@aoc.bsky.social would you share which campaign training programs you think are effective? seems like the support you had as a cohort w/ BNC was important. lots of potential candidates over on www.reddit.com/r/fednews/new & would like to share trainings that have the necessary depth to to support.

I would advise Americans to look at foreign health agencies as the CDC will soon deteriorate into a snake oil peddling shop. Canada is probably the most applicable.

“As part of the fellowship, they serve for two years around the CDC or deployed to health departments across the country, often on the front lines of public health responses.”

We are less safe now in our own communities. I will never understand this.

My best friend was an EIS officer who went to Liberia twice during the Ebola outbreaks a decade ago, who also made me aware of how many domestic situations(so much food contamination!) never come to light because we generally contain cases so well.

There’s gonna be a lot of people feeling unwell.

They are a tiny fraction of CDC’s workforce but provide incalculable value to both CDC and the nation. Cruelly firing them with hours’ notice in the name of efficiency is an outrage. To our EIS officers, we will never forget your service to this nation.

During measles outbreaks they’ve deployed to perform contact tracing and assist with vaccinating at risk children. They deploy or provide technical assistance for foodborne, waterborne, viral, and fungal outbreaks. They investigated vaping-related lung injury. They investigate opioid overdoses.

EIS fellows are CDC's “disease detectives” first responders. They stationed at CDC and at health departments throughout the US. During the pandemic they entered houses of infected persons to gather blood samples that would assist in development of COVID-19 antibody tests and antibody treatments.