Poison Center and Public Health Collaborations Community of Practice (CoP)
Data collected by the nation’s poison centers (PCs) is an important tool for all-hazards exposure and illness surveillance. Close collaboration and open communication among local, state, and federal public health partners and PCs is necessary to leverage PC data for public health surveillance.
In 2010, the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists, (CSTE), American Association of Poison Control Centers (AAPCC), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Health Studies Branch spearheaded the creation of the Poison Center & Public Health Collaboration CoP.
Mission: To bolster collaboration between federal, state, and local health agencies and departments and poison centers through sharing best practices and facilitating networking between members
Successes:
- Recruited more than 250 public health and PC professionals as active members of the CoP
- Established a CoP steering committee to set goals and direction of CoP
- Conducted more than 25 national webinars on state and national public health uses of PC data (see select examples in table of select previous webinars)
- Led eight roundtable discussions at national meetings to discuss the importance, current state, and obstacles between PC and health department (HD) collaboration
- Conducted special projects focused on supporting partnerships between HDs and PCs (example below)
CoP Special Project:
In 2012, the steering committee developed questions to better characterize current collaboration and barriers to collaboration between PCs and state and local HDs. Questions were then tailored towards either PC managing directors or state and local epidemiologists and administered as an online survey. HD results were collected and analyzed by CSTE staff whereas PC results were analyzed by CDC staff. CDC also performed a separate analysis looking at results linked by jurisdiction (I.e., linking the PC(s) that serve a specific state).The results of this evaluation (presented in the two following reports) illustrate the wide spectrum of collaboration and partnerships that exist between PCs and DOHs across the country. Two major findings of this evaluation are:
- PC/DOH partnerships with low collaborative capacity might benefit from improving communication between PCs and DOHS
- PC/DOH partnerships with high collaborative capacity may benefit from addressing data transmission, management, and analysis issues.
Use of Poison Center Data Assessment Report (2012)Cdc-pdf[PDF – 339 KB]External
Documents:
Newsletters:
Summer 2018 – Facts about Cyanobacterial Harmful Algal Blooms for Poison Center Professionals Cdc-pdf[PDF – 113 KB]
Fall 2016 – Radiation Emergency Training Cdc-pdf[PDF – 2 MB]
Summer 2016 – Opioids Cdc-pdf[PDF – 832 KB]
Spring 2016 – National Poison Prevention Week Cdc-pdf[PDF – 398 KB]
Winter 2016 – Introduction to the Poison Center Public Health Community of Practice Cdc-pdf[PDF – 322 KB]
Upcoming Webinars:
To Be Announced
Select Previous Webinars:
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Using Drug Overdose Syndromic Surveillance Data to Impact Local Public Health ActionCdc-mediaExternal |
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Epidemiology of Suspected Pesticide Poisoning LivestockCdc-mediaExternal |
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Opioid Misuse in Missouri: Analyzing Emergency Department Use in Urban/Rural AreasCdc-mediaExternal |
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Public Health Surveillance in a Large Evacuation Shelter Post Hurricane HarveyCdc-mediaExternal |
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Developing Guidance Documents to Facilitate Poison Center and State Health Department Collaboration (CSTE 2018)Cdc-mediaExternal |
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Harmful Algal Blooms: a public health approachCdc-mediaExternal |
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West Virginia Poison Center: Collaboration with Public Health to Monitor Lay Public Naloxone UtilizationExternal |
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2017 | Georgia… We have a problem: The Anatomy of an Opioid OutbreakCdc-media[MP4 – 60 MB]External |
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Oregon Poison Center and Oregon Public Health Division monitoring for the 2017 Solar EclipseExternal |
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Methanol Ingestions: Public Health and Poison Center Response – TennesseeExternal |
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Opioid Surveillance Webinar Series #3 Part 1: Syndromic Surveillance Case Definition for Monitoring Opioid Related ED visits in the Colorado North Central Region (CO-NCR), State of Nebraska, and Marion County, IndianaExternal |
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Challenges and Implications of Postmarketing Surveillance of Prescription OpioidsExternal |
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Rapid surveillance of overdose morbidity – Developing case definitions, building queries, and analyzing resultsExternal |
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2016 | Collaborative investigation of a clenbuterol-adulterated heroin outbreak in Virginia |
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Adulterated medications sold on the street as prescriptions, The Fake Xanax Bars in San FranciscoExternal |
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Development of the Arkansas PCC Mission Ready Package to Support Continuity of Operations and Surge Utilizing the Emergency Management Assistance CompactExternal |
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2015 | Massachusetts poisonings and department of public health collaborations |
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2014 | The High Cost of Bath Salts: A Study of the Health Care Burden of Illicit Synthetic Drug Use in Duluth, Minnesota |
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2013 | Linking Poison Center Call Data to Hospital Discharge Data: Understanding proxy variables to better document work related poisonings |
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Poison Centers: Public Health’s Information & Communication Partner |
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Use of data from poison centers for hazardous exposure and illness surveillance (ISDS webinar)External |
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2012 | Michigan’s public health collaborations to prevent poisonings |
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Increasing the use of Poison Centers by the Federal and State Regional Response Team (RRT) in Region 6 to provide medical and public health support |
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2011 | Incorporation of Real Time Poison Center Data to Enhance Surveillance – The Florida Department of Health ESSENCE-PIC Project |
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Wisconsin’s use of the NPDS web service for surveillance |
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Poison Center and Public Health Collaboration in Oregon |
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2010 | Use of the National Poison Data System for chemical surveillance |
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Camphor-Related Seizures – A Bronx Tale: One Case Study of NYC’s PCC Surveillance |
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More information:
For more information on the Poison Center and Public Health Collaborations Community of Practice or to become a member, please contact:
Emily Glidden, MPH
Community of Practice Contact
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
National Center for Environmental Health
Division of Environmental Health and Science Practice
4770 Buford Highway NE
Atlanta, GA 30341
EGlidden@cdc.gov