• The Snowden leaks have caused concern in the U.S. and outrage abroad about the extent of the NSA's surveillance of U.S. citizens and of phone and e-mail records of citizens abroad. (voanews.com)
  • One day after the first Snowden leak exposed the breadth of the NSA's phone metadata program, Sen. Ron Wyden asked the then-Director of National Intelligence if the agency collected data on Americans. (techdirt.com)
  • This Wednesday, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, sitting in Cincinnati, will hear oral argument in ACLU v. NSA , one of the principal cases challenging the legality of the National Security Agency's NSA's "Terrorist Surveillance Program. (blogspot.com)
  • WELNA: What sets the section 702 program apart from the NSA's bulk collection program, says another board member, privacy advocate James Dempsey, is that it was scrutinized on Capitol Hill. (wxpr.org)
  • In a statement Monday, Snowden said, "I acted on my belief that the NSA's mass surveillance programs would not withstand a constitutional challenge, and that the American public deserved a chance to see these issues determined by open courts. (pressenza.com)
  • Title : Active Bacterial Core Surveillance (ABCs) Report Emerging Infections Program Network : Streptococcus pneumoniae, 2018 Corporate Authors(s) : National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (U.S.). Division of Bacterial Diseases. (cdc.gov)
  • Here we describe the voluntary saliva testing program instituted at the University of California, Berkeley during an early period of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in 2020. (nih.gov)
  • Syndromic surveillance is a core surveillance capacity for pandemic preparedness and for the detection of emerging respiratory pathogens or unexpected events related to previously circulating viruses Footnote 1 . (canada.ca)
  • Syndromic surveillance related to illnesses such as severe acute respiratory illness and influenza-like illness (ILI) must be adaptable and ready for escalation in any pandemic Footnote 2 . (canada.ca)
  • In addition to playing a major role in the COVID-19 response efforts at the local, state and national levels during the past two years, infectious disease epidemiologist Melissa Nolan has grown her own research program over the course of the pandemic. (sc.edu)
  • 25 years during the COVID-19 pandemic, CDC used National Syndromic Surveillance Program data to examine changes in ED visits during 2019-2022. (medscape.com)
  • Large increases in cannabis-involved ED visits throughout the COVID-19 pandemic compared with prepandemic surveillance periods in 2019 were identified among persons aged ≤10 years. (medscape.com)
  • Operation of the Philippine Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Program (ARSP) has been affected by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, during which time difficulties in maintaining laboratory functions, staffing levels and participation were reported. (who.int)
  • Surveillance operations were challenged by reallocation of human, infrastructure and financial resources for pandemic response among both the sentinel sites and the coordinating laboratory, the Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Reference Laboratory. (who.int)
  • The impact of operational changes to ARSP due to the pandemic needs to be considered when analysing AMR surveillance data from 2020. (who.int)
  • Automation of data submission, good working relationships between the coordinating laboratory and sentinel sites, and supply chain system strengthening were identified as key to maintaining AMR surveillance during the COVID-19 pandemic. (who.int)
  • The objective of the 2-day workshop was to assist local public health authorities with planning and implementation of effective antimicrobial drug resistance surveillance systems for use in control of antimicrobial resistance. (cdc.gov)
  • FluWatchers is a participatory (crowdsourced) syndromic surveillance system that relies on Canadian volunteers to report symptoms of cough or fever to PHAC on a weekly basis. (canada.ca)
  • ISDS has been a key player in the development of recommendations and position papers on syndromic surveillance meaningful use since 2010. (syndromic.org)
  • Most recently, ISDS released 2012 recommendations for syndromic surveillance meaningful use using inpatient and ambulatory EHR clinical care data. (syndromic.org)
  • In 2010 ISDS, in partnership with NACCHO and the Tufts Health Care Institute, created a free online course that serves as an introduction to syndromic surveillance. (syndromic.org)
  • The International Society for Disease Surveillance (ISDS) worked in partnership with the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the Public Health Informatics Institute (PHII) to improve surveillance for influenza-like illness by developing the Distribute syndromic surveillance project. (syndromic.org)
  • NSSP = National Syndromic Surveillance Program. (medscape.com)
  • It conducted other forms of warrantless surveillance of Muslims, including the monitoring of websites, blogs, and other online forums. (aclu.org)
  • The NYPD's warrantless surveillance of our clients profoundly harmed their religious goals, missions, and practices. (aclu.org)
  • It made legal the previously illegal practice of secret warrantless surveillance that President Bush ordered soon after the 9/11 attacks. (wxpr.org)
