Department
Community Development
Requested Action (Identify appropriate Action or Motion, purpose, cost, timeframe, etc.)
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Request approval to enter into a Data Use Agreement (DUA) between Fulton County, Georgia, as the GA-502 Fulton County Continuum of Care Collaborative Applicant (FC CoC) through its Department of Community Development and the Fulton County Board of Health (FCBOH) to validate housing status assessment questions to inform future public health actions; and for other purposes. (APPROVED UPON ADOPTION OF THE CONSENT AGENDA)
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Requirement for Board Action (Cite specific Board policy, statute or code requirement)
Pursuant to O.C.G.A. § 36-10-1 all contracts entered by the County shall be in writing and entered in its minutes.
Strategic Priority Area related to this item (If yes, note strategic priority area below)
Health and Human Services
Commission Districts Affected
All Districts ☒
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Is this a purchasing item?
No
Summary & Background (First sentence includes Agency recommendation. Provide an executive summary of the action that gives an overview of the relevant details for the item.)
This DUA between Fulton County, Georgia, on behalf of the FC CoC, and the Fulton County Board of Health aims to validate housing status assessment questions and strengthen future public health case interview questions and surveillance data fields to inform future public health actions. The BOH seeks to match BOH and CDC survey responses to data stored by the FC CoC through its Homeless Management Information Systems (HMIS) concerning housing status, which the FC CoC agrees to share.
Background
The Fulton County Board of Health (FCBOH) requested epidemiologic assistance (Epi-Aid) from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to collect information on housing status from people at select Fulton County, Georgia (Fulton) and Atlanta, Georgia (Atlanta) sites.
Scope of Work:
The matched survey and HMIS data (the matched data set) will be analyzed to determine the percent agreement of a person’s housing status reported in the survey compared to the FC CoC’s HMIS data.Personally identifiable information (PII) will only be viewed by one CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer (EISO) acting at FCBOH's request. This EISO will perform the matching analysis and deidentify the data set so that it can be further analyzed and viewed by FCBOH and CDC (see addendum document named Epi 1).
Community Impact: The DUA will enhance the CoC’s capacity to utilize non-repetitive data in order to eradicate redundant information about specific individuals.
Department Recommendation: Approve the requested action.
Project Implications: Approval is critical to strengthening the collaborative work of the Atlanta and Fulton County Continuums of Care, the Fulton County Board of Health, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Community Issues/Concerns: None
Department Issues/Concerns: None
Fiscal Impact / Funding Source
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