2025 Agenda & Presentations
The Public Health Preparedness Summit and Virginia Epidemiology Seminar provide a venue where participants are exposed to current information, research findings, practical tools and lessons learned from the actual events and current topics to strengthen public health preparedness in Virginia.
- Detailed Summit Agenda
- Detailed VES Agenda
- 2025 Virginia Epidemiology Seminar Booklet
Agenda at a Glance
| Day 1: March 25, 2025 | |||
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| 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Pre-conference Workshop-Epidemiology Program Overview (invite only) | Dawn Saady | |
| 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Pre-Conference Workshop - REDCap Training | Jonathan Falk | |
| 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Pre-Conference Workshop - Spokesperson Training | Brookie Crawford | |
| 12:00-1:00 PM | Registration | Hotel Atrium | |
| 1:00-1:45 PM | Welcome/Opening Session | Dr. Karen Shelton - State Health Commissioner, VDH Janet Kelly - Virginia Secretary of Health and Human Resources | Chesapeake Ballroom |
| 1:45-2:45 PM | General Session - Keynote: Reimagining Public Health Preparedness | Dr. Mark Keim MD, MBA | Chesapeake Ballroom |
| 2:45-3:25 PM | Tabletop Exercise Introduction | Aaron Kesecker | Chesapeake Ballroom |
| 3:25-3:45 PM | Break/Move to Breakout Rooms | ||
| 3:45 -5:30 PM | Tabletop Exercise | ||
| Day 2: March 26, 2025 | |||
| 7:30-8:00 AM | Registration and Coffee | Hotel Atrium | |
| 8:00-9:00 AM | Breakout Sessions I | Various | |
| Responder Wellness and Mental Health | Speaker Panel - Greg Podalak Mary Signorelli Dr. Maria Almond (HD) | ||
| Employee Engagement - Workforce Development | Breanne Forbes-Hubbard | ||
| Public Health Emergency Preparedness 101 | Jonathan Kiser Bob Mauskapf | ||
| Richmond Metro Water Incident | Speaker Panel - Stephanie Dunkel Jessica Coughlin Dr. Elaine Perry Ed Porner | ||
| Emergency Communication Systems Overview for Emergencies | Brad Bradley | ||
| Liability and the MRC | Michael Magner | ||
| 9:00-9:15 AM | Break | ||
| 9:15-10:15 AM | Breakout Sessions II | Various | |
| Updates on Modernization, IT Infrastructure | Suresh Soundararajan | ||
| Radiation Exposure Risk in the Commonwealth | Matt Ettinger Christopher Ryker | ||
| Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza | Dr. Julie Murphy Dr. Tracy Woodall | ||
| Workshop on Family Assistance Centers - Local Collaboration | Dawn Bush | ||
| Mountain Community Flooding | Reisa Sloce Delilah McFadden | ||
| How to Effectively Write an AAR | Aaron Kesecker | ||
| 10:15-10:30 AM | Break | ||
| 10:30-11:30 AM | Breakout Sessions III | Various | |
| How to Engage Public Health/Healthcare and Community Partners Post Pandemic | Pamela Chitwood | ||
| Strategies for Preparing, Responding to and Recovering from a Drinking Water Emergency ODW Fact Sheet 2025 | Jessica Coughlin | ||
| Emergency Response Continuum of Responsibility and Authority | Bob Mauskapf | ||
| Health Equity for Public Health - Responding During an Emergency Language Access Resource Guide Working Effectively with an Interpreter | Speaker Panel- Claudia Guerrero-Barrera Ana Trigueros-Merrit Meagan Helmick Alondra Ramirez Yahaira Scoggins | ||
| South Hill - Water/Environmental Multi-Jurisdictional Incident | Andy Aigner Chris Patterson Dr. Scott Spillmann | ||
| 11:30-12:45 PM | Lunch (Provided) and time to transition to next breakout | ||
| 12:45-1:45 PM | Breakout Sessions IV | Various | |
| Clinic Health Department Security | William Moffet - Henrico County Police | ||
| Financial Emergency Preparedness for the Unexpected | David Crabtree | ||
| Utilizing the Media During Emergencies Utilizing the Media During an Emergency Handout | Brookie Crawford | ||
| Climate Change Impact on Public Health - Extreme Weather, Healthcare Resilience, and Mitigation | Abigail Hankin-Wei - Virginia Physicans for Climate Change | ||
| Workplace Safety - Deployment Readiness | Liz Coleman | ||
| Marburg Virus | Speaker Panel- Dr. David Goodfriend Jonahtan Falk Jasie Hearn James Moss Dawn Saady Denise Sockwell | ||
