The Black Canyon Forecast Station: Experiences And Lessons Learned

Authors

  • James M. Wilson Black Canyon Forecast Station, Delta, CO; Delta County Memorial Hospital, Delta, CO
  • Bonnie Koehler Delta County Health and Human Services, Delta, CO
  • Kathleen Sramek Delta County Memorial Hospital, Delta, CO
  • Treve Henwood Delta County Memorial Hospital, Delta, CO

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5210/ojphi.v5i1.4428

Abstract

This presentation reviews the experiences of a meteorology-inspired infectious disease forecast station operating within a rural community. The forecast station promoted routine communication of a broader array of infectious disease activity than that monitored by public health; facilitated proactive, cost effective healthcare; and enabled recognition of unusual, disruptive infectious activity with enough time to enable mitigation of clinical, infrastructure, and financial impact to the community. Routine communication of comprehensive infectious disease forecast and situational awareness information promoted community adaptive fitness to a wide variety of infectious hazards.

Author Biography

James M. Wilson, Black Canyon Forecast Station, Delta, CO; Delta County Memorial Hospital, Delta, CO

James Wilson, M.D. has led multiple operations centers and trained nearly 150 analysts in the discipline of operational biosurveillance, having played key operational roles in the detection, warning, or forecast of nearly 250,000 infectious disease events, crises, and disasters in nearly every country of the world including Antarctica. Dr. Wilson played pivotal roles in the recognition and warning of the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic and cholera in Haiti.

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Published

2013-03-23

How to Cite

Wilson, J. M., Koehler, B., Sramek, K., & Henwood, T. (2013). The Black Canyon Forecast Station: Experiences And Lessons Learned. Online Journal of Public Health Informatics, 5(1). https://doi.org/10.5210/ojphi.v5i1.4428

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Oral Presentations: Disease Surveillance Methods