CDC Health Data Innovation Summit

Atlanta, GA | September 27-28, 2023

 

The CDC Health Data Innovation Summit brought together key partners to continue sharing insights on high priority public health information challenges and to foster collaborations to address those challenges. Key partners included State, Tribal, Local and Territorial Health Departments (STLTs), healthcare providers, community-based organizations, academia, technology vendors, industry and others.

Building on the CDC-ONC Industry Days that was hosted on February 27-28, 2023, this two-day event accomplished several goals, including:

  • Informed partners about the CDC's strategic direction, major areas of work, emerging areas of work and the highest priority areas in which the CDC is seeking support,
  • Provided networking opportunities, such as cross-sector, problem-based workgroup activities, in order to build partnerships and generate further innovations,
  • Promoted opportunities for partners to collaborate with CDC/STLTs on national and STLT public health priorities,
  • Educated CDC staff about important and arising tools and methods used in industry,
  • Provided partners with opportunities to describe and demo their services to public health decision makers,
  • Provided public health with the opportunity to assess the utility and applicability of industry solutions to existing or emerging problems.

Below you can find the video recordings and associated slides for each session.


 

Full Playlist: Day 1 and Day 2 Presentations

 


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Individual Session Recordings and Slides

 

Day 1:

Welcome: Day 1

Speakers/Panelists:

Ryan Dempsey Argentieri
Facilitator
Deputy Director for Technology and Products, Office of Public Health Data, Surveillance, and Technology, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Mandy Cohen
Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Judy Monroe President and CEO, CDC Foundation

Jennifer Layden
Director, Office of Public Health Data, Surveillance, and Technology, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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Problem Solving and QA with Office of Public Health Data, Surveillance, and Technology

Speakers/Panelists:

Jennifer Adjemian
Director of Detect and Monitor Division, Office of Public Health Data, Surveillance, and Technology, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Michael Radwin
Acting Director, Investigate and Respond Division, Office of Public Health Data, Surveillance, and Technology, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Matthew Ritchey
Acting Director of Inform and Disseminate Division, Office of Public Health Data, Surveillance, and Technology, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Jorge Calzada
Acting Director, Platforms Division, Office of Public Health Data, Surveillance, and Technology, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Jim Jirjis
Division Director of Data Policy and Standards within the Office of Public Health Data, Surveillance, and Technology at CDC

Heather Strosnider
Unit Lead, Customer Success and Engagement Unit, Office of Public Health Data, Surveillance, and Technology, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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Problem Solving and QA with Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology and Office of the Chief Information Officer

Speakers/Panelists:

Ryan Dempsey Argentieri
Deputy Director for Technology and Products, Office of Public Health Data, Surveillance, and Technology, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Steven Posnack
Deputy National Coordinator at Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC)

Suzi Connor
Chief Information Officer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

 

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Building a Pandemic Proof and Future Ready Public Health Data Workforce

Speakers/Panelists:

Rodney Lyn
Session Moderator
Dean, Georgia State University School of Public Health

William Slack
Hiring Improvement Team Lead, United States Digital Service

Laura Franzke
Chief, Information and Data Science Career Community Support Team, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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Democratizing Public Health Data through Innovation and Partnerships: A Path to Health Equity

Speakers/Panelists:

Lauren Smith
Session Moderator
Chief Health Equity and Strategy Officer, CDC Foundation

Ana Penman-Aguilar
Chief Science Officer and Associate Director for Science, Office of Minority Health & Health Equity, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

George Hobor
Senior Project Officer, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nikolai Elneser Community Impact Officer, Neighborhood Nexus

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Public Health’s Approach to Artificial Intelligence

Speakers/Panelists:

Joe Gibson
Session Moderator
Senior Data Entrepreneur, CDC Foundation

Alan Sim
Chief Data Officer, Office of Public Health Data, Surveillance, and Technology, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Jorge Calzada
Acting Director, Platforms Division, Office of Public Health Data, Surveillance, and Technology, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Kelsey Florek
Senior Genomics and Data Scientist, Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene

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Enterprise Approach to Public Health Data

Speakers/Panelists:

J.T. Lane
Session Moderator
Senior Vice President, Population Health and Innovation, Association of State and Territorial Health Officials

Gretchen Van Wye
Acting Deputy Commissioner, Division of Epidemiology and Assistant Commissioner, Bureau of Vital Statistics, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

Angel Aponte
Director of Health Informatics and Technology in the Division of Disease Control, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

Kat McDavitt
President, Insenna

Heather Strosnider
Unit Lead, Customer Success and Engagement Unit, Office of Public Health Data, Surveillance, and Technology, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Lucas Tramontozzi
Senior Vice President, Innovation Programs, Innovation Horizons

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Human Centered Design Demonstration

Speakers/Panelists:

Michael Radwin
Acting Director, Investigate and Respond Division, Office of Public Health Data, Surveillance, and Technology, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Suzi Sorocak
Customer Success & Engagement Unit, Office of Public Health Data, Surveillance, and Technology, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 

Samira Selod
Technology Strategy Office, Office of Public Health Data, Surveillance, and Technology, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Elizabeth Manning
Investigate and Respond Division, Office of Public Health Data, Surveillance, and Technology, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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NIH: How the Pandemic KickStarted Data Management

