I can't believe they've just cancelled the Epidemic Intelligence Service program at CDC.
This program trains the best & brightest epidemiologists, who then go on to have distinguished careers in public health, serving at CDC, in state health departments, overseas, ...
This program trains the best & brightest epidemiologists, who then go on to have distinguished careers in public health, serving at CDC, in state health departments, overseas, ...
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This program trains the best public health people in the world.
This action will make the U.S. & the world more vulnerable to public health disasters.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epi_Info
One of the primary use cases for this software was EIS officers gathering data and conducting investigations into disease outbreaks.
"An analysis conducted in 2003 documented over 1,000,000 downloads of Epi Info from 180 countries."
I gave a talk to many old friends I knew from my time at CDC & to new EIS class members on "Large Scale Machine Learning and its Application to Public Health"
https://youtu.be/kO-Iw9xlxy4?si=3WFYOt3acWnwuo_Z
... and for whom 😉🇨🇳 🇷🇺
Maybe that's what they ✝️🙏 want! Less Science!
Rather than complaining on BlueSky, why don't you quit in protest? That would make some waves.
From Google Maps just now:
he said he will stop all research into infectious disease for 8 years
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