EIS Conference

CDC Acting Director, Anne Schuchat and CSELS Director, Michael Iademarco welcome attendees
Captive audience during opening session
Dr. Sandro Galea delivers thought-provoking talk in the Alexander D. Langmuir lecture
Pattie Simone shares conference highlights during her closing remarks
ABC Nightline News interviews Chief of EIS program, Josh Mott
EIS officers serve as expert panel for media availability session (CSELS, DSEPD Director, Pattie Simone moderates)
EIS officers answer questions after media availability session
Networking in the recruitment forum
EIS officer, Francis Annor, presents findings
Fellow, Diana Riner, presents scientific work at inaugural Laboratory Leadership Service session
Jennifer McQuiston (EIS 1998) receives 2017 Stephen B. Thacker EIS Champion Award
Conference attendees network between sessions
Session attendee poses insightful questions and comments after presentation
Nina Smith gives tips and resources to candidates interested in applying to EIS in the future
Conference attendee studies poster presentation
Standing room only during inaugural Laboratory Leadership Service session
EIS officer, Rachel Burke, discusses Zika work during poster symposium
MMWR exhibit and staff
Laboratory Leadership Service exhibit and staff
EIS exhibit and staff
Epidemiology Workforce Branch as conference coordinators and host program
CDC Learning Connection photo booth fun with Teresa Smith, CSELS, DSEPD Associate Director for Communications
CDC Learning Connection photo booth fun with Abbigail Tumpey, CSELS Associate Director for Communications
CDC Learning Connection photo booth fun with conference attendees
CDC Learning Connection photo booth fun with Gaby Benenson, Valerie Johnson, Barry Copeland
ABC Nightline News interviews EIS officers, Tolulope Adebanjo and Catherine Bozio
Book signings by EIS alumnus, Eugene Gangarosa (EIS 1964) at EIS Alumni Association booth
CDC Broadcast Services captures video footage during interview with EIS officer, Ashley Styczynski
CDC Broadcast Services captures video footage during interview with EIS officer, Annabelle de St Maurice
Host site staff recruiting incoming EIS officers
Conference attendees network between sessions
Networking in the recruitment forum

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The EIS Conference is a primary forum for EIS officers to present their epidemiologic activities. National and international participants represent EIS officers, their mentors, EIS alumni, and public health professionals.

Save the Date: 2018 67th Annual EIS Conference
April 16-19, 2018
Hilton Atlanta
255 Courtland Street NE
Atlanta, GA 30303

2017 66th Annual EIS Conference: Resources and Highlights

April 24-27, 2017

America’s Mart

Agenda-at-a-Glance[PDF – 1 page]
2017 Conference Program[PDF – 140 pages]
Digital Press Kit
Continuing Education (CE) information[PDF – 2 pages]
2017 Annual Update[PDF – 44 pages]
Award Recipients:
- Alexander D. Langmuir Prize — Brigette L. Gleason (EIS 2014)
- Distinguished Friend of EIS Award — Marcelle “Marci” Layton, MD (EIS 1992) and Mary Anne Duncan, DVM, MPH (EIS 2004)
- Donald C. Mackel Memorial Award — Jesse Bonwitt (EIS 2016)
- Iain Hardy Memorial Award — Paul A. Gastañaduy (EIS 2011)
- J. Virgil Peavy Memorial Statistical Award — Julie Lynn Self (EIS 2015)
- James H. Steele Veterinary Public Health Award — Ilana Schafer (EIS 2012)
- Mitch Singal Award for Excellence in Occupational and Environmental Health — Jessica L. Rinsky (EIS 2015)
- Outstanding Poster Presentation — Janna Kerins (EIS 2016)
- Paul C. Schnitker Award — Lawrence Purpura (EIS 2015)
- Stephen B. Thacker EIS Champion Award — Jennifer McQuiston (EIS 1998)
2017 International Night Awards
- Director’s Award for Excellence in Epidemiology and Public Health Response – Uganda Public Health Fellowship Program, Field Epidemiology Track
- Jeffrey P. Koplan Award for Excellence in Scientific Poster Presentation – Hamufare Maguri, Zimbabwe, Hospital-Affected Neonatal Sepsis Outbreak in an Intensive Care Unit, Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals, Zimbabwe, 2016
- William H. Foege Award for Best Scientific Oral Presentation – Rajesh Sahu, India, Outbreak Investigation of Acute Diarrheal Disease during a Religious Festival Associated with Drinking Contaminated Pipeline Water, Radhakund, Uttar Pradeshy, India, November 2016

