2018-08-15T13:56:38-05:00 2017-09-30 580692043 Mauldin & Jenkins LLC 200 Galleria Pkwy SE Ste 1700 Atlanta GA 303395946 990 2016-10-01 237410799 Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists Inc COUN 7704583811 2872 Woodcock Blvd 250 Atlanta GA 30341 John Lisco Senior Director of Finance 7704583811 2018-08-14 1 Aleisa Howell P00936721 7709558600 2018-08-14 2016 2022-09-23 18:48:47Z X Jeffrey P Engel MD 2872 Woodcock Blvd 250 Atlanta GA 30341 18156258 0 X www.cste.org X 1992 GA DEVELOPMENT OF STATE SURVEILLANCE AND EPIDEMIOLOGIST TRAININGVision StatementThe Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists is committed to improving the public's health by supporting the efforts of epidemiologists working at the state and local level to influence public health programs and policy based on science and data. 10 10 48 950 475 0 15334021 17071097 969517 1062815 11811 8450 3897 13896 16319246 18156258 6742061 5481098 0 0 3364471 4441674 0 0 0 5866476 7900151 15973008 17822923 346238 333335 3440692 4314631 1666751 2146919 1773941 2167712 X See Schedule OCSTE promotes the effective use of epidemiologic data to guide public health practice and improve health. CSTE accomplishes this by supporting the use of effective public health surveillance and good epidemiologic practice through training, capacity development, peer consultation, developing standards for practice, and advocating for resources and scientifically based policy. 0 0 FellowshipsApplied Epidemiology Fellowship1) Created in 2003, the Applied Epidemiology Fellowship (AEF) is designed for recent master's or doctoral-level graduates in epidemiology or a related field who are interested in public health practice at the state or local level. The program provides rigorous training and mentorship for its participants while also being flexible to meet the subject area interests of the fellow. Fellows develop a set of core skills through competency-based training.2) Based on the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) program and using a mentorship model, the fellowship offers a unique opportunity for graduates to develop epidemiologic skills with high quality, on-the-job training. Fellows work closely with highly trained and experienced epidemiologists at the state and local level, as well as those working at the federal level with CDC. Overall, 88% of fellowship graduates worked in state, local, or federal public health agencies for a least a year following the fellowship. AEF Highlights1) Gabriela Escutia, MPH, a Class XIII fellow placed at the San Diego County Health Department and the San Diego CDC Quarantine Station assisted with Zika Virus response in San Juan, Puerto Rico. For two months beginning in October 2016, she assisted in measuring the effectiveness of vector control initiatives in Puerto Rico. She also assisted with the initiation of a project to identify non-testing of Zika virus by OB/GYN providers in Puerto Rico. She also managed data and conducted statistical analysis to measure the impact of the Deren el zika Campaign.2) Jane Yackley, MPH, a Class XIV fellow at the Tennessee Department of Health placed in a food safety assignment, created a RedCAP-based foodborne disease complaint system that has been used by the Food Safety Centers of Excellence as a model for other states to adopt. The system makes it easier to access complaint information, improve monitoring of complaints, and increase the potential for cross-checking with epidemiological information for the detection of environmental health issues and outbreaks.3) Emily Morian-Lozano, MPH, MSW, a Class XIII maternal and child health fellow placed at the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention evaluated the 5th/6th grade Maine Integrated Youth Health Survey (MIYHS) and continued her role as a member of the steering committee which resulted in substantial changes to the survey and potential changes to the process of the project. Emily's analysis on smoking during pregnancy will be used as evidence to support the importance of addressing social determinants of health in Maine and could identify areas of the state to focus prevention and intervention efforts. Project SHINEAs part of a multi-organization partnership, CSTE continued to support fellowship and training opportunities through the Strengthening Health Systems through Interprofessional Education (SHINE) program. The Applied Public Health Informatics Fellowship (APHIF), Informatics Training in Place Program (I-TIPP), and the Health Systems Integration Program (HSIP) provided capacity building opportunities at health departments in health systems, informatics, and epidemiology.SHINE Fellow Highlights1) Erica Washington, MPH, a Class IV