Training

The Waterborne Disease Prevention Branch (WDPB) has a long-standing interest in assuring that we train the next generation of waterborne disease prevention experts. To ensure that this pool of experts is available for the future, we train individuals from the following programs and fellowships:

Career Training Fellowships

• ASPH/CDC Public Health Fellowship Program
• Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) Applied Epidemiology Fellowships
• Emerging Infectious Diseases Advanced Laboratory Training Fellowship
• Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS)
• Evaluation Fellowship Program
• Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE)
• Presidential Management Fellows Program
• Preventive Medicine Residency and Fellowship
• Public Health Prevention Service

Postdoctoral Research Fellowships

• American Society of Microbiology/CDC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Program
• Emerging Infectious Diseases Postdoctoral Laboratory Research Fellowship Program
• Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE)

Student Internships and Fellowships

• CDC Experience Applied Epidemiology Fellowship
  • A Year in the Life of a CDC Experience Fellow
• CDC-Hubert Global Health Fellowship
• Epidemiology Elective Program for Senior Medical and Veterinary Students
• James A. Ferguson Emerging Infectious Disease Fellowship
• Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE)

Additional University Training

WDPB staff serve as instructors and adjunct professors to teach pertinent WDPB mission-related classes, particularly at the graduate level. We work with work study programs from Emory University, Georgia State University, and the Georgia Institute of Technology to give CDC experiences to students. We also serve as thesis advisors on MPH and PhD thesis projects of importance to the WDPB mission.

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