programs.
Presenters:
Micah Nicole King, M.S.
Communicable Disease Supervisor
Office of Disease Surveillance
Southern Nevada Health District
Teresa Mark, MPH
Director of Outreach
New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Bureau of Tuberculosis Control
Jeanne Sullivan Meissner, MPH Director of Epidemiology New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Bureau of Tuberculosis Control
6/4/25
Using Power BI for Data Quality Assurance and Visualization
Description: In this session, Sandy Price, a Statistician from the Division of TB Elimination, will explain how TB programs can use Power BI for data quality assurance. Sandy will also demonstrate how to view and download data in NTSS using Power BI and its application for data visualization.
Presenter:
Sandy Price, BAM, BIT
Statistician Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Description: In this session, presenters will share how their TB program uses incentives and enablers and highlight how they are used in program evaluation activities.
Presenters:
Emily Goodwin, MPH
Epidemiologist II
Kentucky Department for Public Health
Division of Epidemiology and Health Planning
Tuberculosis Prevention and Control Program
Emily A. Anderson, BSN, RN
TB Program Controller/Manager
Kentucky Department for Public Health
Division of Epidemiology and Health Planning (EPI)
Ana Delia Hernandez, LMFT, PsyD
Research Analyst II
Los Angeles County Department of Public Health
2024 Open Forum Presentations
12/4/24
Data Communication and Storytelling for Health Promotion
Description:As public health professionals, data is at the core of much of our work. When it comes to communicating data, is your message getting through? Effective data communication can improve understanding, deepen trust, and move communities to take action. Creating understandable, accessible, and actionable data visualizations is a critical skill for public health professionals. Join Caroline Hoffman, MPH, to learn about effective data visualization and storytelling with data from a communications professional. Topics will include: Tips and tricks for creating data visualizations; tailoring content for your audience; best practices for storytelling with data; and using data visualizations to humanize and simplify complex public health information.
Presenter:
Caroline Hoffman, MPH
Environmental Health Communications Manager, RIDOH
10/2/24
Release of the 2030 National TB Performance Targets
*Note. There is no link to a video recording for this presentation
Description: In this session, CDC’s Division of TB Elimination Health Scientist Erin Thomas will discuss the updates to the 2020 National TB Performance Targets. The presenter will share background information regarding the national TB performance targets, the method used to update the performance targets, and release of the 2030 targets.
Presenter:
Erin Thomas, PhD
Program Evaluation and Health Economics Team
Data Management, Statistics, and Evaluation Branch
Description: In this session, CDC’s Division of TB Elimination Health Scientist Eva Trinh will discuss the National TB Indicators Project (NTIP). The presenter will share background information regarding the development of NTIP, provide a general overview of the type of information included within NTIP, and conduct a question-and-answer session addressing the questions that our TB PEN members have submitted.
Presenter:
Eva Trinh, PhD, MPH
Program Evaluation and Health Economics Team
Data Management, Statistics, and Evaluation Branch
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
6/5/24
NYC ‘s Bureau of TB Control Disease Investigation and Case Management Team Addresses Increase in TB Cases in 2023
Description: In this session, a presenter from the New York City’s Bureau of TB Control Disease Investigation and Case Management (DICM) Team will share how their team identified and addressed an increase in TB cases in 2023. Their efforts included TB patient education, treatment support, contact investigations, and the use of electronic directly observed therapy. The presenter will share the details of their efforts, barriers, outcomes, and lessons learned.
Presenters:
Christine Chuck, MPA
Director, Disease Investigation & Case Management
Bureau of Tuberculosis Control
New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Description: 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.
Presenters:
Robert Pratt
Data Scientist
Surveillance Team, SEOIB Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Susan McElhany
Nevada Division of Public and Behavioral Health
Tuberculosis Program
2023 Open Forum Presentations
12/6/23
The Use of Social Media and How to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Individual Programs
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
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
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
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
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 7thPresentation: 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
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
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.
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Justina Novak said
at 1:17 pm on Feb 2, 2017
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