I-TIPP fellow and HAI Prevention Coordinator at the Louisiana Office of Public Health taught National Health Safety Network Antimicrobial Use and Resistance (AUR) materials to over 100 infection preventionists at the annual National Healthcare Safety Network and Emerging Infectious Diseases (EID) Workshops coordinated by the Louisiana HAI Program. She also contacted other states that were making progress toward AUR surveillance goals to request that they share promotional and educational materials on AUR and antibiotic stewardship.2) Meghan Weinberg, PhD, a Class III HSIP fellow at the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services combined her infectious disease training and EIS experience to improve the Michigan Disease Surveillance System. Her efforts resulted in data-driven recommendations to improve the automatic patient merging function to improve data quality and increase efficiency. She developed guidance on de-duplicating patient records in the system to serve as a resource for future users to sustain the quality improvements long term.3) Lina Saintus, MPH, a Class V APHIF fellow at the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services served as the ELR project manager to oversee the onboarding process for multiple hospitals to send electronic laboratory results. She also developed a post-production ELR quality assurance template to be used in North Carolina and other states and has laid the ground work for developing a quality assurance report card for continuous improvement. Epidemiology Programs & Workforce Development Accomplishments7/1/16 - 6/30/17A) Trainings and Resources1) Partnered with MMWR to provide an Intensive Writing Training which included a webinar series, in-person component and mentorship from experienced writers. 2) Began a mentorship program through the Early Career Professionals Workgroup to build relationships and foster shared learning among applied epidemiologists. 3) Completed the STD Capacity Project to better define and capture both foundational and enhanced surveillance activities across STD surveillance programs in June 2017.4) Developed "Best Practices for Surveillance of Antimicrobial Resistance via Electronic Laboratory Reporting" by the AR/ELR Working Group, which documents common steps and definitions for establishing electronic laboratory reporting (ELR) for antimicrobial resistance (AR), onboarding ELR partners, and processing HL7 ELR messages.5) Hosted a 4-day Epi Info Train the Trainer workshop in March 2017 for epidemiologists from 15 health departments.6) Completed two How-to-Guides, one for Hospitalizations Attributable to Drugs with Potential for Abuse and Dependency, and one for tracking Hospitalizations Attributable to Alcohol within the Alcohol and Other Drug Indicators Subcommittee.7) Developed the Council to Improve Foodborne Outbreak Response (CIFOR) Guidelines for Foodborne Illness Complaint Systems to address the use of foodborne illness complaint systems to detect foodborne disease outbreaks. These guidelines will be incorporated in the third edition of the CIFOR Guidelines for Foodborne Disease Outbreak Response.8) Released an evaluation report of the 2016 CIFOR Guidelines and Toolkit Implementation Trainings, which characterizes the trainings at the 15 CSTE-funded sites and summarizes feedback from training organizers and facilitators about training efforts related to the CIFOR Toolkit.9) Expanded the scope of the CSTE Enteric Diseases Subcommittee (formerly CSTE Food Safety Subcommittee) to address existing and emerging waterborne diseases of public health concern and completed a webinar series on priority subcommittee topics. 10) Released the Chronic Disease Epidemiology Capacity Building report in 2016 to prioritize the chronic disease-specific recommendations for state and local health department in response to needs identified from the 2013 Epidemiology Capacity Assessment.11) Finalized a guidance document by the Heat Syndrome Workgroup on implementing heat-related illness syndromic surveillance in public health practice.12) Hosted a meeting in October 2016 in conjunction with the CDC Environmental Public Health Tracking grantees meeting to identify best practices for visualization of local life expectancy estimates and messaging demonstrated effective for raising awareness and catalyzing multi-sector actions.13) Launched a new CSTE webpage featuring the Sub-County Assessment of Life Expectancy (SCALE) guide, links to resources and past SCALE presentations.14) Developed a guidance document by the Climate & Health Syndromic Surveillance workgroup to encourage surveillance of climate-related health impacts by developing a general instruction on how a jurisdiction may use