How are health jurisdictions being recruited to participate?
At the outset of the project, in August 2009, a letter from CDC Director Dr. Thomas R. Frieden was sent to public health agencies across the nation, announcing the partnership and encouraging the agencies to contribute by joining the growing community of participants reporting data from their respective jurisdictions. This was followed by a letter to the Regional Collaborative partners with the National Center for Public Health Informatics/CDC, wherein the division director provided additional detail about the project, and similarly encouraged them to get involved. Representatives from both CDC and ISDS then began a calling campaign, reaching out to all potential participants, in order to answer any remaining questions, get them enrolled, and begin the data collection process.