  • Data in this report are from the reporting period for the 2020 birth cohort, followed from January 1, 2020-December 31, 2021, and only include infants whose care was managed by the program. (cdc.gov)
  • We describe disruptions to laboratory operations, personnel availability and participation in ARSP surveillance, and their impact on reported data for 2020. (who.int)
  • Admitted to Health Facilities in Sierra level of IPC implementation and identify strengths and challenges in Leone in 2020-2021: Practice Does Not the hospital IPC programs in Sierra Leone. (who.int)
  • Because of differences in the states and jurisdictions participating, not all cases in infants identified as HBsAg positive within the PHBPP are reported to the CDC National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS). (cdc.gov)
  • The secret program was unmasked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden's revelations in 2013 and prompted an outcry among privacy and civil rights activists, as well as lawmakers. (scmagazine.com)
  • This latest assessment of the metadata program highlights once again the significance of Edward Snowden's disclosures. (truthout.org)
  • Section 702 is one of a number of U.S. surveillance authorities that had been the subject of great scrutiny and debate in the aftermath of Edward Snowden's surveillance leaks. (vox.com)
  • When Congress voted the USAFreedom Act into law in June 2015, it also conferred a 180-day transition period to ease the move to a targeted surveillance system that will replace the bulk data collection program exposed in 2013 by Snowden. (scmagazine.com)
  • The Section 215 program Clapper was alluding to - the program exposed in the first Snowden leak - is back in the news, thanks to an unexpected early retirement . (techdirt.com)
  • The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) report further confirms the whistleblower status of former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, who made significant revelations to the media in June 2013 of NSA surveillance programs he reasonably believed to be unconstitutional. (truthout.org)
  • The former contractor for NSA, Edward Snowden, became famous for revealing PRISM, a confidential mass surveillance program run by the U.S. agencies to eavesdrop on any electronic media. (infosecinstitute.com)
  • WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A top-secret court has renewed the authority of U.S. national security officials to collect telephone data as part of an anti-terror surveillance program that was exposed by intelligence leaker Edward Snowden. (fox6now.com)
  • Snowden leaked classified information about the National Security Agency program to media outlets last month and then fled the country. (fox6now.com)
  • Following the Snowden leaks, certain information about telephone collection was declassified 'in order to provide the public with a more thorough and balanced understanding of the program,' a statement from the national intelligence office said. (fox6now.com)
  • Although Verizon was singled out in the Snowden leak on telephone surveillance, it is believed that the government obtains similar orders for other telecommunications providers. (fox6now.com)
  • Matthew Pascual, noncommissioned officer in charge of entomology for Public Health Command-Pacific in Japan, collects mosquito specimens from a surveillance light trap to test for vector-borne pathogens of human concern on Camp Zama, Japan, Feb. 25, 2021 (Photo by: Public Health Command - Pacific). (health.mil)
  • DAVID MEDINE: Overall, the board has found that the information the program collects has been valuable and effective in protecting the national security and producing valuable foreign intelligence information. (wxpr.org)
  • Distribute complemented existing surveillance methods by providing a more comprehensive and detailed situational awareness of geographic and age-specific patterns of influenza-like illness. (syndromic.org)
  • The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) convened Tracking Resistant Organisms: Workshop for Improving State-based Surveillance Programs on April 28-29, 2005, in Atlanta, Georgia. (cdc.gov)
  • For more than 20 years, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has successfully developed, implemented, and maintained a surveillance (monitoring) program for hemophilia to advance our understanding of the condition and the needs of the hemophilia community. (cdc.gov)
  • A guide developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC, 2014) gives an overview of basic and most frequently used data sources needed for surveillance and evaluation in national and state tobacco control programs. (who.int)
  • To characterize asthma surveillance and control programs in public health departments in the United States, during March and April 1996, the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists and CDC conducted a survey of state and territorial epidemiologists. (cdc.gov)
  • Questionnaires were sent to the 54 state and territorial epidemiologists who were asked to identify the appropriate person to respond to questions about asthma programs in the state. (cdc.gov)
  • Attendees included 270 participants from 47 states, including state and local epidemiologists, surveillance officers, antimicrobial resistance and use program coordinators, health educators, and microbiologists. (cdc.gov)
  • One of the primary ways GEIS accomplishes this task is by providing timely, actionable infectious disease surveillance information to Geographic Combatant Commands and partner agencies, according to Army Maj. (health.mil)