their syndromic surveillance systems for climate and health surveillance.15) Provided Reportable Conditions Knowledge Management System (RCKMS) training for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and de Beaumont-funded Digital Bridge Electronic case reporting (eCR) pilot jurisdictions at the 2017 CSTE Annual Conference.16) Maintained 23 OH indicators for surveillance with an annually updated guidance document. Developed a new guidance document for sub-state level measures analysis.17) Developed a document within the OH Subcommittee on the Comparison of OSHA Enforcement, OSHA Consultation and NIOSH Health Hazard Evaluation Referrals.18) Hosted "Zika: Notes from the Field" webinar series highlighting jurisdictional experiences from Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico, among others.B) Building STLT Capacity1) Supported 11 STLT-based novel substance use and mental health surveillance projects. Example projects include piloting an active surveillance system for suicide attempts, improving drug surveillance among tribal partners, and assessing the burden of mental health and substance use in a vulnerable population.2) Funded 4 states to pilot the "Recommended CSTE Surveillance Indicators for Substance Abuse and Mental Health."3) Completed the Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) Surveillance Assessment to determine the status of surveillance for CRE within states.4) Developed the Assessment of Healthcare-associated Infection (HAI) Resources and Capacity: Infection Prevention and Drug Diversion to better understand HAI programs' infection prevention and control, drug diversion investigation resources, capacity, and experience.5) Conducted the 2016 State Reportable Conditions Assessment (SRCA) with a 100% response rate.6) Completed Phase II of the RCKMS Project, which included building a knowledge repository for public health and reporters to access information on reporting specifications and a decision support tool to determine the reportability of potential cases of reportable conditions.7) Partnered with HLN Consulting to develop an initial release of the RCKMS decision support tool and jurisdictional user-facing authoring interface, demonstrated the tool at the 2016 CSTE Annual Conference, and conducted an RCKMS Focus Group at the 2016 Public Health Informatics Conference.8) Deployed RCKMS decision support tool on the APHL Informatics Messaging Services platform (AIMS) through a partnership with the APHL.9) Finalized the first round of default content development and vetting of 74 notifiable conditions by translating jurisdiction reporting specifications into machine-processable formats to be used by the RCKMS decision support tool.10) Maintained partnership with CDC and APHL to support the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS) Modernization Initiative (NMI), technical assistance (TA), and onboarding efforts.11) Developed evaluation tools to determine effectiveness of technical assistance and to measure the costs to implement updated message mapping guides (MMGs), as well as the level of effort involved in the onboarding process.12) Continued the activities of the CSTE electronic Initial Case Report (eICR) Task Force, which identified and defined the minimum data elements to be included in an eICR message sent from an electronic health record (EHR) system to public health, by supporting the development and balloting of the HL7 CDA R2 Implementation Guide.13) Continued the activities of the CSTE electronic Initial Case Report (eICR) Task Force, which identified and defined the minimum data elements to be included in an eICR message sent from an electronic health record (EHR) system to public health, by supporting the development and balloting of the HL7 CDA R2 Implementation Guide.14) Concluded second and third phases of funding to 12 collective sites for participation in the Influenza Education among Youth in Agriculture Pilot Project, focused on state-owned collaborations with public health, animal health, and youth organizations to promote One Health initiatives by educating youth on the epidemiology, prevention, and control of zoonotic diseases with public health impact.15) Supported enhanced influenza surveillance at multiple sites through three projects: The Influenza Hospitalization Surveillance Project (IHSP, 3 sites), Acute Respiratory Illness Epidemiology and Surveillance Project (ARIES, 6 sites), and Severe Acute Respiratory Infections (SARI) project (1 site, concluded 2016).16) Supported pilot projects in 3 sites through the 2016-2017 influenza season to increase awareness of Flu Near You among applied epidemiologists, the public and develop new analytic tools for utilization of Flu Near