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Article: Epidemiologists Say an Urgent Investment in Epidemiology Capacity Is Needed to Meet Increases in Public Health Demands
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- April 2, 2007
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To: STATE EDITORS
Contact: Jennifer Lemmings, MPH, Deputy Director of Programs, of
Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists, +1-770-458-3811
ATLANTA, April 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Council of State
and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) has announced detailed
findings of its 2006 national assessment on state epidemiology
capacity which calls for state and federal agencies to increase the
number of trained epidemiologists in state health agencies to meet
increasing public health demands and specified essential services of
public health. Epidemiologists are better known as the 'disease
detectives' who are integral in stopping or minimizing a human
outbreak of disease such as ...