The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is seeking suggestions for experts to participate in the new workshop series on Data Situational Awareness for Medical and Public Health Preparedness and Response. Under the auspices of the Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness for Disasters and Emergencies, the workshop series will examine how medical, public health, emergency management, and critical infrastructure data are collected, integrated, analyzed, and translated into real-time situational awareness to support timely, coordinated decision-making across jurisdictions and sectors. The workshop series will consider these issues in the periods before, during, and after disasters and emergencies. Using these suggestions, National Academies staff will be looking to build a committee of approximately 6-8 volunteer experts in addition to collecting information for potential speakers, participants, and peer reviewers for any publications resulting from the activity. Based on the Statement of Task, staff are looking for expertise particularly in the following areas:
- Medical and public health preparedness and response
- Emergency management and disaster operations
- Health care delivery systems
- Critical infrastructure
- Public health surveillance and epidemiology
- Health informatics, data science, and analytics
- Data integration, interoperability, and system architecture
- Data governance, privacy, security, ownership, and sharing
- Data visualization, modeling, and decision-support tools
- Cross-sector and intergovernmental coordination, including public-private partnerships