(THE CONVERSATION) When the Trump administration announced in February 2025 that it was cutting 10% of staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, it seemed that a small but storied ...

(THE CONVERSATION) When the Trump administration announced in February 2025 that it was cutting 10% of staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, it seemed that a small but storied ...

The Trump administration’s campaign to slash the federal civil service will hit one of the crown jewels of global public health on Friday. Many of the members of the Epidemic Intelligence ...

Idea to put battery-powered lights in World Trade Center stairwells saved thousands on 9/11. It wouldn't have happened without the Epidemic Intelligence Service, writes an alumnus.

Against this backdrop, the CDC held an annual conference at the end of April celebrating the work of their Epidemic Intelligence Service, a highly selective training program for "disease detectives" ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Mark Dworkin, University of Illinois Chicago and Casey Luc, University of Illinois ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. (THE CONVERSATION) When the Trump administration announced in February 2025 that it was ...

The Epidemic Intelligence Service was founded in 1951, just five years after the launch of the CDC, in response to Cold War-era concerns about biological warfare.