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Held on June 19, 2019.

During this 90-minute session, Aaron Kite-Powell, M.S., from CDC and Wayne Loschen, M.S., from JHU-APL provided updates on the NSSP ESSENCE platform and answered the community's questions on ESSENCE functions and features.

Content type: Webinar

Held on March 14, 2019.

During this 90-minute session, Aaron Kite-Powell, M.S., from CDC and Wayne Loschen, M.S., from JHU-APL provided updates on the NSSP ESSENCE platform and answered the community's questions on ESSENCE functions and features.

Content type: Webinar

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The online training course will help novice and intermediate ESSENCE users learn how to perform... Read more

Content type: Training

NSSP Adverse Childhood Experiences Dashboard Best Practices Document

How can syndromic surveillance be used to monitor indicators of ACEs?

Scientists at CDC’s Division of Violence Prevention and at health departments across the country are exploring the utility of syndromic... Read more

Content type: Report

In 2021, the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) and CDC’s NSSP partnered with the National Association for Public Health Statistics and Information Systems (NAPHSIS) and Ruvos on a project to route mortality data through the State and Territorial Exchange of Vital Events (... Read more

Content type: Meeting Recordings & Notes

Washington State (WA) has developed and recorded three ESSENCE trainings for their staff. These include trainings for basic, intermediate, and advanced ESSENCE skills.

WA ESSENCE Trainings

ESSENCE Basic Skills Training (March 2021) ESSENCE Intermediate Skills Training (June 2021)... Read more
Content type: Training

In July 2021, NSSP announced the release of the Rnssp R package which facilitates access to the ESSENCE system via a secure and simple interface. Rnssp provides methods that streamline the data pull and simplify R code previously required by users to pull data via the APIs using the keyring ... Read more

Content type: Training

Background: The Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE) is a secure web-based tool that enables health care practitioners to monitor health indicators of public health importance for the detection and tracking of disease outbreaks,... Read more

Content type: Journal Article

On April 29, 2021, CSTE, NSSP,  and the National Association for Public Health Statistics and Information Systems (NAPHSIS) provided an overview of an ongoing pilot project to improve data collection and reporting mortality data through the State and Territorial Exchange of Vital Events (STEVE)... Read more

Content type: Meeting Recordings & Notes

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