Public Health Informatics Institute
325 Swanton Way
Decatur,
GA
USA
30030
Email:
ewild@taskforce.org
Biographical Sketch:
Ellen Wild has been the Director of Programs for the Public Health Informatics Institute (the Institute) since 2001. She brings frontline public health experience to her with primary responsibility for program development and management, including planning, implementation, and evaluation of specific programs.
Before joining the Public Health Informatics Institute in 1996 as a project officer for All Kids Count, an Institute program, Ms. Wild worked for the Hawaii State Health Department as the Infant Immunization Program Manager, responsible for directing a statewide immunization campaign, developing and enforcing state immunization requirements for school entry, advising physicians and nurses on recommended immunizations and assessing state immunization levels.
As a Project Officer for All Kids Count, Ms. Wild had primary responsibility for monitoring the progress of state and local immunization registry projects, providing technical assistance to the projects, developing and analyzing quantitative and qualitative surveys, participating in the development of national guidelines on immunization registry development, and providing expert advice to projects nationwide. She is particularly interested in legislation and procedures for maintaining the confidentiality and security of data in health information systems.
Ms. Wild received her BA from the University of Colorado (1986) and MPH in Community Development/Health Education from the University of Hawaii at Manoa (1991).