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Hurricane Katrina
Surveillance Experience
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Disaster Surveillance Working Group
(DSWG)
• DSWG established following Hurricane Katrina
• Cross-organizational work group
• Goals:
• Develop standardized surveillance tools
• Collaborate with states to gain consensus and
awareness of tools
• Evaluate tools
• Provide technical resources to states
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Activities to Date
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Available Forms
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External Partners’ Meeting
May 2008
• External Partners:
• State health departments
• CSTE
• American Red Cross
• Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT)
• Requests:
• Ready-to-use Forms
• Multiple settings (e.g., hospital, shelter)
• Multiple formats (e.g., electronic, Excel, Access, EPI Info)
• Bank of questions
• Technical Expertise
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2008 Hurricane Experience
• Hurricane Gustav
• Provided forms to all state health departments
impacted by storm or receiving evacuees
• Received daily aggregate forms from Kentucky
and Arkansas
• Hurricane Ike
• Received multiple requests for surveillance forms
from CDC Public Health Service (PHS) staff
• Surveillance data from Field Medical Stations and
deployed Applied Public Health Teams not shared
with CDC DEOC
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Lessons Learned from 2008
Hurricanes
• Existing relationships extremely helpful
in sharing of data
• Lack of clarity of US PHS deployment
role versus CDC role in response to
hurricane
• Clear need for all deployed teams to
have training and tools to conduct
surveillance
• Medical intake form common request
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Future Activities
• FY09 Budget
• Train all CDC PHS officers on DSWG Tools
• Continue to revise surveillance forms
• Visit state health departments to vet forms
• Address lessons learned during
Hurricanes Gustav and Ike
• Hold after action meeting with Texas
• Continue working with state partners
• Coordinate with US PHS and NDMS to share
surveillance data during a disaster
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Summary
• DSWG Contacts:
Gary Noonan GNoonan@cdc.gov
Amy Wolkin AWolkin@cdc.gov
Rebecca Noe rhn9@cdc.gov
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Thank you
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