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CDC Acting Director, Anne Schuchat and CSELS Director, Michael Iademarco welcome attendees
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Captive audience during opening session
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Dr. Sandro Galea delivers thought-provoking talk in the Alexander D. Langmuir lecture
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Pattie Simone shares conference highlights during her closing remarks
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ABC Nightline News interviews Chief of EIS program, Josh Mott
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EIS officers serve as expert panel for media availability session (CSELS, DSEPD Director, Pattie Simone moderates)
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EIS officers answer questions after media availability session
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Networking in the recruitment forum
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EIS officer, Francis Annor, presents findings
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Fellow, Diana Riner, presents scientific work at inaugural Laboratory Leadership Service session
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Jennifer McQuiston (EIS 1998) receives 2017 Stephen B. Thacker EIS Champion Award
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Conference attendees network between sessions
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Session attendee poses insightful questions and comments after presentation
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Nina Smith gives tips and resources to candidates interested in applying to EIS in the future
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Conference attendee studies poster presentation
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Standing room only during inaugural Laboratory Leadership Service session
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EIS officer, Rachel Burke, discusses Zika work during poster symposium
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MMWR exhibit and staff
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Laboratory Leadership Service exhibit and staff
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EIS exhibit and staff
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Epidemiology Workforce Branch as conference coordinators and host program
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CDC Learning Connection photo booth fun with Teresa Smith, CSELS, DSEPD Associate Director for Communications
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CDC Learning Connection photo booth fun with Abbigail Tumpey, CSELS Associate Director for Communications
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CDC Learning Connection photo booth fun with conference attendees
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CDC Learning Connection photo booth fun with Gaby Benenson, Valerie Johnson, Barry Copeland
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ABC Nightline News interviews EIS officers, Tolulope Adebanjo and Catherine Bozio
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Book signings by EIS alumnus, Eugene Gangarosa (EIS 1964) at EIS Alumni Association booth
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CDC Broadcast Services captures video footage during interview with EIS officer, Ashley Styczynski
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CDC Broadcast Services captures video footage during interview with EIS officer, Annabelle de St Maurice
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Host site staff recruiting incoming EIS officers
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Conference attendees network between sessions
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Networking in the recruitment forum
The EIS Conference is a primary forum for EIS officers to present their epidemiologic activities. National and international participants represent EIS officers, their mentors, EIS alumni, and public health professionals.
Save the Date: 2018 67th Annual EIS Conference
April 16-19, 2018
Hilton Atlanta
255 Courtland Street NE
Atlanta, GA 30303
2017 66th Annual EIS Conference: Resources and Highlights
April 24-27, 2017
America’s Mart
- Agenda-at-a-Glance [PDF – 1 page]
- 2017 Conference Program [PDF – 140 pages]
- Digital Press Kit
- Continuing Education (CE) information [PDF – 2 pages]
- 2017 Annual Update [PDF – 44 pages]
- Award Recipients:
- Alexander D. Langmuir Prize — Brigette L. Gleason (EIS 2014)
- Distinguished Friend of EIS Award — Marcelle “Marci” Layton, MD (EIS 1992) and Mary Anne Duncan, DVM, MPH (EIS 2004)
- Donald C. Mackel Memorial Award — Jesse Bonwitt (EIS 2016)
- Iain Hardy Memorial Award — Paul A. Gastañaduy (EIS 2011)
- J. Virgil Peavy Memorial Statistical Award — Julie Lynn Self (EIS 2015)
- James H. Steele Veterinary Public Health Award — Ilana Schafer (EIS 2012)
- Mitch Singal Award for Excellence in Occupational and Environmental Health — Jessica L. Rinsky (EIS 2015)
- Outstanding Poster Presentation — Janna Kerins (EIS 2016)
- Paul C. Schnitker Award — Lawrence Purpura (EIS 2015)
- Stephen B. Thacker EIS Champion Award — Jennifer McQuiston (EIS 1998)
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2017 International Night Awards
- Director’s Award for Excellence in Epidemiology and Public Health Response – Uganda Public Health Fellowship Program, Field Epidemiology Track
- Jeffrey P. Koplan Award for Excellence in Scientific Poster Presentation – Hamufare Maguri, Zimbabwe, Hospital-Affected Neonatal Sepsis Outbreak in an Intensive Care Unit, Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals, Zimbabwe, 2016
- William H. Foege Award for Best Scientific Oral Presentation – Rajesh Sahu, India, Outbreak Investigation of Acute Diarrheal Disease during a Religious Festival Associated with Drinking Contaminated Pipeline Water, Radhakund, Uttar Pradeshy, India, November 2016
The Langmuir Lecture is the preeminent public health lecture in the United States. The first lecture was given in 1972, and it has been a highlight of the annual EIS Conference each year since then. The lecture is named for Alexander D. Langmuir, MD, MPH (1910–1993), a public health visionary and leader who established the Epidemiology Program at what was then called the Communicable Disease Center in 1949; he remained as CDC’s chief epidemiologist until his retirement in 1970.
Notably, Dr. Langmuir founded the EIS, established national disease surveillance for the United States, and brought the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report to CDC. Langmuir Lecture speakers have included Abraham Lilienfeld, Sir Richard Doll, Geoffrey Rose, Jonas Salk, and many other prominent public health thinkers and researchers. See more about Dr. Langmuir and Epidemiology at CDC in MMWR.
The 2017 Langmuir Lecturer for the 66th Annual EIS Conference is Dr. Sandro Galea, the Robert A. Knox Professor and Dean at the Boston University School of Public Health. Dr. Galea is both a physician and epidemiologist. He was named one of TIME magazine’s epidemiology innovators and has been listed by Thomson Reuters as one of the “World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds” for the Social Sciences. He has published over 600 scientific journal articles, 50 chapters, and 10 books and his research has been featured extensively in current periodicals and newspapers. Prior to his appointment at Boston University, Dr. Galea served in numerous other academic and leadership capacities. Galea’s lecture addressed “Moving from Epidemiology to Quantitative Population Health Science.”
The 2016 Langmuir Lecturer for the 65th Annual EIS Conference was Dr. Margaret Hamburg, an internationally recognized leader in public health and medicine. Most recently, as Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, she was known for advancing regulatory science, modernizing regulatory pathways, and globalization of the agency. Before this, Dr. Hamburg was founding vice president and senior scientist at the Nuclear Threat Initiative, a foundation dedicated to reducing nuclear, chemical and biological threats. Other positions have included Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (HHS), Health Commissioner for New York City, and Assistant Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease.
Jeff Dean, PhD, a Google Senior Fellow, presented the 2015 Langmuir Lecture. Dr. Dean helped develop Epi Info as a high school and college student. He spoke on “Large-Scale Machine Learning and Its Application to Public Health.” See Epi Info™ Museum for key events in the history of Epi Info™ statistical software.
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- Page last updated: September 27, 2017
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