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WHAT IS THE PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM?
The Epidemic Intelligence
Service (EIS) is a unique two year, post-graduate program of service and
on-the-job training for health professionals interested in epidemiology.
Since 1951, approximately 2,500 EIS Officers --
CDC’s "Disease Detectives" --
have graduated from this program. Seventy officers have been
Hispanic/Latino. In FY 2001, 72 officers graduated from the EIS Program,
nine of whom were Hispanic/Latino. Of the 73 new officers
entering in July 2002, three were Hispanic/Latino. In addition to the on-the-job
training gained by investigation of disease outbreaks, natural and
man-made disasters, and other public health emergencies, the EIS Program
provides formal instruction to EIS Officers through courses in
epidemiology, biostatistics, public health ethics and law, evaluation of
surveillance systems, scientific writing and prevention effectiveness
The
need for well trained minority epidemiologists, especially
Hispanic/Latino, remains high. In an effort to meet these and future
demands, the EIS Program will work to increase the number of minorities
entering the program and those being assigned to state and local health
departments in future years. This will be done in concert with increased
marketing of the program to the Hispanic Serving Health Professions
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