Projects
The Public Health Data & Training Center at the Institute for Public Health alongside the Center Co-Director, Faculty Scholar and Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases, Hilary Reno, MD, PhD are supporting local health departments by developing the region’s first comprehensive tool to track the ever-increasing number of sexually transmitted infections. This platform is one piece of a long-term strategy to address the region’s high infection rates, and is a collaboration between local public health departments, sexual health providers, and academics. Specifically, the tool is a regional sexual health database of comprehensive, “real time” information reflecting positive and negative STI cases.
The world understands now more than ever before, the power of data to shape our lives. When it comes to public health data, the Centers for Disease Control simply states “Data saves lives. Better data saves more lives.” The City of St. Louis Department of Health (DOH) expressed concern about a lack of organization and standardization of its data assets. The aim of this project is to assess the DOH’s data infrastructure and capacity, and develop recommendations for improvement.
This report serves as a living document of data assets that DOH employees and public health practitioners can use as a reference tool and as a guide for planning ongoing data strategy and improvements. Challenges are paired with recommendations and, where possible, the cost and/or feasibility of each recommendation is noted. We hope other local public health authorities find this assessment useful and adaptable for their own needs.
Report coming in spring 2023.
The Public Health Data & Training Center is responsible for maintaining two databases related to violence prevention for Life Outside of Violence (LOV), the Hospital-based Violence Intervention Program.
Oversight of these data is provided by a committee of the STL-HVIP body, and are available to researchers and LOV program evaluators by way of an application process.
STL-HVIP
A repository of clinical information on all hospital visits made for violent injuries from all four level-one trauma centers in the region
LOV
A program facilitated by case workers designed to prevent recidivism for violent injuries at the four participating hospitals.
Completion of these forms does not guarantee access to the requested data.
Publications
View the latest publications from our team and collaborators.
- CONCLUSION: Recurrent injury and death are frequent among survivors of firearm injury, particularly among patients from socially vulnerable areas. Our findings highlight the need for […]
- CONCLUSIONS: A novel 2 g three-times-weekly post-dialysis ceftriaxone regimen can be recommended for a bacterial infection with an MIC ≤1 mg/L. A 1 g three-times-weekly […]
- CONCLUSION: Recurrent injury and death are frequent among survivors of firearm injury, particularly among patients from socially vulnerable areas. Our findings highlight the need for […]
- CONCLUSIONS: Dentists' confidence in antibiotic prescribing increased by training level, but knowledge did not. Trainees and practicing dentists would benefit from a CDST to improve […]
- Youth in the U.S. experience a high rate of assault-related injuries resulting in physical, psychological and social sequelae that require a wide range of services […]
- CONCLUSION: Recurrent injury and death are frequent among survivors of firearm injury, particularly among patients from socially vulnerable areas. Our findings highlight the need for […]
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- CONCLUSIONS: Life Outside Violence has been implemented into clinical practice as the first HVIP to influence across an entire region through partnership with multiple university […]
- CONCLUSION: Longer-term (8+ weeks) doxycycline use is generally safe and may be associated with minor side-effects. Further research is needed on the potential metabolic impact […]
- CONCLUSIONS: MG infection is common in people at high risk of STIs; testing symptomatic patients would facilitate appropriate therapy. Macrolide resistance is high and azithromycin […]
- BACKGROUND: Bacterial vaginosis might increase HIV risk by eliciting genital inflammation and epithelial barrier disruption, whereas vaginal Lactobacillus crispatus is associated with immune quiescence and […]
- CONCLUSIONS: Inequities in the initial COVID-19 vaccination and booster rollout in 2 large US metropolitan areas were apparent across racial/ethnic communities, across levels of social […]
- CONCLUSIONS: Healthcare use disruptions impacted a substantial proportion of residents. Future healthcare planning efforts should consider these data to minimize potential morbidity and mortality from […]