Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Office of the Chief Science Officer
1600 Clifton Rd NE
Atlanta,
GA
USA
30333
Email:
fos4@cdc.gov
Biographical Sketch:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Atlanta, Georgia
Public Health Informatics Fellowship; Office of the Chief Science Officer, OCSO (2006-2008)
Representative projects completed and currently in the manuscript preparation phase:
Documentum at the Nexus of Research and Publications: Leveraging e-Clearance and Capabilities for Enterprise Knowledge Management. Analysis of time-to-clearance and repurposed e-clearance data to leverage Documentum capabilities in an enterprise research evaluation system.
A Bibliometric Methodology to Inform a Logic Model for Evaluating a Public Health Research Portfolio. The bibliometric methodology was used to analyze the citations in a public health guideline in order to assess the contribution of CDC research to the guideline.
Searching MEDLINE for a Public Health Topic: Skill or Vocabulary? A skill-based search strategy misses approximately one-quarter of the references in a public health guideline. Adding the Controlled Health Thesaurus (CHT) public health vocabulary reduces missed literature by 50%.
Literature Review of Portfolio Evaluation Research. Justification requests for research investments arise in public sectors. Evidenced-based responding requires data, tools, and methodologies built up from the literature.
Charting the Growth of Public Health Informatics: Still Emerging? Analysis of MEDLINE data tells us that public health informatics “has a base in technical specialized knowledge,” suggesting that public health informatics is a non-emergent profession.
Egalitarian Distributive Justice and Health Care Access in America. Health care access can be made explicit by governmental action (egalitarian justice) or by market forces (libertarian justice). The evolving answer to the access question will signal the value of individuals in a group.