The CSTE Official List of Nationally Notifiable Conditions approved in June 2012 is now posted and available for public health practitioners.  Please click the above link to view the list.

Public Health Reporting and National Notification for Novel Influenza A Virus Infection

This guidance document provides information about the design, conduct, interpretation, and application of biomonitoring activities in a public health setting. A checklist of key steps to developing a biomonitoring program or project is also included.

This success stories document highlights achievements of state occupational public health programs in 11 of the states that receive NIOSH funding. These examples are just a few of the ways that state public health programs contribute towards improving the safety and health of workers across the U.S.

Journal of Public Health Management and Practice - “Blueprint Version 2.0”: Updating Public Health Surveillance for the 21st Century  -  Perry F. Smith, MD; James L. Hadler, MD, MPH; Martha Stanbury, MSPH; Robert T. Rolfs, MD, MPH;
Richard S. Hopkins, MD, MSPH; the CSTE Surveillance Strategy Group

The 2010 CSTE Epidemiology Enumeration Assessment aimed to enumerate state- and local-level epidemiologists working in the United States and to determine the effects of the fiscal crisis on the state and territorial epidemiology workforce.

The ELR Taskforce was created in 2010 to address the challenges states face in implementing ELR, focusing on five areas: ELR and Meaningful Use, Resource Needs and Capacity, Standards, Legal Considerations, and Working with LIS Vendors and Large Labs.

This CSTE and NACCHO co-hosted session contains an application demonstration and details about the technical components of BioSense 2.0, the implementation process, and the resources available through the BioSense Technical Assistance Team. Click here to view.

Foodborne pathogens cause a substantial burden of disease in the United States. The objective of the 2010 food safety epidemiology capacity assessment was to evaluate the capacity to detect, investigate, and respond to foodborne disease as an update from the 2002 CSTE report. This report includes results and recommendations from the 2010 assessment.

In August 2010, CSTE Environmental Epidemiology Subcommittee conducted an assessment of radiation planning and preparedness in state public health departments. This effort is an attempt to assess the current capabilities, resources and level of public health preparedness to respond to radiation emergencies.

Over the past century, public health agencies at the state and territorial levels in the United States have developed epidemiology capacities to improve disease control and health promotion. The scope of epidemiologic investigations during this time has broadened from primarily infectious diseases to chronic diseases, maternal and child health (MCH), and other issues

CSTE announces the release of the 2009 Epidemiology Capacity Assessment. This report is the most recent in a series of capacity assessments that enumerate and characterize epidemiologists, measure core epidemiology capacity, and assess competency-specific training.

Chronic disease epidemiology has been an emerging subject matter area in public health since the 1980s, with the creation of the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in 1988

CSTE and CDC are pleased to release a newly developed toolkit to help epidemiologists and other public health practitioners understand and incorporate the CDC/CSTE Competencies for Applied Epidemiologists in Governmental Public Health Agencies (AECs) into everyday practice.

CSTE announces the release of the CIFOR Toolkit to aid in the implementation of the Guidelines for Foodborne Disease Outbreak Response. This workbook is intended to accompany the Guidelines and help jurisdictions identify ways to improve foodborne disease outbreak response. To view the Toolkit or the Guidelines please click here.

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