Center Research
Our Work
Led by a team of experienced faculty and staff, The Center is engaged in research and practice to help support stronger and more prepared local, state, national, and global health departments, agencies, and ministries of health.
2024
PHEPR Region VIII Workplan
In response to ongoing public health emergencies throughout the country, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) planned to reestablish Centers for Public Health Preparedness (CPHP) as Centers for Public Health Preparedness and Response (CPHEPR) in Schools/Programs of public health among the 10 CDC regions. In preparation for this effort, they awarded several contracts designed to explore existing PHEPR capabilities and capacities, identify gaps, and then create 5-year work plans that include strategies and potential interventions for the identified focus areas.
Utah COVID-19 Health Equity Study
This study included approximately 90% of all Utah residents with over 3.1 million people. It used the Utah Population Database and COVID-19 health records from University of Utah Health and Intermountain Health electronic medical records to study health disparities. A health disparity is when we see significantly different health outcomes between one group of people compared to another group and may be the result of many things, including health inequities.
2018
ESF-8 Coordination Toolkit
The Essential Support Function 8 (ESF-8) Coordination Toolkit is a product of the study “Making Disasters Less Disastrous”, a research project funded by the CDC which assessed the state of collaboration between groups responsible for public health and medical response to disasters. The overall purpose of this toolkit is to facilitate better collaboration between all entities involved in health and medical response (governmental, non-governmental, private, and public) before, during and after emergency events.
2015
School Absenteeism Surveillance Project
The Student Absentee Surveillance System (SASS) is an online absentee surveillance system designed for use by school districts and public health agencies. The system is optimized to process, analyze and display daily absentee data for a school district. The system not only displays absentee trends but also generates a range of different absentee warnings based on complex rules.