  • Alberta Mandatory Chronic Wasting Disease Surveillance Program guidelines (PDF, 224 KB). (alberta.ca)
  • Lee L, Mukhi S, Bancej C. Crowdsourced disease surveillance success story: The FluWatchers program. (canada.ca)
  • Whether you call it crowdsourcing, citizen science or participatory disease surveillance, the process of having volunteers report health information or symptoms online for the purpose of influenza surveillance is not new. (canada.ca)
  • In this literature review, we aimed to investigate which school CS programs exist in the areas of (applied) life sciences and if any projects target infectious disease surveillance. (csic.es)
  • None of the projects found focused on infectious disease surveillance, and the majority centered around species biodiversity. (csic.es)
  • It is with tremendous relief that we now allow 1.4 billion Chinese citizens to go about their lives without constant government surveillance. (theonion.com)
  • King had been under government surveillance since 1958, but the 1963 speech caused the FBI to ramp up its efforts to monitor and uncover seditious acts by King. (fedscoop.com)
  • Facebook, Google, Microsoft and a host of tech companies asked Congress on Friday to reform a government surveillance program that allows the National Security Agency to collect emails and other digital communications of foreigners outside the United States. (vox.com)
  • Meanwhile, they endorsed the need for new transparency measures, including the ability to share with their customers more information about the government surveillance requests they receive. (vox.com)
  • Absent, however, is Apple, which previously has joined with its tech counterparts in pushing for limits in government surveillance programs. (vox.com)
  • Earlier this month, the NSA on its own terminated a piece of its program that essentially allowed the agency to collect Americans' emails and texts if those communications contained key words related to foreigners that already are targeted for government surveillance. (vox.com)
  • Fundamental-Plus: Conduct Fundamental Program activities plus adds 2 projects: 1) An in-depth or follow-back investigation activity based on findings from surveillance data analyses or OHIs, and 2) a policy or intervention activity in collaboration with state partners, other state grantees, or other external partners that can impact the surveillance of an identified occupation, industry or population. (cdc.gov)
  • This report presents the results of that survey, which indicate that most states lack the funding and data necessary to develop asthma surveillance programs. (cdc.gov)
  • The findings in this report indicate that states lack the funding, staff, and data necessary to develop asthma surveillance programs. (cdc.gov)
  • SKYNET is a program by the U.S. National Security Agency that performs machine learning analysis on communications data to extract information about possible terror suspects. (wikipedia.org)
  • The surveillance workshop began with reviewing the public health impact of DRSP, MRSA, resistant N. gonorrhoeae , and foodborne pathogens, and the need for accurate surveillance data to monitor resistance trends. (cdc.gov)
  • Because the rate of MRSA varies widely by geographic location, local surveillance data of MRSA are useful. (cdc.gov)
  • In an interview with The Guardian , one security expert described the program as ' PRISM on steroids ,' referring to the controversial data-gathering system used by the US National Security Agency (NSA). (theverge.com)
  • This provides a new and meaningful data source that improves state-based public health surveillance systems for a better understanding of work as a social determinant of health, including health disparities related to work and the prevention of work-related injury and illness. (ny.gov)
  • The US Department of Labor sponsored Census for Occupational Injuries program is a data collection program while the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health sponsored Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation program conducts site visits and makes recommendations for preventing future injuries. (ny.gov)
  • Then he claimed he thought Wyden was asking about another collection entirely: the foreign-facing Section 702 program (which does , inadvertently, collect a lot of US person data/communications ). (techdirt.com)
  • To address this challenge, CDC collaborated with federally funded hemophilia treatment centers (HTCs) to create a national public health surveillance program called the Universal Data Collection (UDC) system (1998-2011) and the expanded next-generation Community Counts program , which began in 2011. (cdc.gov)
  • Data from CDC's hemophilia surveillance (health monitoring) programs have informed public health and clinical guidelines and practices to prevent or reduce hemophilia-related health problems. (cdc.gov)
  • This report is the first comprehensive summary of CDC's hemophilia surveillance programs, the Universal Data Collection system and the next-generation Community Counts program. (cdc.gov)
  • Without such data injuries arising from new causes could not be identified quickly and it was difficult to evaluate intervention programs using injuries as the outcome. (bmj.com)
  • Many papers have used data from this program, 1- 24 but no comprehensive description of it has been published previously. (bmj.com)
