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EIS Director, CAPT Douglas Hamilton, discusses Warner Brother's™ movie Contagion.
The Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) is a unique 2-year post-graduate training program of service and on-the-job learning for health professionals interested in the practice of applied epidemiology.
Since 1951, over 3,000 EIS officers have responded to requests for epidemiologic assistance within the United States and throughout the world. EIS officers are on the public health frontlines, conducting epidemiologic investigations, research, and public health surveillance both nationally and internationally.
Recent EIS Investigations
- Survey of adoptive parents and medical providers on the health status of Haitian orphans entering the United States after the Haiti earthquake
- Investigation of potential hepatitis B virus and hepatitis C virus transmission associated with vessel conduits used for solid organ transplantation
- Community-wide assessment of health impact and public health emergency response following extended disruption of drinking water service during an extreme winter freeze in Alabama
- Investigation of cases of novel influenza A (H1N1) in multiple states
- Increased incidence of Haemophilus influenzae type b in Minnesota
- Investigation of infections with Staphylococcus aureus among patients undergoing procedures at a pain management clinic in West Virginia
- Outbreak of carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae at a long term care facility in Illinois
- Mass exposures to a rabies positive bat carcass in Montana
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