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Pami Shrestha (Curriculum Vitae) 135, K (2-1) Than Lwin Street, Kamaryut Township, Uangon, Mayanmar. [email protected] 0942258027 About Pami Shrestha: Pami graduated as a Dentist in 2002-2003, and worked as a general dentist untill 2009. Being more interested in health promoting programs, she persued a Masters degree in Public Heath (MPH) (long distance course) from University of Liverpool. She currently moved to Yangon, Myanmar with her family and is keen to explore the public health field especially, health promotion and disease control. Career Objective: To obtain volunteering position in Public health field to gain work expereince and to utilise my academic knowledge. Long term plans are to develop skills to run health promotion and prevention programmes and to progress to a Public health officer. Qualifications: Masters in Public health (MPH), University of Liverpool, United Kigdom. Bachelors of Dental Sciences (BDS) Manipal Academy of Higher Education Karnataka, South India. Public health studies: Health promotion Epidemiology International disaster management Health in lower income countries Health Policy Health Management Qualitative research method July 2013 2002-2003 Skills: Strong command of English language (both written and spoken). Learning Myanmar language. Intermediate skills in Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint. Team player with good interpersonal skills. Essay Public health surveillance. “Surveillance is an ongoing collection of data, analysis, interpretation and dissemination of information” (J. Z. Losos, 1996). The data accumulated through public health surveillance help health workers to: -Identify disease and its causes, -To understand the incidence and prevalence of a disease outbreaks, -And to plan and implement health promotion and health protection programs to prevent and control diseases. Public health surveillance is done to improve the health status of the people and to reduce morbidity and disease related mortality. (Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, 2001). Public Health surveillance can be active and passive. Active surveillance targets specific groups and network to obtain data on specific diseases and conditions. This system collects data from sites such as hospitals, clinics, health centers where the risk population is accessible. Regular active surveillance can produce early, reliable and complete information of the ongoing diseases but this method can be expensive to be conducted in a routinely manner. Passive surveillance is done with the reports provided by the health workers, (clinicians, nurses, laboratory and other diagnostic results). This system although inexpensive can sometimes be poorly reported or be incomplete, lacking further diagnostic data. Timely evaluation of such surveillance helps to make provision of early detection of disease and enhances the implementation of immediate actions to prevent and control the outbreak. It can also assist to improve the hospital and healthcare facilities and making medical staffs available when required and providing better access to the healthcare interventions. Thus ongoing surveillance is an essential part of any public health research programs. References: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (2001). Updated guidelines for evaluating public health surveillance systems, recommendations from the guidelines working group. MMWR 2001 50 (RR-13), 1-35. J. Z. Losos (1996). Routine and sentinel sueveillance methods. Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal, 2 (1): 46-50. Milde-Busch, A. et.al. (2008). Surveillance for rare Infectious Disease: Is One Passive Data Source Enough for Haemophilus Influenza? European Journal Of Public Health (2008) 18 (4): 371-375. Peterson,L.R. and Brossette,S.E. (2002). Hunting Health Care-Associated Infections from the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory: Passive, Active, and Virtual Surveillance. [Online] Availabe from: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC120140/ (Accessed: 13 May 2011). USAID (2009) Infectious Diseases. [Online] Available from: http://www.usaid.gov/our_work/global_health/id/surveillance/fbrsurveillance. html (Accessed: 13 May 2011).