You data.17) Continued to serve as a project partner in Flu on Call , a CDC led initiative to establish a national network of triage lines in the event of a severe influenza pandemic, using existing networks and infrastructure.18) Collaborated with CDC to identify 3 jurisdictions to participate in the Informatics Field Assignee pilot project to advance CDC Surveillance Strategy goals (NMI, ELR, syndromic surveillance, electronic death reporting or eCR) and address gaps in existing informatics capacity at the jurisdiction through a one-year field assignment.19) Awarded funding to select jurisdictions to implement a 12-question Marijuana Supplement within the CDC Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) assessment.20) Supported ISDS efforts to develop ICD-9 to ICD-10 codeset consensus mappings in order to assist public health in converting between ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-CM. 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 52 0 1 48 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 X 10 10 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 GA X Jeffrey P Engel MD 7704583811 2635 Century Parkway NE Suite 700 Atlanta GA 30345 Joseph McLaughlin Vice President 2.00 X X 0 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No liability has been recorded as of September 30, 2017 or 2016 due to uncertain tax positions. Part XII, Line 2d - Other Adjustments: Refunds of Grants paid in prior years -60,436. Europe (Including Iceland & Greenland) 0 0 Program Services Flu Surveillance 7148 Sub-Saharan Africa 0 0 Program Services Ebola 28645 East Asia and the Pacific 0 0 Program Services Flu Surveillance 1668 Central America and the Caribbean 0 0 Program Services Flu Surveillance 1750 Sub-Saharan Africa 0 0 Program Services Ebola 32749 0 0 0 0 0 0 71960 0 71960 0 0 0 0 0 0 Part I, Line 2: Expenses were documented with invoices, receipts & signatures. 1 Utah Dept of Health PO Box 144003 Salt Lake City UT 84114 158472 Influenza Hosp Michigan Dept of Health and Human Serv PO Box 30437 Lansing MI 48909 148299 Influenza Hosp YR7 Ohio Dept of Health PO Box 15278 Columbus OH 43215 134596 Influenza Hosp NYC Dept of Health & Mental Hyg 42-09 28th Street CN48 Long Island NY 11101 89165 Influenza Incidence Ohio Dept of Health PO Box 15278 Columbus OH 43215 83214 One Health Flu Ed Kentucky Dept of Public Health 275 E Main St Frankfort KY 40621 60988 Informatics Field Assign North Dakota Dept of Health 600 e Boulevard Ave Bismarck ND 58505 58750 Influenza Incidence Minnesota Dept of Health PO Box 64975 St Paul MN 55164 56249 Influenza Incidence YR8 Georgia Dept of Public Health 2 Peachtree St NW Atlanta GA 30303 56234 Influenza Hosp YR8 Wisconsin Dept of Health Serv PO Box 1668 Madison WI 53701 55919 melissas - 07/30/18 04:02PM Worksheet Schedule I Michigan Dept of Health and Human Serv PO Box 30437 Lansing MI 48909 52656 One Health Flu New Mexico Dept of Health PO Box 25307 Albuquerque NM 87125 51477 Behavioral Health Surv Michigan Dept of Health and Human Serv PO Box 30437 Lansing MI 48909 50000 GHOST Seattle-King County Dept of Public Health 401 5th Ave Ste 1300 Seattle WA 98104 50000 Behavioral Health Surv North Carolina Dept of health & Human Serv 225 North McDowell St Raleigh NC 27603 48634 Informatics Field Assign Alaska Dept of Health 3601 C Street Suite 358 Anchorage AK 99503 48434 Marijuana Florida State of Dept of Health 4052 Bald Cypress Way Bin B-02 Tallahassee FL 32399 43747 Influenza Hosp YR8 St Louis County Dept of Public Health 6121 North Hanley Rd Berkeley MO 63134 34209 Naloxone Iowa Dept of Public Health 321 E 12th Street Des Moines IA 50319 33929 One Health Flu Ed Youth YR3 Mesa County Health Dept PO Box 20000-5033 Grand Junction CO 81502 32085 Behavioral Health Surv Minnesota Dept of Health PO Box 64975 St Paul MN 55164 31313 One Health Flu ED Youth South Dakota Dept of Health 615 East 4th Street Pierre SD 57501 30925 Informatics Field Assign Boulder County Public Health 3450 Broadway Boulder CO 80304 30000 Essence Platform Surv Rocky Mountain Tribal Epidemiology Center 711 Central Avenue Suite 220 Billings MT 59102 30000 Behavioral Health Surv Denver Public Health PO Box 17093 Denver CO 80217 29997 Behavioral Health Surv Seattle-King County Dept of Public Health 401 5th Ave Ste 1300 Seattle WA 98104 20000 Life Expectancy Iowa Dept of Public Health 321 E 12th Street Des Moines IA 50319 18750 One Health Flu Ed Youth Phase 2 Maricopa County Dept of Public Health 4041 N Central Ave Phoenix AZ 85012 16000 Casper Maricopa County Dept of Public Health 4041 N Central Ave Phoenix AZ 85012 16000 GHOST Maricopa County Dept of Public Health 4041 N Central Ave Phoenix AZ 85012 14883 Substance Abuse Kentucky Dept of Public