Public Health Data Standards Consortium
624 N. Broadway
Room 382
Baltimore,
MD
USA
21205
Email:
aorlova@jhsph.edu
Biographical Sketch:
Feb 05-now Clinical Associate Professor, School of Public Health and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Principal Responsibilities: Teaching the on-line course entitled Public Health Informatics, 690M.
July 04-now Associate, Department of Health Policy and Management, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University.
Principal Responsibilities: Teaching courses in Public Health Informatics including Informatics in Public Health, 309.690; and Role of Public Health in a Nationwide Health Information Network, 309.860.11. Advisor of students in the Master of Public Health (MPH) Program. Co-investigator in public health informatics research and development projects.
July 03-now Executive Director, Public Health Data Standards Consortium c/o Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University.
Principal responsibilities: Administrative responsibilities for daily operation of the membership-based organization of national, state and local agencies, professional organizations and individuals interested in integration of clinical and public health data systems to improve health of the US population. Development and implementation of the strategic action plan to facilitate the implementation of data standards in public health practice and research. Development of the Electronic Health Record (EHR) standards from public health perspectives. Development of the integrated clinical-public health EHR systems.
2002-now Member of the Executive Committee of the Johns Hopkins (JH) School of Medicine’s Training Program on Health Sciences Informatics funded by the National Library of Medicine.
Principal responsibilities: Curriculum development for the public health informatics concentration of the NLM-funded JH Health Sciences Informatics program.
2001-now Joint Appointment of the Visiting Associate Professor at the Division of Health Sciences Informatics, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University.
Principal responsibilities: Curriculum development for the NLM Training program in Health Sciences Informatics; mentoring informatics fellows; teaching public health informatics courses. Advisor of fellows in the Health Sciences Informatics Program. Principal Investigator in public health informatics research and development projects.
1997-June 04 Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University.
Principal Responsibilities: Teaching two courses in Public Health Informatics; public health informatics research; co-principal investigator on the numerous research projects on lead poisoning prevention.
1995-1996 Visiting Research Scholar, Toxicology Program, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Maryland at Baltimore, Baltimore, USA.
Principal responsibilities: Curriculum development for the courses on Fundamentals of Environmental Health and on Environmental Policy under the Program "Social Sciences Curriculum Development" sponsored by the International Research Exchange Board (IREX).
1993-1995 Associate Professor, Department of Geology and Geochemistry of Landscape, Geographical Faculty, Moscow State Pedagogical University, Moscow, Russia
Principal responsibilities: Teaching of courses in geography, chemistry, environmental protection and ecology.
1992-1995 Visiting Researcher, Center for Energy and Environmental Studies, Princeton University, Princeton, USA, for a total of six months, June-July, 1992, July-September 1993, March 1995.
Principal responsibilities: Co-director of a joint Russian-American lead pollution assessment project.
1990-1993 Head of Information Center, Ecology and Industrial Wastes Inc., Moscow, Russia.
Principal responsibilities: Head the Information Center with 63 employees; principal investigator of several projects to develop an information system on industrial wastes sponsored by the Russian State Committee of Natural Resources, Russian State Committee of Metallurgy, Ministry of Coal Industry and Russian State Committee of Gold and Diamond Industries.
1988-1990 Senior Researcher, Central Research Project Institute, USSR State Construction Committee, Moscow, Russia
Principal responsibilities: Assessment of environmental pollution related to the coal mines operation in Donbass region (now Ukraine) and development of environmental remediation strategies for coal industry.
1985-1988 Research Associate, All-Union Institute of Scientific and Technical Information, USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
Principal responsibilities: Editorial work for the reference journal on geological sciences, and databases and information systems development.
LEADERSHIP
May 07-now Lead, Public Health Data Standards Consortium (PHDSC) – Integrating Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) Task Force on Public health
Nov 04-now Co-Chair, National Health Information Network Committee, Public Health Data Standards Consortium
Dec 03-now Co-Chair of the Ad Hoc Task Force on the Electronic Health Record-Public Health, Public Health Data Standards Consortium
July 03-now Executive Director, Public Health Data Standards Consortium, c/o Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
1997-2001 Co-Director of the Lead Project at the Center for Russian Environmental Policy, Moscow, Russia
1993-1995 Co-Director and Lead Scientist of U.S./Russian Joint Research Project on "Evaluation of Lead Pollution in Moscow, Russia" with the Center for Energy and Environmental Studies, Princeton University; Kennedy Krieger Institute, John Hopkins School of Public Health; Harvard School of Public Health; Central Laboratory, State Geological Enterprise "Centrgeologia"; A.N.Severtzov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences; Department of Geology and Geochemistry of Landscape, Moscow State Pedagogical University.
1990-1993 Head of Information Center, Ecology and Industrial Wastes Inc., Moscow, Russia
Co-author of numerous scientific publications and presentations at the national and international fora