Northwestern-led researchers unveil data dashboard that aims to spot COVID-19 surges faster
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Lori Post, director of the Buehler Center for Health Policy and Economics at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, at home on Dec. 2, 2020, in Chicago. Photo credit: Erin Hooley / Chicago Tribune
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"A Northwestern University-based research team has unveiled an online COVID-19 data dashboard that aims to show more quickly where infections are surging in states and across the world.
The dashboard joins scores of others related to the pandemic that are hosted by governments, news media, nonprofits and universities. This one crunches the data in a new way that its creators say can flag surges faster and more precisely, before they become overwhelming."--Chicago Tribune
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JMIR Publications | Original paper:
Dynamic Public Health Surveillance to Track and Mitigate the US COVID-19 Epidemic: Longitudinal Trend Analysis Study
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By Lori Ann Post, PhD ; Salem T Argaw, BA ; Cameron Jones, MPH, MD ; Charles B Moss, PhD ; Danielle Resnick, PhD ; Lauren Nadya Singh, MPH ; Robert Leo Murphy, MD ; Chad J Achenbach, MD ; Janine White, MSc ; Tariq Ziad Issa, BA ; Michael J Boctor, BSc ; James Francis Oehmke, PhD
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" The aim of this study is to develop dynamic metrics for public health surveillance that can inform worldwide COVID-19 prevention efforts. Advanced surveillance techniques are essential to inform public health decision making and to identify where and when corrective action is required to prevent outbreaks." -- JMIR Publication
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JMIR Publications | Original research:
A SARS-CoV-2 Surveillance System in Sub-Saharan Africa: Modeling Study for Persistence and Transmission to Inform Policy
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By Lori Ann Post, PhD ; Tariq Ziad Issa, BA ; Michael J Boctor, BSc ; Charles B Moss, PhD ; Robert L Murphy, MD ; Michael G Ison, MSc, MD ; Chad J Achenbach, MPH, MD ; Danielle Resnick, PhD ; Lauren Nadya Singh, MPH ; Janine White, MSc ; Joshua Marco Mitchell Faber, BA ; Kasen Culler, BSc ; Cynthia A Brandt7, MPH, MD ; James Francis Oehmke, PhD
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"The goal of this study is to improve infectious disease surveillance by complementing standardized metrics with new and decomposable surveillance metrics of COVID-19 that overcome data limitations and contamination inherent in public health surveillance systems. In addition to prevalence of observed daily and cumulative testing, testing positivity rates, morbidity, and mortality, we derived COVID-19 transmission in terms of speed, acceleration or deceleration, change in acceleration or deceleration (jerk), and 7-day transmission rate persistence, which explains where and how rapidly COVID-19 is transmitting and quantifies shifts in the rate of acceleration or deceleration to inform policies to mitigate and prevent COVID-19 and food insecurity in SSA." -- JMIR Publication
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WBEZ | Politics:
Experts Say It’s Too Soon To Predict Illinois’ Post-Thanksgiving COVID-19 Surge
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"Lori Post is a professor of emergency medicine at Northwestern University who closely surveils COVID-19 data. She is expecting a “God awful” upward spike in cases about a week from now. There’s quite a few risk factors at play as the pandemic is accelerating all across the country." -- WBEZ
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U.S. News & World Report | Commentary:
Why Community Engagement Is Key to Researching and Preventing Violence
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"To understand and mitigate violence, we need to partner with the people whose lives are affected by it." -- U.S. News & World Report
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Health Economist - The Department of Emergency Medicine and the Buehler Center for Health Policy and Economics at the Feinberg School of Medicine of Northwestern University are seeking a full-time Investigator at the rank of tenured Associate or Full Professor to begin as soon as possible.
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Temporary Research Coordinator - The Buehler Center for Health Policy and Economics is seeking to hire a Research Coordinator (RC) to assist with projects related to public health policy, surveillance, and injury.
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