Mission: To prepare epidemiologists for public health leadership positions in California.
Goals:
- To provide experience in epidemiology and public health practice during placements with governmental health agencies.
- To produce well-trained epidemiologists for employment in California public health agencies.
- To assist local health departments in emergency outbreak and other field of epidemiology investigations, if the opportunity arises.
California Epidemiologic Investigation Service (Cal-EIS) is a one- or two-year program for promising but green epidemiologists to gain hands-on experience working with an epidemiologist preceptor in either local or state health departments in California.
