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Seymour G Williams1, Robert E Fontaine1, Reina M Turcios Ruiz1

  • 1Seymour G. Williams, MD, is Team Lead, Field Epidemiology Training Program; Robert E. Fontaine, MD, is Senior Advisor, Field Epidemiology Training Program; Reina M. Turcios Ruiz, MD, is Team Lead, Monitoring and Evaluation; all in the Workforce and Institute Development Branch, Division of Global Health Protection, Center for Global Health, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, GA. Henry Walke, MD, is Director, Division of Preparedness and Emerging Infections, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, CDC, Atlanta, GA. Kashef Ijaz, MD, is Principal Deputy Director, and Henry C. Baggett, MD, is Chief, Workforce and Institute Development Branch; both in the Division of Global Health Protection, Center for Global Health, CDC, Atlanta, GA. Dr. Williams and Dr. Baggett are senior co-authors. The findings and conclusions in this report are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Health Security
|February 1, 2020
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The World Health Organization

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Epidemic management/responseField epidemiologyGlobal health securityWorkforce development

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