Speaker Name(s): Margaret Schmelzer, RN, MS - Director of PH Nursing and Health Policy, WI DPH Description: The purpose of the Horizons conferences is to showcase state-level data concerning: health status; health disparties; environmental indicators; evaluation of the three goals of the State Health Plan; strategies to strengthen epidemiology capacity; eHealth as an emerging technology for public health; and, the first release of the results of the statewide public health system capacity assessment conducted in October 2006.