Tag Archives: public health

Kevin Zhang, a 19-year ICF veteran, has been appointed vice president of public health and data analytics at Rockville, Maryland-based consulting firm DSFederal. Zhang previously served as senior director of health informatics at ICF and oversaw disease surveillance projects.

ICF has received a potential five-year, $9M task order to craft a framework for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to implement emerging information technology across public health programs.

Deloitte has launched a platform based on Salesforce infrastructure that works to help government and health officials manage disease surveillance and information dissemination activities.

The U.S. government is in discussions with health professionals and technology companies such as Google and Facebook about possible ways to obtain insights from smartphone location data to fight the new coronavirus, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.

Justin Sanchez, director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's biological technologies office, will officially join Battelle in late June to serve as a technical fellow.

A Perspecta subsidiary and McKing Consulting have won positions on a potential five-year, $48M contract from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to perform geospatial research, analysis and services. CDC awarded $40M to Perspecta’s enterprise services team and another $8M to McKing through the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, according to a FedBizOpps notice posted Tuesday. Tasks …

ICF has won a potential three-year, $20 million task order to help the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention update a cloud-based public health surveillance system. The company said Thursday it will provide technical expertise and support services for the surveillance, information management, technology, data management and analytic tools of the agency’s BioSense platform. The recompete …

ICF has received a $12.4 million contract to develop criteria that will guide the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Water in efforts to protect the public from the adverse impact of pollutants in the country’s drinking and recreational waters. The contract with EPA’s health and ecological criteria division includes one eight-month base …

IBM‘s Watson Health unit and the Food and Drug Administration have entered into a two-year research agreement to study the use of blockchain technology to facilitate a secure exchange of health data. The company said Wednesday the partnership will initially focus on oncology-related information and look into the exchange of owner-mediated data from sources such …

ICF has secured nine contracts worth a combined $34.4 million from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to support CDC’s public health campaigns. CDC will use the company’s campaign development, creative, digital advertising, social marketing and media, stakeholder and traditional engagement expertise to facilitate  multiple projects such as the National Diabetes Prevention Program, ICF said Friday. The …

The Transportation Department has awarded Cornell University up to $7 million in funds to lead a research initiative meant to explore technologies that could help reduce potential adverse effects of transportation on public health and the environment, Cornell Chronicle reported Thursday. Tom Fleischman writes Cornell will lead a consortium of …

Wanda Gamble oversees the health and analytics unit at Battelle as a vice president for the nonprofit science and research organization whose federal healthcare clients include the departments of Health and Human Services and Veterans Affairs, HHS components and the Military Health System. She joined Columbus, Ohio-headquartered Battelle in 2012 after three years at …

The Department of Health and Human Services has awarded $350,000 in cooperative agreements to help private and public healthcare sector partners address cybersecurity threats and develop an information sharing ecosystem. HHS said Tuesday its Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology awarded a competitive agreement to the Ormond Beach, Florida-based National …

IBM has introduced a new initiative to pick heath organizations that will $500,000 in healthcare engagement and expert assistance in an effort to help address public health challenges. The company began to solicit health projects from civil, governmental and social sector organizations for IBM’s health and technology team to solve, …

Vistronix Intelligence & Technology Solutions has been awarded a five-year, $30 million contract to provide information technology and data analytics support to the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. The company said Friday it aims to help build analytical tools for NIEHS researchers to collect, integrate and visualize data on chemical agents under …