About DEISS
The Division of Emerging Infections and Surveillance Services (DEISS) helps build and enhance collaborative partnerships and programs to improve public health capacity for preventing and responding to infectious disease threats. Comprising a broad range of domestic and international programs, the division involves partnerships across CDC and with external organizations both nationally and globally. More
DEISS in Action
Focusing on Infectious Diseases in Arctic Regions
This Emerging Infectious Diseases article highlights infectious disease challenges faced by residents of Arctic regions in recognition of International Polar Year 2007–2008.
Facilitating Global Laboratory Integration
This Global Health E-brief article describes a laboratory network in Rwanda that has integrated resources to create a functional laboratory system linking district and provincial laboratories with a national reference lab that performs the highest level of testing.
Preparing Young Scientists for Public Health Careers
This CCID Spectrum article features Ferguson Fellows who completed the summer 2006 program.
Training Laboratory Scientists from around the world
This CCID Spectrum article features an IEIP workshop which brought together laboratory scientists from around the world, including CDC staff and visitors from Bangladesh, China, Egypt, Guatemala, Kenya, and Thailand.
Fellowships
DEISS sponsors several fellowship opportunities with partners such as the American Society for Microbiology, the Association for Public Health Laboratories, and the Association of Minority Health Professions Schools (AMHPS).
Information about additional CDC fellowships can be found at www.cdc.gov/phtrain.
James A. Ferguson Emerging Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program
Introduces underrepresented minority graduate students to careers in public health and infectious diseases, and to opportunities at CDC.
Emerging Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program
Provides bachelors, masters, and post-doctoral level scientists training opportunities in public health laboratory research and practice at CDC or in state and local public health laboratories.
ASM/CCID Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship Program in Infectious Diseases and Public Health Microbiology
Provides post-doctoral scientists opportunities to conduct research in infectious disease or public health microbiology at one of CDC's national laboratories.
Emerging Infectious Diseases
About the journal: Emerging Infectious Diseases represents the scientific communications component of CDC's efforts against the threat of emerging infections.
Contact Us:
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
National Center for Preparedness, Detection, and Control of Infectious Diseases
Division of Emerging Infections and Surveillance Services
1600 Clifton Rd MS-C12
Atlanta, GA 30333 - 800-CDC-INFO
(800-232-4636)
TTY: (888) 232-6348
24 Hours/Every Day - cdcinfo@cdc.gov
