National Syndromic Surveillance Programs NSSP

Course Title: The National Syndromic Surveillance Program’s (NSSP) New BioSense Platform

Course Description: This basic-level webinar presentation will provide an overview of the transformation of BioSense from focusing on developing an application to a comprehensive program that includes a capacity building grant, a community of practice grant, advancing the practice of syndromic surveillance, and brokering projects across levels of government.

Audience: This basic-level webinar is intended for laboratory scientists working in sentinel, state, and local public health laboratories.

Objectives: At the conclusion of this program, the participant will be able to:

• Describe how BioSense has changed into the National Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP)
• Describe how the data processing rules, server capacity, and software on the BioSense Platform has been
  upgraded
• Review how NSSP has modernized technology and broadened both the collaboration and vision to include
  people, partners, policies, information systems, standards, and resources

Continuing Education: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Laboratory Training and Services Branch, is approved as a provider of continuing education programs in the clinical laboratory sciences by the ASCLS P.A.C.E.^® Program. This webinar is approved for 1.0 hour of P.A.C.E.® credit., and has been approved for 1.0 contact hours in the General (Microbiology/ Mycology/ Parasitology) category for Florida Laboratory Licensees.

Special Needs: Course content is closed captioned where applicable and optimized for a screen reader.

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