  • The vision is to build the program to collect more data, more information, and improve the site picture of what was going on within Indo-Pacific as far as vector surveillance and pathogen detection. (health.mil)
  • FluWatchers has been providing PHAC with reliable data on ILI activity in the community that complement the data obtained from traditional influenza surveillance sources. (canada.ca)
  • Collecting syndromic data, rather than reports of a particular disease allows the flexibility for expanded monitoring for emerging symptoms, syndromes, illnesses and self-reported diagnoses as was done with COVID-19, without sacrificing the surveillance of another disease such as influenza. (canada.ca)
  • This initiative leveraged the Distribute project, developed and piloted by ISDS, to enhance and support Emergency Department (ED) surveillance in order to make aggregate level data available to experts in public health. (syndromic.org)
  • Regular collection and national collation of surveillance data relating to honey bee pests. (horticulture.com.au)
  • Describe how to capture data to identify which responders would benefit from medical referral and long-term health surveillance. (cdc.gov)
  • There was a decrease in the amount of data submitted to the surveillance system, as well as in the number of isolates sent to the reference laboratory for confirmation of bacterial identification and antimicrobial susceptibility testing. (who.int)
  • Most other studies outlined in the book are predominantly US based, but other national tobacco control programs can find the guide helpful in identifying their data needs and suitable methods for data collection. (who.int)
  • More information about global surveillance system data is provided on the CDC website for global tobacco control . (who.int)
  • Surveillance and Evaluation Data Resources for Comprehensive Tobacco Control Programs. (who.int)
  • Compliance with the mandatory respiratory screening series is described using data from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Coal Workers ' Health Surveillance Program (CWHSP). (bvsalud.org)
  • After consolidating the data, a model for an Iranian notifiable infectious diseases surveillance system was developed and was tested by the Delphi method in 3 stages. (who.int)
  • Employees who have access to select agents or who work in a biosafety level 3 (BSL-3) laboratory must participate in a medical surveillance program. (unr.edu)
  • Personnel who work with vertebrate animals must participate in a medical surveillance program. (unr.edu)
  • The Alberta government began conducting voluntary surveillance for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in farmed and wild cervids in the fall of 1996. (alberta.ca)
  • Nolan's passion for vector-borne and zoonotic diseases grew from her Master of Public Health program at the University of Texas where she developed an interest in epidemiology and infectious diseases. (sc.edu)
  • ABSTRACT This article reports on a comparative study of the national notifiable infectious diseases surveillance systems currently employed in the United States of America, Australia and the Islamic Republic of Iran, with the aim of developing a modified system specific to the needs of the Iranian health system. (who.int)
  • Only Wisconsin maintained a surveillance system to monitor trends in asthma. (cdc.gov)
  • Amid heightened security concerns and terrorist threats, Russian security forces have constructed a powerful surveillance system designed to monitor the movements and communications of virtually everyone on the ground at Sochi. (theverge.com)
  • At the core of Russia's surveillance apparatus is the System of Operative-Investigative Measures, or SORM: a nationwide electronic monitoring program capable of intercepting phone calls and messages sent through email or social networks. (theverge.com)
  • CDC has successfully developed, implemented, and maintained a surveillance system for hemophilia. (cdc.gov)
  • The Canadian Hospitals Injury Reporting and Prevention Program (CHIRPP) is an emergency room based injury surveillance system that operates in 10 pediatric and six general hospitals. (bmj.com)
  • Following a visit to Australia in 1988, one of us (IBP) initiated efforts to create a system similar to its National Injury Surveillance and Prevention Program (NISPP) in Canada. (bmj.com)
  • BAMS will supply the US Navy with persistent global intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance system to protect the fleet and provide a capability to detect, track, classify and identify maritime, littoral and land targets. (defense-update.com)
  • The platform proposed by the team is the Mariner, a high altitude derivative of the Predator B (Reaper) system, designed to operate as an all-weather, multi-mission altitude agile, persistent intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance asset supporting naval operations. (defense-update.com)
  • The Occupational Health Surveillance System UNR-OHSS will be used for BSL-3 Laboratory worker medical surveillance. (unr.edu)
  • Overall, the primary objective of the National Bee Pest Surveillance Program was to act as an early warning system to detect new bee pest or disease incursions, to provide the best chance of containment or eradication. (horticulture.com.au)