Health 275 E Main St Frankfort KY 40621 12498 One Health Flu Ed Youth YR3 North Dakota Dept of Health 600 e Boulevard Ave Bismarck ND 58505 12482 One Health Flu ED Virginia Dept of Health 109 Governor Street Richmond VA 23219 11001 Flu near you pilot Houston Dept of Health and Human Services 8000 N Stadium Dr 7th FL Houston TX 77054 10911 Flu near you pilot Maine Dept of Health 220 Capital St Augusta ME 04333 10000 One Health Flu Ed Youth YR3 New Mexico Dept of Health PO Box 25307 Albuquerque NM 87125 10000 Substance Abuse North Carolina Dept of health & Human Serv 225 North McDowell St Raleigh NC 27603 9615 Substance Abuse Crook County Health Department 375 NW Beaver St St100 Prineville OR 97754 8400 Casper Baltimore City of Health Department 200 N Holiday Street Baltimore MD 21202 8333 Opioid Overdose Michigan Dept of Health and Human Serv PO Box 30437 Lansing MI 48909 8139 Substance Abuse Minnesota Dept of Health PO Box 64975 St Paul MN 55164 7855 Substance Abuse Pennsylvania Dept of Health 625 Forster Street Harrisburg PA 17120 6556 12 Question Marijuana 42 0 CSTE/CDC Applied Epidemiology Fellowship 1875493 APH Informatics Fellowship 548229 Health Systems Integration Program Fellowship 642835 Contract Program services 326997 Other 326627 Part I, Line 2: CSTE executes a legally binding agreement with all grantees. This agreement describes the detailed terms and permissible uses of grant funds. Funded entities are required to submit regular progress reports detailing the use of funds 2 - 4 times per year. Progress reports are reviewed internally and shared with stakeholders if needed and/or requested. Funded entities are required to submit budgets detailing estimated costs and expenditures of the award before any funds are disbursed. Any changes made by the grantee from the approved budget must be preapproved by CSTE. A final report is due at the end of the project. X 1 1 X X X X X 0 0 0 Jeffrey P Engel MD Executive Director 233472 0 11392 0 0 0 14008 0 20636 0 279508 0 0 0 John Lisco Senior Director of Finance 160082 0 0 0 0 0 9605 0 10483 0 180170 0 0 0 Beverly Christner Director of Operations 135145 0 8500 0 0 0 8109 0 19384 0 171138 0 0 0 LaKesha Robinson Senior Deputy Director 110473 0 8500 0 0 0 6628 0 31794 0 157395 0 0 0 Part I, Line 1a Employees have a wellness benefit of up to $25 per month. Form 990 Part III Line 4c (continued) 21) Completed initial development and feasibility testing of a mobile application for public health surveillance in collaboration with Castleton University. 22) Continued to coordinate and support both Zika Virus and Ebola Virus response activities among CSTE members, CDC State Coordination Task Force at the EOC, relevant CDC CIOs as well as other partner organizations. 23) Continued convening the CDC/CSTE Zika Virus working group, comprised of vector borne and maternal and child health subject matter experts from CDC, STLT health agencies and other public health non-profits, on a weekly basis to discuss emerging issues related to the response and provided feedback on new or revised guidance and policy documents. C) Consultations 1) Supported over 50 domestic and international consultations by CSTE members and staff to represent CSTE at conferences, meetings and trainings, provide technical assistance, training and peer consultation on day-to-day management of surveillance systems, and conducted several international influenza surveillance reviews. D) Convenings & Meetings 1) Hosted a CDC/CSTE orientation for 13 newly appointed State Epidemiologists to orient them to CDC activities and resources that support state health departments. 2) Convened two meetings in collaboration with The National Association of State Public Health Veterinarians (NASPHV) to update existing compendia guidance documents (The Animal Contact Compendium Committee and the Rabies Compendium Committee). 3) Convened an in-person session of the STD Surveillance Coordinators at the 2016 National STD Prevention Conference focused on soliciting state feedback for updating the 1996 CSTE data re-release guidelines. The updated guidelines for release of data from the Division of STD Prevention were finalized late Fall 2016. 4) Hosted the 7th Annual National Disaster Epidemiology Workshop, focused on the intersection of climate change and disaster epidemiology, in collaboration with CDC, the National Association for County and City Health Officials (NACCHO), and the Safe States Alliance. 5) Convened the third CSTE Pollen Summit in collaboration with the Asthma and Allergy Workgroup which focused on engaging key partners needed to finalize specifications for a national pollen monitoring network and develop a strategic plan for the promotion, education, advocacy and funding needed to implement the network. 