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Volume 21, Number 9—September 2015
THEME ISSUE
Emerging Infections Program
Emerging Infections Program

Cultivation of an Adaptive Domestic Network for Surveillance and Evaluation of Emerging Infections

Robert W. PinnerComments to Author , Ruth Lynfield, James L. Hadler, William Schaffner, Monica M. Farley, Mark E. Frank, and Anne Schuchat
Author affiliations: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (R.W. Pinner, M.E. Frank, A. Schuchat); Minnesota Department of Health, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA (R. Lynfield); Yale University School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; (J.L. Hadler); Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, USA (W. Shaffner); Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta (M.M. Farley)

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Guiding principles for the Emerging Infections Program complied from notes of the meeting of the EIP Steering Group, November 13–14, 1996, United States*

Guiding principles
EIP network is a national resource for surveillance, prevention, and control of emerging infectious diseases. EIP activities go beyond the routine functions of health departments in ways that enable challenging new public health questions to be answered.
Core EIP activities target the most pressing issues in infectious disease and are selected with regard to what is appropriate, in particular, for the EIP network (including considerations such as the burden of disease, preventability, and providing resources not provided through categorical funding)
EIP maintains sufficient flexibility for emergency response and to address new problems as they arise.
Training is a key function of EIP (public health students, laboratory personnel, preventive medicine residencies, infectious disease fellows)
EIP network develops and evaluates public health practices and transfers what is learned to the public health community (e.g., computerized transfer of data, molecular epidemiology, accomplishing public health work successfully in a changing health care environment).
EIP network should give high priority to projects that lead directly to prevention of disease.

*EIP, Emerging Infections Program.

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