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The California Emerging Infections Program (CEIP), funded under
a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC), is one of eleven federally funded Emerging
Infections Program (EIP) sites. As part of the EIP network,
the CEIP has been an invaluable national resource for surveillance,
prevention, and control of emerging infectious diseases since
1994.
The local, state, and federal partners who make up CEIP include:
the departments of public health of the counties of Alameda,
Contra Costa, and San Francisco and of the City of Berkeley;
the University of California Berkeley School of Public Health;
the U.C. San Francisco School of Medicine; the northern California
Kaiser Permanente Health Care organization; the California Department
of Public Health Division of Communicable Disease Control; CDC;
the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA); and the U.S. Food
and Drug Administration (FDA). The EIP network aims to be a
national resource for surveillance, prevention, and control
of emerging infectious diseases. CEIP was initiated in 1994
with Co-Directors Duc Vugia, MD, MPH and Arthur Reingold, MD,
Health Program Manager Gretchen Rothrock, MPH, and 7 employees,
and now employs over 40.
Areas
of Research And Surveillance
The Program consists of a broad spectrum of research and surveillance
activities. Included are: Active Bacterial
Core Surveillance (ABCs), Foodborne
Diseases Active Surveillance Network (FoodNet), Chronic
Liver Disease, Unexplained Encephalitis,
Unexplained Deaths, Sentinel
Surveillance for Hepatitis, MRSA, Surveillance
for vCJD, Surveillance for Cervical
Dysplasia and HPV, Influenza Hospitalization
Surveillance, and many related projects.
EIP
Sites
Currently there are 9 other EIP sites in addition to California
EIP. These are located in:
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