  • This educational offering is to provide a recommended health monitoring and surveillance framework, referred to as the Emergency Responder Health Monitoring and Surveillance™ (ERHMS™) system, which includes specific recommendations and tools for all phases of a response, including the pre-deployment, deployment, and post-deployment phases. (cdc.gov)
  • The booklet provides a section focusing exclusively on global surveys and tools, outlining the requirements and methods for the four survey types conducted as part of the Global Tobacco Surveillance System (GTSS) and a global study for school students. (who.int)
  • The debate led to new legislation to replace the government's broad surveillance program with one that required agencies to seek court orders instead. (scmagazine.com)
  • Otherwise, the government's Section 702 program isn't supposed to target Americans. (vox.com)
  • Since 2015, FluWatchers, the program and its current 12,000+ participants, has been contributing to the Public Health Agency of Canada's (PHAC) weekly ILI surveillance dataset and helping with the early detection of ILI activity across Canada. (canada.ca)
  • Expanded Programs: Conduct enhanced Fundamental Program activities plus propose up to 4 expanded projects in priority areas of their choosing. (cdc.gov)
  • The success of CDC's hemophilia surveillance program can serve as an example of how to conduct surveillance for other complex chronic diseases. (cdc.gov)
  • Apparently it isn't enough to conduct body scans or pat down people who intend to fly because the TSA now has a secret, domestic Quiet Skies program that includes surveilling American travelers who are not under any investigation or suspected of wrongdoing. (csoonline.com)
  • The PCLOB also pointed to the fact that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Court failed to produce a judicial opinion on the legal rationale for the metadata program. (truthout.org)
  • In addition, the report released by the PCLOB today raises fundamental questions about the utility of the metadata program. (truthout.org)
  • Of course, two weeks ago, the Administration announced that the President has "determined not to reauthorize the Terrorist Surveillance Program when the current authorization expires," and that the Department of Justice will now submit its surveillance applications to the FISA Court for approval under FISA. (blogspot.com)
  • The requests came in the form of a letter to Republican Rep. Bob Goodlatte, a Virginia lawmaker who's overseeing the debate in the House of Representatives to reauthorize a program, known as Section 702, which will expire at the end of the year without action by Capitol Hill. (vox.com)
  • In January 2016, we announced a proposed settlement in the case with important reforms that include a bar against NYPD investigations on the basis of race, religion, or ethnicity, and the creation of a civilian representative position to oversee rules that safeguard against discriminatory and unjustified NYPD surveillance. (aclu.org)
  • From 2016 to 2021, this investment delivered a nationally coordinated bee-pest surveillance program to help safeguard honey-bee and pollinator-dependent industries in Australia. (horticulture.com.au)
  • Specifically, the table below details the areas covered by NIOSH surveillance activities, including the extramurally funded state surveillance programs , and other NIOSH extramural programs. (cdc.gov)
  • NIOSH supports a number of surveillance efforts involving public health practice by the New York State Department of Health. (ny.gov)
  • Overall, the goals of MRSA surveillance are to measure the extent of the problem, characterize populations at risk, monitor changes over time, and inform empiric therapy to target and evaluate prevention activities. (cdc.gov)
  • But many U.S. lawmakers have known about the secret programs for years, and they have remained supportive, including the chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Dianne Feinstein of California. (globalsecurity.org)
  • In an unprecedented disclosure, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said it had decided to declassify and announce the program renewal, which occurs periodically but is never publicized. (fox6now.com)
  • The national intelligence office did not say when the periodic renewal order from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court was handed down, but NSA legal authority under the Patriot Act to collect telephone metadata surveillance was due to expire on Friday. (fox6now.com)
  • The reconnaissance and surveillance research program operated by the armasuisse Science and Technology competence sector deals with five capability-oriented competence areas in the field of ISTAR (Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition and Reconnaissance). (admin.ch)
  • James Clapper needs to stop making excuses for lying to the American people about mass surveillance. (techdirt.com)
  • World Trade Center (WTC) rescue and recovery workers enrolled in the WTC Health Program (WTCHP) were exposed to a complex mix of pollutants and carcinogens. (cdc.gov)
  • Occupational health surveillance provides information on where, how and why workers get sick or hurt on the job. (ny.gov)
  • Some animal workers will perform activities which are also subject to the provisions of the Respiratory Protection program. (unr.edu)
  • Submission of mandatory respiratory health examinations among US coal miners participating in the Coal Workers' Health Surveillance Program. (bvsalud.org)
