This webinar provides an overview of measles as a highly contagious viral disease and examines key strategies for outbreak detection, surveillance, and control. Participants will learn how measles spreads, its clinical presentation, and the role of integrated surveillance systems - such as laboratory, syndromic, and wastewater surveillance - in identifying and monitoring outbreaks. The session highlights evidence-based public health interventions, including isolation and quarantine protocols, vaccination strategies (e.g., MMR), and targeted response approaches to reduce transmission. It also outlines the roles of federal, state, and local agencies in outbreak response, emphasizes effective risk communication, and discusses ongoing challenges to measles elimination in the United States. By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
•Apply surveillance principles to a measles outbreak response
•Discuss public health strategies for measles control
•Identify uses for multiple surveillance systems for measles
•Understand roles of federal, state, and local government in outbreak responses
Dr. Tori is an internal medicine and preventive medicine physician who completed Internal Medicine and Preventive Medicine residencies at Boston Medical Center before moving to South Carolina for the CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service applied epidemiology fellowship. Upon completion of training, he decided to continue working in South Carolina as the CDC Career Epidemiology Field Officer for the Department of Public Health. At DPH, Dr. Tori is a medical epidemiologist working mainly in the Bureau of Communicable Disease Prevention and Control. Additionally, he currently serves as the state’s medical consultant in the Section of STD, HIV, and Viral Hepatitis and to the Bureau of Emergency Preparedness and Response. Dr. Tori enjoys the variety of content in public health work and supporting state and local public health efforts to prevent disease. He has been working the South Carolina measles outbreak response for the last 6 months.