Speaker:

Ajay Vatave
Assistant Director for Tools and Analytics, NIH

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Civitas: Addressing Chronic Disease Prevalence

Speakers:

Jolie Ritzo
Vice President of Strategy and Network Engagement, Civitas Networks for Health

Jessica Little 
Vice President, Business Development and Programs, Civitas Networks for Health

Melissa Kotrys
CEO, Contexture

Megha Arora
Director Analytics, Bronx RHIO

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HLN Consulting: Shared Service Architecture for IIS Data Exchange

Speaker:

Michael Berry
Project Manager, HLN Consulting, LLC

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Mitre: Supporting Pandemic Response using GAEN and ENPA

Speaker:

Allison Hankus
Lead Public Health Informaticist, MITRE

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University of Nebraska / Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services Information for Action

Speakers:

Patrick Maloney
Assistant Professor and Epidemiologist, Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services, University of Nebraska Medical Center

Shannon Harrer
Health Innovation Lead, Palantir Technologies Inc.

Bill Howard
Board Chair, eHealth Exchange

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eHealth Exchange TEFCA, National Networks, HIEs and FHIR

Speaker:

Jay Nakashima
Executive Director, eHealth Exchange

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IQVIA Government Solutions: Public Health Investigations (AI)

Speakers:

Rosenie Thelus
Principal/Senior Epidemiologist, IQVIA Government Solutions

Silvia Valkova
Project Manager and Primary Investigator, IQVIA Government Solutions

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Michigan: Comparing FHIR Queried vs. Manually Submitted Birth Certificate Data

Speakers:

Jim Kamp
Director, Strategic Partnerships, Public Health Systems, Altarum Institute

Jeffrey Duncan
Director, Division for Vital Records and Health St, MI Dept of Health and Human Serv

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Skylight Inc: Developing an eCR Pipeline

Speakers:

Amrita Bhatti
Product Manager, Skylight Inc.

Daniel Paseltiner
Senior Data Engineer, Skylight Inc.

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Day 2:

Welcome: Day 2

Facilitator: 

Joe Gibson
Senior Data Entrepreneur, CDC Foundation

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Respiratory Disease Surge Preparedness Session

Speakers/Panelists:

Abigail Viall
Session Moderator
Senior Advisor for Federal Inter-Agency Strategy, Office of Public Health Data, Surveillance, and Technology, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Adi Gundlapalli
Senior Advisor for Data Readiness and Response, Office of Public Health Data, Surveillance, and Technology, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Matt Ritchey
Acting Director, Investigate and Respond Division, Office of Public Health Data, Surveillance, and Technology, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Ian Williams
Deputy Director, Office of Readiness and Response, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Brendan Jackson
Incident Manager, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Craig Shapiro
Medical Officer, Office of the Director, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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Acquisition and Contracting in Government

Speaker:

Gwendolyn Miles
Small Business Specialist, Office of Small Disadvantaged Business Utilization, Department of Health and Human Services

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Catalyzing Health Data Systems Transformation through Local Leadership

Speakers/Panelists:

Brandon Talley
Session Moderator
Chief Program and Innovation Officer, CDC Foundation

Umair Shah
Secretary of Health, Washington State Department of Health

Nicole Roberts Yerkes
Data Modernization Initiative Coordinator, Utah Department of Health and Human Services

Lindsay Weaver
State Health Commissioner, Indiana Department of Health

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IBM Panorama

Speaker:

Sunaina Menawat
Executive Director, Public Health, IBM Consulting

Mark Freeman
Chief Data Scientist, IBM

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AWS: Advancing Public Health Missions with FHIR Data Analytics and AI/ML

Speakers:

Henrik Balle
Sr. Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Marc Etone Nkwelle
Solutions Architect, AWS

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Palantir: Data in Motion: Impacts of Common Operating Picture

Speakers:

Eric Heller
Business and Engineering Lead for Technology, Palantir Technologies Inc.

Shannon Harrer
Health Innovation Lead, Palantir Technologies Inc.

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Aderas: Addressing the PII and HIPAA Risks from LLMs

Speaker:

Rory McLean
Head of Innovation, Aderas, Inc.

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Leidos: Enhancing Public Health Data Quality

Speakers:

Sarangan Ravichandran
Bioinformatics Data Scientist, Leidos

Chetan Paul
Vice President Technology and Innovation Civilian Health Solutions, Leidos

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DEPT®: Easy Genomics

Speakers:

Evan Davey
Partner & Global Lead, DEPT®/Health

Kelsey Florek
Senior Genomics and Data Scientist, Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene

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Duality: Advancing Open Rapid Protected Sharing of Public Health Data

Speaker:

Kurt Rohloff
Co-founder and CTO, Duality Technologies

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Closing Remarks

Speaker:

Brandon Talley
Chief Program and Innovation Officer, CDC Foundation

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This project: Data Modernization Initiative Working Groups is supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of a financial assistance award totaling $1,915,915 with 100 percent funded by CDC/HHS. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by CDC/HHS, or the U.S. Government.