Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Office of Public Health Scientific Services CDC Health Information Innovation Consortium November Forum Brian Lee Chief Public Health Informatics Officer Office of Public Health Scientific Services Wednesday, November 5, :00-11:00am EST Chamblee Building 106, Room 1A

Agenda “Innovation in Surveillance” – Chesley Richards, MD, MPH Presentation - “Visual Analytics for Discovery and Insight: NCHS Experience with Data Visualization Tools” – Yinong Chong, PhD CDC Surveillance Strategy Innovation Projects 2015 Schedule Next Steps – Timeline Items of Interest General Discussion

2015 Surveillance Strategy Innovation Projects Goals Identify and accelerate emerging tools and approaches to improve public health surveillance. Foster and promote creative solutions to surveillance challenges faced by CDC public health programs and STLT partners. Share results and lessons learned across public health community. Reference: CDC Surveillance Strategy [link][link]

2015 Surveillance Strategy Innovation Projects Sponsored by OPHSS to support surveillance strategy Second annual portfolio. [2014 Portfolio][2014 Portfolio] Portfolio of small projects  Extensions  Evaluations & Assessments  Experiments  Multi-staged projects  Prototypes / Pilots  Minimum Viable Products

2015 Surveillance Strategy Innovation Projects Total portfolio - $250k Individual projects - $20-50k Flexible project schedules  Projects last 3-6 months  Must start before September 30, 2015  Finish date dependent on project needs Independently valuable, but extensible (i.e., accretive)

2014 and 2015 Project Portfolios Will Overlap 2014 Projects started between August and November and run on variable schedules 2015 Projects may start between March and September 2014 Portfolio 2015 Portfolio today9/30/2015

Project Characteristics Requested Improve effectiveness or efficiency of existing surveillance systems by leveraging emerging information technology, and/or novel approaches Advance innovation on a specific area related to:  Interoperability and Reuse  Analysis & Visualization  Standardization & Vocabulary  Data Access & Open Data  Privacy & Security

Project Characteristics Requested Explore and answer a distinct question and provide validated learning  if successful, provide insights or tools that can be generalized to other surveillance systems or activities; or  if unsuccessful, provide lessons learned that can be applied to future projects (i.e., failure can still be useful) Be independently valuable, but extensible (i.e., accretive)

2015 Process New Features Project Proposals can use Informatics Innovation Unit resources (developers, product designers)  Meet with Dr. Savel and IIU team as part of proposal design  Project is designed as an Informatics Lab “Engagement”“Engagement” CHIIC Advisory Group project brainstorming  Selected projects can choose to set up design thinking “deep dive” sessions with advisory group to validate, clarify and plan project ideas. [more info][more info]

Selection Process To align projects with center priorities each project should first gain approval by:  Supervisor  Division/Center leadership  Division/Center Management Official  Division/Center Associate Director for Informatics  Division/Center Associate Director for Science  Division/Center Associate Director for Policy CHIIC Advisory Group will review projects and present recommendation to OPHSS Director

Project Outputs Specific outputs vary depending on nature of project Upon project completion, each project will share:  Program perspective of problem that is being tested  Context of the project and its stakeholders  Results and what was learned  Opportunities for reuse within other programs  Potential enhancement areas for add-on work

Timeline November 17 – Call for Proposals December 31 – Submissions Due February 2 – Notification of Award

More information innovation-projects innovation-projects 2014 Project Submission Template [link][link] 2014 Surveillance Strategy Innovation Projects Call for Proposals [link][link]

Next Steps & Timeline Post an idea or problem to phconnect.orgphconnect.org Quarterly Forums  Tuesday, February 10, 2015  Tuesday, May 12, 2015  Thursday, August 13, 2015 Innovation Project Awards  Presenting results from projects  2015 Project Proposals due December 31, or to be added to distribution

Items of interest NSF NITRD Webinar “Supporting Data Analytics for the Sciences: Challenges and Opportunities” 11/ pmEST [link passcode=“Datascience#12”][link passcode=“Datascience#12”] NOWCAST: Chikungunya in the Americas – Interactive Charts and Maps on cdc.gov – [link] [link] SciComp Training – Cluster Computing, Linux – Various [link][link] JohnsHopkins / Coursera Training – Data Science Specialization – 9 Online Courses [link] [link]

Thank you & Questions For more information please contact Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 1600 Clifton Road NE, Atlanta, GA Telephone: CDC-INFO ( )/TTY: Visit: | Contact CDC at: CDC-INFO or The findings and conclusions in this report are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Office of Public Health Scientific Services