International Society for Disease Surveillance
Public Health Practice
26 Lincoln Street #3
Brighton,
MA
USA
02135
cishikawa@syndromic.org
Biographical Sketch:
Charles Ishikawa is the Program Manager for Public Health Practice at the International Society for Disease Surveillance. He joined the Society in September 2009 to ramp-up Distribute for the H1N1 response. Most recently, Charlie manages the Society's Meaningful Use projects including development of the, "Final Recommendation: Core Processes and EHR Requirements for Public Health Syndromic Surveillance."
An epidemiologist by training, Charlie has worked in the fields of public health preparedness and public health surveillance at local, regional levels, and national levels. His expertise is in public health surveillance, information systems development, mass prophylaxis clinic planning, exercise design and facilitation, training development, and emergency communications. He has served on NACCHO's Project Public Heatlh Ready's Workgroup since 2007, and is an Adjunct Clinical Instructor at the Boston University School of Public Health where he instructs a master's level course in Public Health Emergency Prepardness and Response. In 2004, Charlie was awarded the 18th Sellers-McCrown Award by the Georgia Public Health Association and Georgia Division of Public Health for outstanding work in Epidemiology and Public Health Preparedness.