2016

 2016 Conference Program[PDF - 136 pages]

2015

 2015 Conference Program[PDF - 4 MB]

2014

 2014 Conference Program[PDF - 5 MB]   2014 Late Breaking Reports[PDF - 1 MB]

2013

 2013 Conference Program[PDF - 5 MB]  2013 Late Breaking Reports[PDF - 506 KB]

2012

 2012 Conference Program[PDF - 8 MB]  2012 Late Breaking Reports[PDF - 844 KB]

2011

 2011 Conference Program[PDF - 8.4 MB]  2011 Late Breaking Reports[PDF - 265 KB]

2010

 Conference Program[PDF - 1 MB]

2009

 Conference Program[PDF  - 7 MB]  2009 Late Breaking Reports[PDF - 176 KB]

2008

 2008 Conference Program[PDF - 1 MB]  2008 Late Breaking Reports[PDF - 188 KB]

2007

 2007 Conference Program[PDF - 1 MB]  2007 Late Breaking Reports[PDF - 83 KB]

2006

 2006 Conference Program[PDF - 984 KB]  2006 Late Breaking Reports[PDF - 161 KB]

The Langmuir Lecture is the preeminent public health lecture in the United States. The first lecture was given in 1972, and it has been a highlight of the annual EIS Conference each year since then. The lecture is named for Alexander D. Langmuir, MD, MPH (1910–1993), a public health visionary and leader who established the Epidemiology Program at what was then called the Communicable Disease Center in 1949; he remained as CDC’s chief epidemiologist until his retirement in 1970.

Notably, Dr. Langmuir founded the EIS, established national disease surveillance for the United States, and brought the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report to CDC. Langmuir Lecture speakers have included Abraham Lilienfeld, Sir Richard Doll, Geoffrey Rose, Jonas Salk, and many other prominent public health thinkers and researchers. See more about Dr. Langmuir and Epidemiology at CDC in MMWR .

Doctor Sandro Galea The 2017 Langmuir Lecturer for the 66th Annual EIS Conference is Dr. Sandro Galea, the Robert A. Knox Professor and Dean at the Boston University School of Public Health. Dr. Galea is both a physician and epidemiologist. He was named one of TIME magazine’s epidemiology innovators and has been listed by Thomson Reuters as one of the “World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds” for the Social Sciences. He has published over 600 scientific journal articles, 50 chapters, and 10 books and his research has been featured extensively in current periodicals and newspapers. Prior to his appointment at Boston University, Dr. Galea served in numerous other academic and leadership capacities. Galea’s lecture addressed “Moving from Epidemiology to Quantitative Population Health Science.”

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2017 Alexander D. Langmuir Lecture for 66th annual Epidemic Intelligence Service Conference

The 2016 Langmuir Lecturer for the 65th Annual EIS Conference was Dr. Margaret Hamburg, an internationally recognized leader in public health and medicine. Most recently, as Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, she was known for advancing regulatory science, modernizing regulatory pathways, and globalization of the agency. Before this, Dr. Hamburg was founding vice president and senior scientist at the Nuclear Threat Initiative, a foundation dedicated to reducing nuclear, chemical and biological threats. Other positions have included Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (HHS), Health Commissioner for New York City, and Assistant Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease.

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2016 EIS Conference Langmuir Lecture

Jeff Dean, PhD , a Google Senior Fellow, presented the 2015 Langmuir Lecture. Dr. Dean helped develop Epi Info as a high school and college student. He spoke on “Large-Scale Machine Learning and Its Application to Public Health.” See Epi Info™ Museum for key events in the history of Epi Info™ statistical software.