  • Surveillance is conducted for a number of public health programs to identify occupational illnesses and then develop and provide outreach and prevention services. (ny.gov)
  • This spring, the Army's Public Health Command-Pacific's Entomology and Environmental Molecular Biology Laboratory service lines will launch the first ever Pre-Exercise Vector Surveillance program for the Indo-Pacific region. (health.mil)
  • This spring, Eads and his team will launch the first ever Pre-Exercise Vector Surveillance program for the Indo-Pacific region (Photo by: Public Health Command - Pacific). (health.mil)
  • ISDS has the following ongoing or past programming areas that are intended to inform, train, or otherwise provide a service to the public health surveillance workforce. (syndromic.org)
  • For the past six months the National Security Agency has not been collecting metadata on Americans' calls and texts domestically, marking the quiet end to a controversial surveillance program enacted by the 2001 Patriot Act. (scmagazine.com)
  • A controversial NSA surveillance program that sweeps up volumes of communications - emails, photos, videos and more is constitutional. (wxpr.org)
  • Traditional surveillance systems, such as laboratory surveillance, may not capture such insight because not everyone who is sick will see a doctor and, traditionally, even fewer will be tested Footnote 5 . (canada.ca)
  • Active surveillance for hospitalized laboratory-confirmed influenza cases among residents of the seven county Rochester catchment area began in 2004 as part of the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention Emerging Infections Program (EIP) Flu-Surv.net . (rochester.edu)
  • Active surveillance for laboratory-confirmed influenza hospitalizations is conducted among residents of the seven county Rochester catchment area. (rochester.edu)
  • This program is designed to comply with the provisions of the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals, 8th edition (NRC, 2011), the Guide for the Care and Use of Agricultural Animals in Research and Teaching , 3rd edition (FASS, 2010) and the associated core reference text Occupational Health and Safety in the Care and Use of Research and Animals (NRC, 1997). (unr.edu)
  • Two years after the assistant professor and members of her Laboratory of Vector-borne and Zoonotic Diseases partnered with the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (Medical Entomology Lab) and Clemson University (Livestock and Poultry Health) to launch the state's first tick surveillance program , Nolan has been awarded $585K to expand their efforts. (sc.edu)
  • Although asthma affects more than 14 million persons in the United States (1,2), there have been no nationally coordinated efforts to assist state health departments in developing asthma surveillance programs. (cdc.gov)
  • Although no state or territory maintains an asthma-control program, 26 state health departments have been associated with efforts to control asthma in selected communities in their state, including environmental control measures (22), public education (14), patient education (14), education of health-care providers (12), and legislation (five). (cdc.gov)
  • Obama put forward his defense of the secret surveillance programs when asked by a reporter during a health care event in California. (globalsecurity.org)
  • The overarching objective of the project is to define whether World Trade Center (WTC) responders included in the WTC Health Program experienced an increased risk of cancer and whether or not such increase can be associated with WTC-related exposures. (cdc.gov)
  • State and local health department officials are most interested in surveillance options that provide valid estimates of their antimicrobial resistance problem. (cdc.gov)
  • This workshop occurred in conjunction with the Get Smart: Know When Antibiotics Work campaign's annual conference for health educators to advocate surveillance and health education cooperation. (cdc.gov)
  • What is Occupational Health Surveillance? (ny.gov)
  • What Occupational Health Surveillance Activities are Conducted in New York State? (ny.gov)
  • The Occupational Health Surveillance program oversees a number of registries and programs. (ny.gov)
  • In 1990, Health Canada officially launched CHIRPP as a three year feasibility program. (bmj.com)
  • The new initiative is a pilot program funded by the Global Emerging Infections Surveillance program, also known as GEIS, a section of the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Branch. (health.mil)
  • Upon completion of the risk assessment, the program participant will review and complete the required confidential health questionnaire. (unr.edu)
  • The majority of new coal miners eligible for health surveillance did not receive a baseline radiograph or spirometry test through the CWHSP even though coal mine operators are required by law to provide these. (bvsalud.org)
  • Ensuring coal miners ' regular participation in health surveillance from early in their careers is an important way to monitor and protect their respiratory health . (bvsalud.org)
  • An effective IPC program is essential for achieving universal health coverage and sustainable development goals by 2030. (who.int)
  • Crowdsourced ILI surveillance has been in practice since 2003 and has been implemented in many countries, including Canada, because of its flexibility, low-cost, timeliness and accuracy Footnote 4 Footnote 5 . (canada.ca)
