Virtual Workshop: Public Health and Research Applications of the CDC’s Vision and Eye Health Surveillance System (VEHSS)

Prevent Blindness will be hosting a FREE virtual workshop on the Public Health and Research Applications of the CDC’s Vision and Eye Health Surveillance System (VEHSS). This workshop will focus on how to use the CDC’s VEHSS and how the data can be leveraged for use in public health research and programs. You will learn:

What VEHSS is and the data it contains,
How to use the VEHSS website to run custom data queries and download data, and
How to query data to develop research hypotheses, identify disparities, and inform public health planning and policy.

Speakers include:

Joshua R. Ehrlich, MD, MPH, University of Michigan
Elizabeth Lundeen, PhD, MPH, Vision Health Initiative, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
John Wittenborn, NORC at the University of Chicago
David B. Rein, PhD, MPA, NORC at the University of Chicago
Kira Baldonado, MPH, Prevent Blindness (moderator)

Time

November 4, 2021, 1pm ET