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Article: AMIA Announces Partnership with CDC to Enhance Public Health Informatics
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- October 12, 2007
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To: NATIONAL EDITORS
Contact: Tia Abner of AMIA, +1-301-657-1291 ext. 105, tia@amia.org
BETHESDA, Md., Oct. 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- AMIA is pleased
to announce the launch of a 5-year cooperative agreement with the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The purpose of the
program is to strengthen the breadth and depth of the public health
workforce by providing training in public health informatics and
encourage new explorations of innovations at the intersection of
public health and health informatics. The project expects to:
-- Train and educate the public health workforce, with a focus on
localand state health agencies