Attachment A Recruitment Emails for GPHEW Needs Assessment

Attachment A – Recruitment Emails for GPHEW Needs Assessment Survey

Recruitment Emails for GPHEW Needs Assessment Survey

Email subject: Your chance to improve GIS in public health emergencies at CDC – Take our survey now!

Form Approved

OMB No. 0923-0047

Exp. Date: 12/31/2018

1. Non-GPHEW, Non-GRRT Stakeholders

Good morning/afternoon!

I am writing to you on behalf of the GIS in Public Health Emergencies Working Group to request your participation in a brief, online survey. Your responses will help us provide relevant GIS-related guidance, training, and policy recommendations for the use of GIS in public health emergency preparedness and response. With this survey, our working group seeks to understand the gaps and successes associated with current geospatial use in emergency preparedness and response. If you are involved in public health emergency preparedness and response and/or geospatial activities in any way within CDC/ATSDR, this survey is relevant to you!

The survey will take approximately 15 minutes to complete. To complete the survey, please click here (HYPERLINK). Your participation in this survey is voluntary and optionally anonymous. Please complete the survey by October 31, 2017.

Your feedback is very important to us! Thank you in advance for your participation!

Sincerely,

GIS in Public Health Emergencies Working Group

Please contact Erica Adams (yun2@cdc.gov) with any questions.

CDC estimates the average public reporting burden for this collection of information as approximately 15 minutes per response, including the time for reviewing instructions, searching existing data sources, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and completing and reviewing the collection of information. An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to collection of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number. Send comments regarding this burden statement or any other aspect of this collection of information, including suggestions for reducing this burden to CDC/ATSDR Reports Clearance Officer, 1600 Clifton Road, MS D-74, Atlanta, GA 30333, ATTN: PRA (0923-0047).

Form Approved

OMB No. 0923-0047

Exp. Date: 12/31/2018

2. GRRT Stakeholders

Good morning/afternoon!

I am writing to you on behalf of the GIS in Public Health Emergencies Working Group to request your participation in a brief, online survey. Your responses will help us provide relevant GIS-related guidance, training, and policy recommendations for the use of GIS in public health emergency preparedness and response. With this survey, our working group seeks to understand the gaps and successes associated with current geospatial use in emergency preparedness and response. As a GRRT member, you may have specific insight into successful utility and pitfalls or lack of GIS data, products, and methods in the field.

The survey will take approximately 15 minutes to complete. To complete the survey, please click here (HYPERLINK). Your participation in this survey is voluntary and optionally anonymous. Please complete the survey by October 31, 2017.

As a GRRT member, your feedback is especially important to us! Thank you in advance for your participation!

Sincerely,

GIS in Public Health Emergencies Working Group

Please contact Erica Adams (yun2@cdc.gov) with any questions.

CDC estimates the average public reporting burden for this collection of information as approximately 15 minutes per response, including the time for reviewing instructions, searching existing data sources, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and completing and reviewing the collection of information. An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to collection of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number. Send comments regarding this burden statement or any other aspect of this collection of information, including suggestions for reducing this burden to CDC/ATSDR Reports Clearance Officer, 1600 Clifton Road, MS D-74, Atlanta, GA 30333, ATTN: PRA (0923-0047).

Form Approved

OMB No. 0923-0047

Exp. Date: 12/31/2018

3. GPHEW Members

Good morning/afternoon!

As many of you already know, the GIS in Public Health Emergencies Working Group is implementing a needs assessment survey across the agency. Your responses will help us to provide relevant GIS-related guidance, training, and policy recommendations for the use of GIS in public health emergency preparedness and response. With this brief, online survey, our working group seeks to understand the gaps and successes associated with current geospatial use in emergency preparedness and response. We are asking that all GPHEW members take this survey.

The survey will take approximately 15 minutes to complete. To complete the survey, please click here (HYPERLINK). Your participation in this survey is voluntary and optionally anonymous. Please complete the survey by October 31, 2017.

As GPHEW SMEs and general body members, your feedback is especially important to us! Thank you in advance for your participation!

Sincerely,

GIS in Public Health Emergencies Working Group Needs Assessment Committee

Please contact Erica Adams (yun2@cdc.gov) with any questions.

CDC estimates the average public reporting burden for this collection of information as approximately 15 minutes per response, including the time for reviewing instructions, searching existing data sources, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and completing and reviewing the collection of information. An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to collection of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number. Send comments regarding this burden statement or any other aspect of this collection of information, including suggestions for reducing this burden to CDC/ATSDR Reports Clearance Officer, 1600 Clifton Road, MS D-74, Atlanta, GA 30333, ATTN: PRA (0923-0047).