  • On August of 2002, the Mandatory CWD Surveillance Program became effective in Alberta. (alberta.ca)
  • Building on the more than 11,000 tick specimens analyzed through the state program so far, Nolan will coordinate enhanced collaborations between SC DHEC and academic partners. (sc.edu)
  • Boasting that their persistence had paid off and declaring that citizens may now return to lives free from constant monitoring, Chinese government officials announced Friday that they will immediately discontinue their comprehensive state-run surveillance program after finally catching that guy who drove into President Xi Jinping's mailbox. (theonion.com)
  • The Program will provide an opportunity for Officers to contact people on a lower profile basis while allowing Officers to reach residents who don't answer the door. (olympia-fields.com)
  • Results of both the testing protocol itself and the study participants' experience show how the program succeeded in providing routine, robust testing capable of contributing to outbreak prevention within a campus community and offer strategies for encouraging participation and a sense of civic responsibility. (nih.gov)
  • One promising appeal is student participation in CS school programs. (csic.es)
  • These preliminary findings highlight the need for continued follow-up and surveillance of WTC responders. (cdc.gov)
  • What are the recommendations for a good breast cancer surveillance program? (mymotherlode.com)
  • In this review, we have identified limitations and gaps in reported CS school projects and provided recommendations for establishing future programs. (csic.es)
  • An independent bipartisan agency within the Executive Branch has issued a landmark 238-page report that concludes the bulk metadata telephony program conducted by the National Security Agency has provided only "minimal" benefits in counterterrorism efforts, is illegal, and should be closed down. (truthout.org)
  • WELNA: This is the same panel that issued a scathing report earlier this year on another NSA program doing bulk collection of phone records. (wxpr.org)
  • The final settlement approved by the court in March 2017 established a number of reforms designed to protect New York Muslims and others from discriminatory and unjustified surveillance. (aclu.org)
  • Many top tech companies even banded together in a lobbying group that pushed for surveillance reforms in 2013 . (vox.com)
  • The action to arrange for presentations regarding DOE worker surveillance programs will be completed during this Subcommittee meeting. (cdc.gov)
  • His detailing of the surveillance effort that required communications giant Verizon to turn over caller information triggered outrage from civil libertarians, certain members of Congress and privacy groups concerned with the sweeping nature of the telephone snooping and a companion effort that monitors e-mails. (fox6now.com)
  • Like many other security programs, the SKYNET program uses graphs that consist of a set of nodes and edges to visually represent social networks. (wikipedia.org)
  • The program was administered as a research study ahead of clinical implementation, enabling us to launch surveillance testing while continuing to optimize the assay. (nih.gov)
  • Program will review participant status, risk assessments and add participants to IACUC or IBC Protocols as indicated. (unr.edu)
  • Obama said the revelations about the secret programs have sparked a renewed debate on reconciling national security and civil liberties, a debate he said he welcomes. (globalsecurity.org)
  • The Obama administration, national security experts in Congress and many House Republicans lobbied hard against the effort to kill the program. (voanews.com)
  • The administration is undertaking a careful and thorough review of whether and to what extent additional information or documents pertaining to this program may be declassified, consistent with the protection of national security,' the statement said. (fox6now.com)
  • She co-directs the liberty and national security program at New York University's Brennan Center for Justice. (wxpr.org)
  • It built upon the previous National Bee Pest Surveillance Program (MT12011) and continues with National Bee Pest Surveillance Program: Transition Program (MT21008) . (horticulture.com.au)
  • Surveillance was undertaken for 18 pests, and project activities included national coordination, deployment of sentinel hives and floral sweeping for bees at key ports around Australia. (horticulture.com.au)
  • is a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. (pressenza.com)
  • monitoring of IPC practices, and the development of a national strategy to undertake regular surveillance of HAI. (who.int)
  • o National IPC unit should develop a national HAI surveillance strategy and ensure regular HAI surveillance. (who.int)
  • Traditional influenza surveillance systems only capture the tip of the iceberg of cases. (canada.ca)
  • The Randolph Township Police Department is asking residents and businesses to register their privately-owned surveillance camera systems. (randolphnj.org)
  • Investigate and intervene in situations with an ongoing risk of exposure by referring cases to the Industrial Hygiene Consultation program for technical assistance. (ny.gov)
  • IPC team for the implementation of IPC programs to reduce the burden of healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial resistance. (who.int)