Sheryl Bedno, MD, DrPH, CIP will be speaking about Challenges in Occupational and Environmental Health Surveillance: Lessons from the US Military
Dr. Sheryl Bedno is the Chief Medical Officer and State Epidemiologist in the Bureau of Environmental and Occupational Health, Wisconsin Department of Health Services as of late July 2023. She is a physician-leader with extensive public health and research experience who focuses on systems-level change. She was most recently the Senior Occupational Medicine Advisor in the Bureau of Medical Services at the U.S. Department of State. Sheryl is a retired US Army Colonel who served in multiple public health, occupational health, and research assignments over her 20 year military career. As an Army preventive medicine physician, she deployed to Afghanistan and worked in Kenya on public health surveillance projects and outbreak investigations. Sheryl served as Director of the Fort Liberty Department of Public Health for over six years and led the department to achieving public health accreditation in 2020 (among the first in the Army accredited by PHAB). She grew up in Chicago and attended the University of Illinois at Chicago for medical school and later for a doctorate in public health leadership. Sheryl is board certified in both preventive medicine and occupational and environmental medicine. She is also a certified Institutional Review Board (IRB) professional and served as an IRB Chair for many years.
1. Provide an overview of military occupational and environmental health (OEH).
2. Describe similarities and differences in OEH reporting/surveillance between US military and civilian public health.
3. Discuss 2-3 examples illustrating best practices in OEH surveillance.
