CDC
Public Health Informatics Fellowship Program
1600 Clifton Road, NE, Mailstop E-92
Atlanta,
GA
USA
30333
htolentino@cdc.gov
Biographical Sketch:
Dr. Herman Tolentino serves as the Director of the Public Health Informatics Fellowship Program (PHIFP). A physician and anesthesiologist by training at the University of the Philippines, he attended his medical informatics fellowship at the Division of Biomedical and Health Informatics at the University of Washington in 1997 and completed his two-year Public Health Informatics Fellowship at the CDC in June 2006.
Before coming to CDC, he was involved with work to integrate notifiable disease surveillance systems in six Mekong Basin countries together with the WHO Western Pacific Regional Office, helped in the promotion of health informatics in the Asia Pacific region through his involvement with the Asia Pacific Association for Medical Informatics (APAMI) and helped develop the first graduate, two-track (bioinformatics and medical informatics) program in health informatics in the Philippines. He also spent two years leading innovative web development projects in the IT industry. He teaches public health informatics as Adjunct Associate Professor at the School of Public Health, University of Illinois in Chicago.
Selected publications:
• Tolentino H, Brownstein J, Massoudi B, Massoudi M. Using Mobile Technology for Infectious Disease Surveillance. Chapter in Infectious Disease Surveillance (in progress)
• Tolentino H, Marcelo A, Marcelo P, Maramba I. Linking primary care information systems and public health information networks: lessons from the Philippines. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2005;116:955-60.
• Koo D, Tolentino H. Public Health Workforce Needs for Surveillance. Chapter in 3rd edition of “Principles and Practice of Public Health Surveillance by Steven M. Teutsch and R. Elliott Churchill” (Eds.).
• Kamadjeu R, Tolentino H. Web-based public health GIS for resources-constrained environment using SVG technology: a proof of concept applied to the expanded program on immunization data. Int J Health Geogr. 2006 Jun 3;5(1):24.
• Keller M, Blench M, Tolentino H, Freifeld CC, Mandl KD, Mawudeku A, Eysenbach G, Brownstein JS. Use of unstructured event-based reports for global infectious disease surveillance. Emerg Infect Dis. 2009 May;15(5):689-95. Review.