34 - Transforming Public Health Surveillance and Applied Epidemiology to Meet the Future: The U.S. Emerging Infections Program at 30

Monday, October 20, 2025

10:30 AM - 11:45 AM US ET

Location: B401-B402

CME Credits: Maximum of 1.25 hours of AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
MOC Credits: Maximum of 1.25 hours of MOC Credit
CNE Credits: Maximum of 1.25 hours of ANCC Credit
ACPE Credits: ACPE 1.25 knowledge-based contact hours of pharmacy CE
ACPE Number: JA0007082-9999-24-002-L01-P
PACE Credits: Maximum of 1 of PACE contact hours
CE Broker: Maximum of 1 CE broker credit hours

Moderator(s)

Ruth Lynfield, MD (she/her/hers)

State Epidemiologist and Medical Director
Minnesota Department of Health
St. Paul, MN, United States
Robert Pinner, MD

Retired from CDC May 2025
N/A, GA, United States

Faculty(s)

H. Keipp Talbot, MD MPH FIDSA

Professor
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
RT

Robert Tauxe
RH

Rachel Herlihy, MD, MPH (she/her/hers)

State Epidemiologist
Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
Denver, CO, United States

Disclosure(s):

Ruth Lynfield, MD: No financial relationships to disclose.

Robert W. Pinner, MD: No financial relationships to disclose.

H. Keipp Talbot, MD MPH FIDSA: No financial relationships to disclose.

Rachel Herlihy, MD, MPH: No financial relationships to disclose.

Learning Objectives:

At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to:

explain how public health surveillance can be used to inform public health practice;
discuss how vaccine effectiveness data inform public health policy;
describe modern surveillance for foodborne pathogens including genomic insights.

Presentations:

10:30 AM - 10:55 AM US ET

Measuring Vaccine Effectiveness to Inform Public Health Policy - Current and Future Challenges
Speaker: H. Keipp Talbot, MD MPH FIDSA – Vanderbilt University Medical Center
10:55 AM - 11:20 AM US ET

Modernizing Estimates of the Burden of Foodborne Disease and Source Attribution
Speaker: Robert Tauxe
11:20 AM - 11:45 AM US ET

Innovating Public Health Practice Through Surveillance and Applied Epidemiology
Speaker: Rachel Herlihy, MD, MPH (she/her/hers) – Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment