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    Division of Scientific Education and Professional Development (DSEPD) mission statement: Improve health outcomes through a competent, sustainable, and empowered public health workforce.

    DSEPD Activities
    DSEPD Support and Services

    What we offer state and local health departments and other partners

    Strategic Workforce Activities

    DSEPD sponsors multiple approaches that impact people, tools, and systems for strengthening the workforce to improve the public's health

    Fellowships and Student Programs

    Experiential service and learning opportunities in epidemiology, informatics, economic analysis, policy, and leadership and management

    Training and Continuing Education for Health Professionals

    Find training and satisfy continuing education requirements

    Training for Teachers and Students

    Resources to support public health and epidemiology training

    Additional Resources
    • Applied Epidemiology Competencies PrefaceCdc-pdfExternal and DocumentCdc-pdfExternal
    • Core Competencies for Public Health ProfessionalsCdc-pdfExternal
    • Competency Guidelines for Public Health Laboratory Professionals
    Page last reviewed: March 18, 2019
    Content source: Deputy Director for Public Health Science and Surveillance, Center for Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Laboratory Services, Division of Scientific Education and Professional Development

     

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    • Support and Services
    • Strategic Workforce Activitiesplus icon
      • Public Health Workforce Development Action Plan
      • Action Plan Accomplishments
      • Public Health and Health Care Collaboration: The Workforce Perspective
      • Workforce Development Science
      • The Public Health Workforce Summit
      • National Public Health Workforce Strategic Roadmap
      • Strategic Framework
      • Logic Model
    • Fellowships and Student Programs
    • Principles of Epidemiology in Public Health Practiceplus icon
      • Lesson 1plus icon
        • Definition of Epidemiology
        • Historical Evolution of Epidemiology
        • Uses
        • Core Epidemiologic Functions
        • The Epidemiologic Approach
        • Descriptive Epidemiology
        • Analytic Epidemiology
        • Concepts of Disease Occurrence
        • Natural History and Spectrum of Disease
        • Chain of Infection
        • Epidemic Disease Occurrence
        • Summary, References, and Websites
        • Exercise Answers
        • Self-Assessment Quiz
        • Answers to Self-Assessment Quiz
      • Lesson 2plus icon
        • Overview
        • Organizing Data
        • Types of Variables
        • Frequency Distributions
        • Properties of Frequency Distributions
        • Methods for Summarizing Data
        • Measures of Central Location
        • Measures of Spread
        • Choosing the Right Measure of Central Location and Spread
        • Summary and References
        • Exercise Answers
        • Self-Assessment Quiz
        • Answers to Self-Assessment Quiz
      • Lesson 3plus icon
        • Frequency Measures
        • Morbidity Frequency Measures
        • Mortality Frequency Measures
        • Natality (Birth) Measures
        • Measures of Association
        • Measures of Public Health Impact
        • Summary
        • Exercise Answers
        • Self-Assessment Quiz
        • Answers to Self-Assessment Quiz
      • Lesson 4plus icon
        • Introduction to Tables and Graphs
        • Tables
        • Graphs
        • Other Data Displays
        • Using Computer Technology
        • Summary
        • Exercise Answers
        • Self-Assessment Quiz
        • Answers to Self-Assessment Quiz
      • Lesson 5plus icon
        • Introduction
        • Purpose and Characteristics of Public Health Surveillance
        • Identifying Health Problems for Surveillance
        • Identifying or Collecting Data for Surveillance
        • Analyzing and Interpreting Data
        • Disseminating Data and Interpretations
        • Evaluating and Improving Surveillance
        • Summary
        • Appendix A. CDC Fact Sheet on Chlamydia
        • Appendix B. Examples of Surveillance
        • Appendix C. Examples of Surveillance
        • Appendix D. Major Health Data Systems in the United States
        • Appendix E. Limitations of Notifiable Disease Surveillance and Recommendations for Improvement
        • Exercise Answers
        • Self-Assessment Quiz
        • Answers to Self-Assessment Quiz
      • Lesson 6plus icon
        • Introduction to Investigating an Outbreak
        • Steps of an Outbreak Investigation
        • Summary
        • Exercise Answers
        • Self-Assessment Quiz
        • Answers to Self-Assessment Quiz
      • Glossary
    • Academic Partnerships to Improve Health (APIH)plus icon
      • Overview
      • APIH’s National Academic Associations
      • Public Health Fellowship Programs
      • Workforce Improvement Projects (WIPs)plus icon
        • Public Health Initiative
        • CDC Milestones Project
    Resources
    • DSEPD Strategic Framework pdf[96 KB, 1 Page, 508]
    • DSEPD Support and Services pdf[252 KB, 2 Pages, 508]
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