CSTE announces the release of the 2009 Epidemiology Capacity Assessment. This report is the most recent in a series of capacity assessments that enumerate and characterize epidemiologists, measure core epidemiology capacity, and assess competency-specific training .

The CSTE Official List of Nationally Notifiable Conditions approved in June 2009 is now posted and available for public health practitioners.  Please click the above link to view the list.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is providing national leadership in an effort to develop and implement strategies and action plans to improve external-cause-of-injury coding (E-coding) in state morbidity data systems...

Developed by the North Carolina Center for Public Health Preparedness and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Influenza Division, Office of Global Health, and Office of Workforce and Career Development, and the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists.

The Guidelines provide a useful framework for building state and local capacity in public health programs in occupational safety and health.  The Guidelines document may be accessed at http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/2008-148/ or on the Occupational Health page under publications.

CSTE announces the release of the Council to Improve Foodborne Outbreak Response (CIFOR) Guidelines for Foodborne Disease Outbreak Response. This document is intended to provide model practices used in foodborne disease outbreaks.  For more information please click here.

The HIV subcommittee is announcing the release of the 2009 National Assessment of HIV/AIDS Surveillance Capacity. This assessment represents findings about the current resources, needs, infrastructure and practices of U.S. HIV surveillance programs. In addition to the report, please find links to the assessment questions and summary statistics.

CSTE and CDC are pleased to release a newly developed toolkit to help epidemiologists and other public health practitioners understand and incorporate the CDC/CSTE Competencies for Applied Epidemiologists in Governmental Public Health Agencies (AECs) into everyday practice.

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