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Item Altered standards of care for health care providers in the pandemic influenza(Indiana University, 2009) Kinney, Eleanor D.; McCabe, Heather A.; Gilbert, Amy Lewis; Shisler, Janna JoPandemic influenza will pose tremendous challenges to health care providers, state public health authorities, and the public. All will have to conduct business under the most adverse of circumstances. It will be difficult for providers to meet the customary legal standards of care imposed by state and federal regulatory authorities, as well as the common law tort system. This white paper will explore the legal issues associated with altered standards of care in pandemic influenza.Item International outbreaks of Monkeypox virus infection with no established travel: A public health concern with significant knowledge gap(Elsevier, 2022) Al-Tawfiq, Jaffar A.; Barry, Mazin; Memish, Ziad A.; Medicine, School of MedicineItem MERS-CoV recently re-emerged in Qatar, Saudi Arabia, its feasible global health risks amid FIFA world cup 2022 and salient counteracting strategies – an update(Wolters Kluwer, 2023-02-01) Chopra, Hitesh; Islam, Md Aminul; Chandran, Deepak; Emran, Talha B.; El-Shall, Nahed A.; Al-Tawfiq, Jaffar A.; Dhama, Kuldeep; Medicine, School of MedicineItem Public Health and Epidemiology Informatics: Recent Research and Trends in the United States(Thieme, 2015) Dixon, Brian E.; Kharrazi, H.; Lehmann, H. P.; Epidemiology, School of Public HealthObjectives To survey advances in public health and epidemiology informatics over the past three years. Methods We conducted a review of English-language research works conducted in the domain of public health informatics (PHI), and published in MEDLINE between January 2012 and December 2014, where information and communication technology (ICT) was a primary subject, or a main component of the study methodology. Selected articles were synthesized using a thematic analysis using the Essential Services of Public Health as a typology. Results Based on themes that emerged, we organized the advances into a model where applications that support the Essential Services are, in turn, supported by a socio-technical infrastructure that relies on government policies and ethical principles. That infrastructure, in turn, depends upon education and training of the public health workforce, development that creates novel or adapts existing infrastructure, and research that evaluates the success of the infrastructure. Finally, the persistence and growth of infrastructure depends on financial sustainability. Conclusions Public health informatics is a field that is growing in breadth, depth, and complexity. Several Essential Services have benefited from informatics, notably, “Monitor Health,” “Diagnose & Investigate,” and “Evaluate.” Yet many Essential Services still have not yet benefited from advances such as maturing electronic health record systems, interoperability amongst health information systems, analytics for population health management, use of social media among consumers, and educational certification in clinical informatics. There is much work to be done to further advance the science of PHI as well as its impact on public health practice.