Training
“The most significant lesson I learned as a CDC Experience Fellow is that public health problems are solved incrementally, through thorough data collection, precise analyses, and targeted interventions.” – Kerry Schnell, CDC Experience Fellow in the Waterborne Disease Prevention Branch (2012-2013), featured on the CDC Foundation blogExternal
The Waterborne Disease Prevention Branch (WDPB) has a long-standing interest in assuring that we train the next generation of waterborne disease prevention experts. To ensure that this pool of experts is available for the future, we train individuals from the following programs and fellowships:
Career Training Fellowships
- ASPH/CDC Public Health Fellowship ProgramExternal
- Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) Applied Epidemiology FellowshipsExternal
- Emerging Infectious Diseases Advanced Laboratory Training FellowshipExternal
- Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS)
- Evaluation Fellowship Program
- Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE)External
- Presidential Management Fellows Program
- Preventive Medicine Residency and Fellowship
- Public Health Prevention Service
Postdoctoral Research Fellowships
- American Society of Microbiology/CDC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship ProgramExternal
- Emerging Infectious Diseases Postdoctoral Laboratory Research Fellowship ProgramExternal
- Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE)External
Student Internships and Fellowships
- CDC Experience Applied Epidemiology Fellowship
- CDC-Hubert Global Health Fellowship
- Epidemiology Elective Program for Senior Medical and Veterinary Students
- James A. Ferguson Emerging Infectious Disease FellowshipExternal
- Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE)External
Additional University Training
WDPB staff serve as instructors and adjunct professors to teach pertinent WDPB mission-related classes, particularly at the graduate level. We work with work study programs from Emory University, Georgia State University, and the Georgia Institute of Technology to give CDC experiences to students. We also serve as thesis advisors on MPH and PhD thesis projects of importance to the WDPB mission.