| 1:45-2:00 PM | Break | ||
| 2:00-5:30 PM | Discipline Specific Breakouts | Various | |
| VDH - Health Directors | |||
| VDH - Nurse Managers | |||
| VDH - Epidemiologists | |||
| VDH - Business Managers | |||
| VDH - MRC Coordinators | |||
| Virginia Epidemiology Seminar | |||
| Day 3: March 27, 2025 | |||
| 8:30-9:00 AM | Registration | Hotel Atrium | |
| 9:00-9:05 AM | Welcome | Chesapeake Ballroom | |
| 9:05-9:20 AM | State of Epidemiology in Virginia | Dr. Laurie Forlano, MPH, DO | Chesapeake Ballroom |
| 9:20-9:40 AM | A Tale of Two Data Sources: Matching Death Investigation and Death Certificate Data to Describe the Virginia Drug Overdose Death Landscape | Lauren Yerkes, MPH, CPH | Chesapeake Ballroom |
| 9:40-10:00 AM | Firearm Intent Classification Matters: Describing the Firearm Injury Continuum in Virginia | Lauren Yerkes, MPH, CPH | Chesapeake Ballroom |
| 10:00-10:20 AM | Uncovering the Stories Behind the Statistics: Community Conversations on Resident Perspectives on Needs Regarding Use and Treatment of Opioids and Substances in Richmond, VA 2023 | Jennifer Shepheard, MSc | Chesapeake Ballroom |
| 10:20-10:35 AM | Break and Networking | Chesapeake Ballroom | |
| 10:35-10:55 AM | Multispecies outbreak of Klebsiella pneumoniae Carbapenemase-3-producing Enterobacterales linked to sink drains in an acute care hospital, Virginia, 2023-2024 | Clarissa Bonnefond, MPH, Kayleigh Rehkopf, MS, CIC | Chesapeake Ballroom |
| 10:55-11:15 AM | Strengthening Antimicrobial Stewardship for Skilled Nursing Facilities (SASS): One Year Implementation Successes and Lessons Learned in the Fairfax Health District | Samantha Christensen, MSc, MPH, CIC | Chesapeake Ballroom |
| 11:15-11:35 AM | Evaluation of the CDC's National Healthcare Safety Network Antimicrobial Use and Resistance Module Antibiogram Report for Use as a State Antimicrobial Susceptibility Surveillance Report in Virginia | Emily Hawker, MPH, CDC/CSTE | Chesapeake Ballroom |
| 11:35-11:55 AM | A Collaborative, Multi-Partner Response to a Chronic Q Fever Case in Southside Health District, 2024 | K. McKenna Luzynski, MSc, CIC Angela Myrick-West, MPH | Chesapeake Ballroom |
| 11:55 AM-1:00 PM | Lunch and Networking | ||
| 1:05-1:25 PM | Burrowed Beneath the Surface: Examining Personal Risk Factors to Combat Tickborne Disease in Fairfax Health District, 2023-2024 | Chtaura Jackson, MS, MPH | Chesapeake Ballroom |
| 1:25-1:45 PM | A Human, A Canine and A Spirochete, Virginia Beach 2024 | Ashley Caesar, MPH, MHI | Chesapeake Ballroom |
| 1:45-2:05 PM | Farmville Splash Pad Gastrointestinal (GI) Outbreak | Jordan Eason, BS | Chesapeake Ballroom |
| 2:05-2:25 PM | Investigating a Salmonella Typhimurium Outbreak Associated with Raw Beef Consumption at a Restaurant, Virginia, 2023 | Sahill Patel, MPH, CIC | Chesapeake Ballroom |
| 2:25 AM-2:40 PM | Break and Networking | ||
| 2:40-3:00 PM | Applying Integrated Genomic Epidemiology Results to Improve Characterization of COVID-19 Outbreaks — Virginia, 2023 | Kayla Delk, MPH | Chesapeake Ballroom |
| 3:00-3:20 PM | Exploring the Association Between Hypertension Hotspots and Social Determinants of Health: A Cross-Sectional Study of 2021 Virginia Census Tracts | Chandni Joshi, DrPH, MPH | Chesapeake Ballroom |
| 3:20-3:40 PM | Implementation of Genomic Surveillance of Hepatitis C Virus Infection in the Southwest Health Region of Virginia, 2024 Pilot | Rachel Stallings, MPH | Chesapeake Ballroom |
| 3:40-3:50 PM | Voting for People’s Choice Award | Chesapeake Ballroom | |
| 3:50-4:00 PM | Closing Remarks and Award Presentations (Grayson B. Miller, Jr., MD Award, Diane Woolard, PhD Award, and People’s Choice Award) | Brandy Darby, DVM, MPH, DACVPM | Chesapeake Ballroom |
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The Public Health Preparedness Summit and Virginia Epidemiology Seminar provide a venue where participants are exposed to current information, research findings, practical tools, and lessons learned from the public health emergency response to strengthen public health preparedness in Virginia.
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