This year’s keynote speaker is Delton Atkinson, The Deputy Director for the Center for Disease Control (CDC) – National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS).
Deputy Director Atkinson oversees the re-engineering of the Division’s IT systems to improve the timeliness of the health statistics, and working with states to improve their vital statistics systems. He has 32 years of experience in health statistics and IT at the State, National, and non-profit levels in the area of vital statistics.
His presentation will focus on the importance of the vital statistics system, the challenges that we face, how we overcome those challenges to transition it from a “good” to a “great” system, and the role that Federal, State and Local vital statistics agencies must play in making this happen.