The CDC Field Epidemiology Manual - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0190624248 ISBN 13: 9780190624248

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2018

Synopsis

A NEW AND ESSENTIAL RESOURCE FOR THE PRACTICE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PUBLIC HEALTH

The CDC Field Epidemiology Manual is a definitive guide to investigating acute public health events on the ground and in real time. Assembled and written by experts from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as well as other leading public health agencies, it offers current and field-tested guidance for every stage of an outbreak investigation -- from identification to intervention and other core considerations along the way.

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About the Author

About the Editors

Sonja A. Rasmussen, MD, MS, was the Director of CDC's Division of Public Health Information Dissemination in the Center for Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Laboratory Services (CSELS) and Editor-in-Chief of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) Series while serving as the editor of this book. She is currently CDC's Deputy Director for Infectious Diseases and Director of CDC's Office of Infectious Diseases. She has held leadership positions in several CDC emergency responses, including 2009 H1N1 influenza, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) Coronavirus, and Ebola and Zika viruses.

Richard A. Goodman, MD, JD, MPH, is Professor of Medicine at Emory University's School of Medicine and Rollins School of Public Health. Dr. Goodman held leadership and senior staff positions at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 1978 to 2015, serving as Editor-in-Chief of CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) Series for a decade, Co-Director of CDC's Public Health Law Program, and Associate Director of CDC's Epidemiology Program Office.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0190624248
• ISBN 13: 9780190624248
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 528
• Editor: Rasmussen, Goodman