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Departments
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newarkliaison
1. Activity: Liaison Program, Newark Department of Health and Human
Services
2. Project leader: Pauline Thomas, MD, Assistant Professor; Thomasp1@umdnj.edu
3. Mission/Vision:
To provide epidemiologic and surveillance expertise to assist
the mission of the Newark Department of Health and Human Services, through direct
assistance with on going projects and collaborative research and demonstration
projects designed and coordinated with the Newark DHHS Health Officer.
4. Staff and faculty participants:
William Halperin, MD, MPH, DrPH, Professor and Chair; halperwe@umdnj.edu
Peter Wenger, MD, Associate Professor; wengerpn@umdnj.edu
Steven Marcus, MD, Professor, Director of NJPIES; marcussm@umdnj.edu
Marian Passannante, PhD, Associate Professor; passanna@umdnj.edu
Lawrence Budnick, MD, Associate Professor, Director, Occupational Medicine
Service; budnicla@umdnj.edu
Nisha Jani, MPH; janini@umdnj.edu
5. Specifics about the activity:
• Faculty from UMDNJ provides technical and planning
assistance to the Newark Health Officer
• Collaborative projects to improve public health
in Newark are designed, and funding is sought, in partnership between the Department
of Preventive Medicine / Community Health, and the Newark Health Department.
• Current activities include:
• Dr. Wenger serves as City Epidemiologist
• Attendance by 2 epidemiologists at weekly NDHHS
Communicable Disease Surveillance meeting, to provide infectious disease and
administrative information and advice
• Assistance with outbreak investigations, including
pre-planning for outbreaks, through design of forms and data base
• Assistance with Emergency Preparedness
• Presentations to health department staff, emergency
response personnel (e.g., police, fire department personnel, local political
officials)
• Administrative strategies
• Newark Metropolitan Medical Response System (MMRS) activities
• Steering Committee
• Surveillance Committee
• Monthly meeting with infection control practitioners (ICPs) from
the five Newark hospitals
• Review of issues concerning hospital infection control, hospital
emergency preparedness, communicable disease reporting, etc.
• Special projects
• Immunizations
• Newark Community Surveys
• Evaluation of WIC lead screening
6. Publications and Presentations:
Poster presentation of joint project between NDHHS and the
ICPs of the five Newark hospitals on communicable disease reporting using the
web-based NJ Communicable Disease Reporting System (CDRS) at the 2004 National
APIC Conference in Phoenix, AZ June 2004.
7. Related web sites:
City of Newark
Epidemiology
Public Health Surveillance
New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services
8. Opportunities for Students:
Drs. Thomas and Wenger have projects available for interested students, available
upon request.
9. Opportunities for volunteers:
None at this time
10. Hidden text and key words:
communicable diseases; community surveys; disease control;
immunizations; infectious diseases; lead screening; public health practice;
public health surveillance; public health surveys; surveillance; vaccine preventable
diseases; WIC programs
Date revised:
3/30/05
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