Field Photos


EIS officer Robert Bonacci (left) and DSTDP colleague Ken Myers (right) carrying water, food, and clothing supplies as they conduct outreach to people experiencing homelessness during an HIV outbreak among people who inject drugs in Kanawha County, West Virginia in June 2021.


EIS officer Robert Bonacci (right) and DSTDP colleague Ken Myers (left) search abandoned homes while doing street outreach during an HIV outbreak among people who inject drugs in Kanawha County, West Virginia in June 2021.


EIS Officer Julia Petras (right) and microbiologist Mindy Elrod (left) collect soil samples during an Epi-Aid in Georgia as part of the multi-state melioidosis outbreak investigation in August 2021.
EIS officer Erin Ricketts collects water samples from a drain to test for Legionella bacteria during an environmental investigation of a respiratory illness in August of 2021.


EIS officer Erin Ricketts collects water samples from a hot tub to test for bromine levels during an environmental investigation of a respiratory illness in August of 2021.


EIS officer Erin Ricketts holds up a bag from a malfunctioning hydrocollator during an environmental investigation of a respiratory illness in August of 2021.


EIS officers Caroline Pratt (left) and Stacey Konkle prepare to collect nasopharyngeal swabs to test for COVID-19 in February 2021.


EIS officer Alyson Cavanaugh, along with other members of the CDC/ATSDR team, recruit participation in a survey to understand health impacts following an event that resulted in jet fuel contamination of the drinking water in one of the affected communities in Oahu, Hawaii in January 2022.


EIS officers Alyson Cavanaugh and Michele Bolduc hand out flyers at a clean water distribution site to recruit participation in a survey to understand health impacts following an event that resulted in jet fuel contamination of the drinking water on Oahu, Hawaii in January 2022.


LLS Fellow David Payne installs Point of Care testing instruments on a Mobile Testing Unit (MTU) in July 2021. The DC Public Health Laboratory uses the MTU to provide rapid, on-site COVID-19 testing to residents of Washington DC.


LLS Fellow David Payne installs Point of Care testing instruments on a Mobile Testing Unit (MTU) in July 2021. The DC Public Health Laboratory uses the MTU to provide rapid, on-site COVID-19 testing to residents of Washington DC.


LLS Fellow David Payne trains laboratory staff to conduct Point of Care testing for COVID-19 on the DC Public Health Laboratory’s Mobile Testing Unit in September 2020.


EIS officer Heidi Moline samples water from an underground cistern for a Legionella investigation in February 2022.


EIS officers Kelsey Sumner (left) and Miranda Delahoy (right) collect student information and specimens to investigate an influenza A outbreak on a university campus during the COVID-19 pandemic in November 2021.


EIS officer Kristin Marks waits outside a home improvement store in Louisiana in December 2021 to ask people what they know about safely cleaning up mold in homes following Hurricane Ida.


EIS Officer Julia Petras creates timelines to identify commonalties across the cases involved in the multi-state melioidosis outbreak investigation in September 2021.


EIS Officer Marisa Donnelly samples bathroom surfaces to detect the virus that causes COVID-19 in order to understand more about transmission risk in February 2021.


EIS officer Dipesh Solanky reviews materials at a COVID-19 and tuberculosis screening checkpoint outside an HIV clinic in Abuja, Nigeria during a deployment to provide technical assistance in infection prevention and control in February 2022.


EIS Officers Karen Wu and Jeremy Gold look at conditions on a loading dock as a part of an environmental assessment in response to a hospital-associated mucormycosis outbreak in Little Rock, Arkansas in March 2021.


EIS Officers Jeremy Gold, Karen Wu, and Allison James check the humidity and take samples from linens in a patient room while investigating a hospital-associated mucormycosis outbreak in Little Rock, Arkansas in March 2021.


EIS officer Elizabeth Ohlsen (left) conducts rapid antigen tests during an investigation of an outbreak of COVID-19 on a charter fishing vessel in August 2021.


EIS officer Stephen Bart swabs surfaces around a Connecticut hospital to test for the yeast Candida auris in September 2020.


EIS officer Heidi Moline plans next steps to determine the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines among nursing home residents in May 2021.


EIS officer AdeSubomi Adeyemo waits to perform Global Vaccine and Global Testing Order compliance checks for international flights at the Dallas Fort Worth Quarantine Station in March 2022.


EIS officer Stephen Bart investigates links between students infected during a COVID-19 outbreak at a Connecticut college in September 2021.


EIS officer Auguste Brihn collects samples to test for Giardia parasites in cow manure in June 2021.


EIS officer Lauren Jansen inspects produce during a campylobacteriosis outbreak investigation in September 2021.


EIS Officer Jason Malenfant (left) and supervisor Mary Choi (center) meet with the Director of the Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Laboratory, N’Faly Magassouba (right), in Conakry, Guinea in February of 2022 to plan post-outbreak surveillance activities following West Africa’s first outbreak of Marburg virus disease.


EIS officer Florence Whitehill sanitizes gloves after the collection of environmental swab samples in the residence of a patient with Monkeypox virus infection in July of 2021.


EIS officers Caroline Pratt and Stacey Konkle, along with CDC’s Dana Haberling, sort specimen collection supplies for a COVID-19 household transmission study in San Diego, CA in February 2021.