Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity (ELC) Cooperative Agreement Program
Funding Initiated In 1996

FY05 Funding July 1, 2005 through December 31, 2005 - $352,733

Activities Proposed for FY 05

Food Safety, Hepatitis Prevention and Control, National Electronic Disease Surveillance System, West Nile Virus, and General Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity

Key Performance Indicators

Food Safety

• Contribution of PulseNet data that is critical in detecting associations between different cases of selected enteric bacterial infections and leads to recognition and interruption of outbreaks and disease transmission.
• Representation on all quarterly teleconferences and participant contribution at an appropriate level.

Hepatitis Prevention and Control

• Comparison of proportion of high risk patients vaccinated for hepatitis A and hepatitis B who have complete data entered into the web based immunization registry.

National Electronic Disease Surveillance System

• A continued interaction within the Surveillance community will support the coalition.

West Nile Virus

• A continued provision of the surveillance data for the department web site as well as surveillance reports to our cooperators will serve to monitor our progress.

General Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity

• Reports on tick identification and mammalian seroprevalence of vectorborne human infections are delivered each year to the Epidemiology Program.
• Participation and contribution of Laboratory staff in quarterly meetings of two working labs.
• Disease reports received form the medical director.

Contact Information and Links

Kathleen F. Gensheimer, M.D., MPH
State Epidemiologist
Bureau of Health
Maine Department of Health and Human Services
286 Water St.
8th Floor, Key Plza.
Augusta, ME 04333-0011

Maine Department of Health and Human Service: http://www.maine.gov/dhhs/