Department of Geography and Planning, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina (Ms Ryan and Dr Sugg); North Carolina Institute for Climate Studies, North Carolina State University, Raleigh (Dr Runkle); and NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), Asheville, North Carolina (Dr Matthews).
Correspondence: Sophia C. Ryan, BA, Department of Geography and Planning, Appalachian State University, Rankin Science West, Boone, NC 28608 ([email protected]).
The North Carolina Disease Event Tracking and Epidemiologic Collection Tool (NC DETECT) is an advanced, statewide public health surveillance system. NC DETECT is funded with federal funds by the North Carolina Division of Public Health (NC DPH), Public Health Emergency Preparedness Grant (PHEP), and managed through a collaboration between NC DPH and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Emergency Medicine's Carolina Center for Health Informatics (UNC CCHI). The findings and conclusions in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the views of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Public Health.
The authors thank their external funder for supporting this work. This work was supported by the Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award (grant #2044839) from the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) award (grant # 1R15ES033817-01).
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
Human Ethics Statement: Data were exempt under human subjects category #4 for secondary data from Appalachian State University's institutional review board (IRB#19-0270).
