“There should be-nurses are the single largest group of health professionals. “I wish there were more nurses,” Goode says. Robert Lawrence, MD, associate dean for Professional Practice and Programs, says he writes half a dozen recommendation letters a year, and there are usually three or four acceptances-mostly for full-time graduate and doctoral students. In August, Goode began his assignment at the North Carolina Division of Public Health. Officers-mostly doctors, researchers and scientists-serve two-year assignments with health agencies across the country combating everything from disease outbreaks to bioterrorism. The EIS is the epidemics detective agency of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Goode, who earned an Internet-based MPH from the Bloomberg School in 2002, is one of seven nurses in the 2004 cohort of 88 EIS officers. The difference: eight years of experience and an MPH.
When he applied again in 2003, the EIS took him. “I knew I needed a master’s degree, but I thought, what the heck? They can only say no. “Poster Child” for the Internet MPH When Brant Goode applied to be an Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) officer in 1995, he didn’t expect to be accepted. Regardless of where they are assigned, all EIS officers participate in competency-based education and experiential on-the-job training.Newly minted EIS officer Brant Goode helps a student (left) during a School summer course. The remainder of the class is assigned to public health departments in the United States and its territories, or to other federal agencies or partner organizations. CDC also has offices in Anchorage, Alaska Cincinnati, Ohio Fort Collins, Colorado Hyattsville, Maryland Morgantown, West Virginia Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Research Triangle Park, North Carolina San Juan, Puerto Rico Spokane, Washington and Washington, DC. Although international work may be part of an EIS assignment, no EIS officers are based outside the United States.Įach year, approximately 75% of the new EIS class is assigned to CDC headquarters locations in Atlanta or outside Atlanta. State, local, or territorial health departmentsĮIS officers may be sent to another location on a temporary assignment.CDC headquarters in Atlanta or other locations across the United States.
EIS officers provide service through on-the-job experience in their assignments.
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