Advancing Surveillance of Chronic and Non-Communicable Disease - Path Forward

Authors

  • Elissa R. Weitzman Harvard Medical School; Boston Children's Hospital
  • Nadia Waheed Tufts University School of Medicine; New England Eye Center

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5210/ojphi.v5i1.4579

Abstract

Non-communicable diseases are a major and growing morbidity and mortality burden globally. This roundtable session will discuss key terms and definitions, formulate a rationale for the surveillance of non-communicable diseases and attempt to elicit participant's experiences in the surveillance of these conditions. It will discuss where and how existing surveillance efforts may be exploited in non-communicable disease surveillance and where unique surveillance methods may be needed to establish cost-effective and sustainable methods for longitudinal tracking of non-communicable diseases.

Author Biographies

Elissa R. Weitzman, Harvard Medical School; Boston Children's Hospital

Elissa R. Weitzman, ScD, MSc, is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and Adolescent Medicine at Boston Children's Hospital. She is pioneering new approaches to population health research with a focus on behavioral health and chronic illness problems, including among pediatric cohorts. She leads multiple investigations in which consented patients and consumers participate in health research through online social network and personally controlled health record platforms.

Nadia Waheed, Tufts University School of Medicine; New England Eye Center

Nadia Waheed, MD, MPH is an Assistant Professor at the Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston and the Shifa-Tameer-e-Millat University, Pakistan. She has a Masters in Public Health from Harvard and received clinical training at the Harvard Ophthalmology Program. She subsequently worked at the Cleveland Clinic and in Pakistan prior to joining her current position in Boston. She has a special interest in non-communicable diseases and their morbidity burden in the US and in developing countries.

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Published

2013-03-24

How to Cite

Weitzman, E. R., & Waheed, N. (2013). Advancing Surveillance of Chronic and Non-Communicable Disease - Path Forward. Online Journal of Public Health Informatics, 5(1). https://doi.org/10.5210/ojphi.v5i1.4579

Issue

Vol. 5 No. 1 (2013)

Section

Roundtables

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