6) Partnered with CDC and APHL to host four joint PulseNet/OutbreakNet Regional Meetings, providing a platform for exchanging knowledge and expertise on emerging topics and discussing surveillance for, detection of, and response to enteric diseases and building collaborations. 7) Continued serving as CIFOR co-chair and hosted biannual in-person CIFOR Council Meetings in Minneapolis in September 2016 and Salt Lake City in March 2017 and telephonic meetings in December 2016 and June 2017. Hosted an in-person meeting in January 2017 to identify and prioritize tools and resources that would help health departments implement electronic case reporting (eCR). 8) Successfully convened the 9th Annual WestON meeting in September in Denver, CO with over 70 in-person attendees and 20 webinar participants under the new U13 collaboration-based conference grant with NIOSH. 9) Convened the Winter CSTE Occupational Health (OH) Subcommittee Meeting in conjunction with the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) State Partners Meeting and the NIOSH Workers' Compensation Meeting on Dec 7-8, 2016. The theme of the CSTE OH Meeting was "Strengthening Efforts to Integrate Occupational Health and Safety into Greater Public Health." 10) Convened a project workgroup kick-off meeting in November 2016 in Atlanta, GA for the Implementation and Testing of Proposed ICD-10-CM Injury Frameworks. Three subgroups were developed to complete the scope of work including the Data Quality Subgroup, Case Definition Subgroup, and the External Cause Matrix Subgroup. 11) Convened an Epihack workshop in September 2016 in Denver, CO, in partnership with Skoll Global Threats Fund, to explore Flu Near You data visualization and analytic needs of public health departments. 12) Convened a behavioral health surveillance working group of state, local and federal epidemiologists to review evaluation guidelines for behavioral health surveillance and make recommendations. 13) Established a Mental Health Workgroup to address state, tribal, and local mental health epidemiology needs and develop standardized measures in Sept 2016. In March 2017, the Workgroup became a CSTE Subcommittee. 14) Presented the work of the Overdose Subcommittee at the 12th Annual World Congress on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion in Finland. The presentation was titled "Building Epidemiological Capacity for Drug Overdose." 15) Continued supporting the Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Taskforce to identify, develop, and put into practice scientific, technical, and policy solutions needed to strengthen AR surveillance. 16) The AR Taskforce held an in-person meeting in March 2017 to develop a strategic map for a national AR surveillance system. 17) Hosted the Annual Preparedness Meeting of Non-Profits in March 2017 with representatives from the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO), the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) and CDC's Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response (OPHP&R) to discuss the role of public health non-profits in supporting ongoing and future public health emergency responses. 18) Hosted 16 workshops at the June 2017 CSTE Annual Conference in Boise, Idaho on topics including environmental health surveillance, whole genome sequencing for enteric disease outbreaks, substance use and mental health surveillance, lessons learned from the Zika response, occupational health and safety, molecular epidemiology, Epi Info, healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial resistance, electronic case reporting, influenza surveillance, community health assessments, maternal and child health, chronic disease, injury surveillance, legionella surveillance and a national meeting of state public health veterinarians. E) Policy 1) Developed, co-signed or co-sponsored over 15 letters with other partner organizations to document a specific action or series of actions requested by CSTE membership of an external individual, agency, or organization. Examples include but are not limited to: 2) Submitted formal feedback to HHS on the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for the Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects (Common Rule) and provided comments on the Federal Register notice regarding National Parks Service Office of Public Health Disease Reporting and Surveillance System. 3) Authored a letter to CDC/NCHS regarding the redesign of the injury module questions in the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), which included a proposal to remove key questions related to injury and OH surveillance in consultation with National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) and NIOSH. 