Carroll Yulia I, Rashid Fauzia A, Falk Henry, Howley Meredith M
Office of the Associate Director for Science, National Center for Environmental Health/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Chamblee Campus, 4770 Buford Highway, Building 102, MS:F-45, Atlanta, GA 30341, USA.
Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Public Health Rev. 2017;38:1. doi: 10.1186/s40985-017-0051-x. Epub 2017 Jan 25.
The Epidemic Intelligence Service officers (EISOs) at the National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH)/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) respond to public health outbreaks, assist public health surveillance, and recommend public health actions. We summarize the breadth of work done by EISOs assigned to NCEH/ATSDR during 2006-2015. We used the Web of Science, Scopus, and PubMed databases to identify articles authored by the EISOs, number and types of epidemiologic assistance field investigations (Epi-Aids), and interviewed NCEH/ATSDR programs with EISO assignees. The largest number of NCEH/ATSDR EISO publications ( = 61) and Epi-Aids ( = 110) related to toxic chemicals (23 and 37, respectively), followed by natural disasters and those caused by humans (19 and 25, respectively), extreme temperature-related illness (9), and chronic diseases (8). The investigations raised awareness, identified risk factors and public health needs, and introduced better prevention and protection measures for human health. Through field investigations and other technical assistance, NCEH/ATSDR provided leadership and staff scientists to assist in the field, as well as knowledge transfer to local, state, territorial, and international health departments.
国家环境卫生中心（NCEH）/有毒物质与疾病登记署（ATSDR）的疫情情报服务官员（EISOs）应对公共卫生突发事件，协助公共卫生监测，并建议采取公共卫生行动。我们总结了2006年至2015年期间分配到NCEH/ATSDR的EISOs所开展工作的广度。我们使用科学网、Scopus和PubMed数据库来识别EISOs撰写的文章、流行病学援助现场调查（Epi-Aids）的数量和类型，并采访了有EISO受派人的NCEH/ATSDR项目。NCEH/ATSDR的EISO发表的文章数量最多（n = 61），Epi-Aids数量最多（n = 110），涉及有毒化学品（分别为23篇和37项），其次是自然灾害和人为灾害（分别为19篇和25项）、与极端温度相关的疾病（9篇）和慢性病（8篇）。这些调查提高了认识，确定了风险因素和公共卫生需求，并引入了更好的人类健康预防和保护措施。通过现场调查和其他技术援助，NCEH/ATSDR提供了领导能力和科学家工作人员，以协助现场工作，并向地方、州、领地和国际卫生部门进行知识转移。