4) Authored a letter to the American College of Surgeons who administers the National Trauma Data Standard to call for the reinsertion of Workers' Compensation as a payer source field option. F) Position Statements The following position statements were approved by the Council at the 2017 CSTE Annual Conference: 17-CC-01 - "Support for Use of the CDC Model Aquatic Health Code (MAHC) as a Resource and Guidance Document by State, Territorial, and Local Jurisdictions Regulating Public Aquatic Facilities" 17-ID-01 "Revision to the Standardized Surveillance and Case Definition for Acute Flaccid Myelitis" 17-ID-02 "Revision for the Standardized Case Definition, Case Classification, and National Surveillance for Anthrax" (NNC) 17-ID-03 "Standardized Case Definition for Candida Auris" 17-ID-04 "Public Health Reporting and National Notification of Carbapenemase Producing Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CP-CRE)" (NNC) 17-ID-07 "Standardized Case Definition for Extrapulmonary Nontuberculous Mycobacteria Infections" 17-ID-08 "Public Health Reporting and National Notification of Perinatal Hepatitis C Virus Infection" (NNC) 17-ID-09 "Establishing a Case Definition for Latent TB Infection (TB Infection)" 17-ID-10 "Public Health Reporting and National Notification for Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli (STEC)" (NNC) 17-ID-11 "Update to Public Health Reporting and National Notification for Syphilis" (NNC) Form 990 Part III Line 4c (continued) G) International 1) Advised on the development of the European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention's epidemiology capacity and training needs assessment. 2) Supported international influenza surveillance reviews through deployment of CSTE consultants to locations including Uganda, Mexico, Nepal, Paraguay, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Jamaica, and Moldova. 3) Collaborated with CDC and APHL to host an International Influenza Surveillance and Laboratory Assessor Training in October 2016 to prepare members to serve as subject matter consultants during international surveillance capacity reviews. 4) Supported training courses focused on enhancing international epidemiology and surveillance for influenza in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and Pune, India. 5) Supported four deployments of epidemiologists to West Africa for Ebola Virus Disease recovery efforts and supported six deployments to Puerto Rico for Zika response efforts in late 2016. Form 990, Part VI, Section A, line 6 The organization has active memberships and associate memberships for persons engaged in the practice of epidemiology. Persons currently enrolled full time in an undergraduate or graduate program who are actively pursuing a degree in public health or related field are eligible for student membership. Form 990, Part VI, Section A, line 7a The election of the Executive Board, position statements that do not affect state or territorial public health law, and other similar matters as specified in the Bylaws or designated by the Executive Board shall be determined by a vote of the Active Members by electronic ballot at a time before the Annual Meeting or as designated by the Executive Board. Form 990, Part VI, Section A, line 7b Official Council decisions, such as position statements that affect public health law, are made by vote with only one vote per state or territory cast by the State Epidemiologist or an official active member representative from the state or territory designated by the State Epidemiologist. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 11b The final 990 with all schedules is mailed to the Secretary/Treasurer eight days before it is filed. The Secretary/Treasurer has a full week to review. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 12c Policy requires immediate notification of conflicts and we have annual acknowledgement that all has been disclosed. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 15 Every three to five years an independent contractor is hired to do a salary and wage review. Copies of the report are given to the Executive Board to use as a tool for setting the Executive Director's salary, and a copy is given to the Executive Director for setting the employees' salaries. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, line 19 Some information is posted on the CSTE website for the general public to access. Some information is posted on the CSTE website for member access only. Any information that a requestor could not access themselves, upon request, is provided either by email, fax or mail. Form 990, Part XI, line 9: Refunded Grants paid in prior years 60,436.