CDC Innovative Drug Overdose Surveillance Fellowship
*Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
Two research opportunities are available with the Division of Overdose Prevention (DOP), within the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) located in Atlanta, Georgia.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is one of the major operation components of the Department of Health and Human Services. CDC works to protect America from health, safety and security threats, both foreign and in the U.S. Whether diseases start at home or abroad, are chronic or acute, curable or preventable, human error or deliberate attack, CDC fights disease and supports communities and citizens to do the same.
CDC's DOP leads injury prevention efforts by using science and data to understand drug overdoses and their related harms, and to develop evidence-based prevention solutions that work. Our mission is to save lives, prevent suffering, and help reduce healthcare costs. The Division's priority is to monitor, prevent, and reduce harms associated with drug use, misuse, and overdose.
Joining DOP, the selected participant will be trained in the Epidemiology and Surveillance Branch (ESB), which currently supports 66 state and local health departments that received Overdose Data to Action (OD2A) funding to collect timely, high quality, and comprehensive data on overdose morbidity and mortality and use these data to inform prevention and response efforts. As part of OD2A, the 66 recipients developed over 150 innovative surveillance projects to enhance tracking and prevention of drug overdose deaths. From 47 states and the District of Columbia, ESB also collects syndromic data on emergency department visits involving any suspected drug, opioid, stimulant or heroin overdoses as part of Drug Overdose and Surveillance Epidemiology (DOSE) and funds abstraction of death certificate data and medical examiner/coroner reports on all drug overdose deaths as part of the State Unintentional Drug Overdose Reporting System (SUDORS).
This Innovative Drug Overdose Surveillance Fellowship will be an excellent opportunity for the selected participant(s) interested in acquiring training and experience in the domain of science in the service of program surveillance and implementation. Under the guidance of the mentor, the participant(s) training activities will be in synthesizing the results of the OD2A innovative surveillance projects, technical assistance to OD2A-funded jurisdictions on innovative surveillance, and the management and tracking of innovative surveillance projects. This will be a rich opportunity to both learn about promising new overdose surveillance approaches and managing a diverse portfolio of surveillance projects. Based on the specific skill set and interests of the participant(s), the selected participant(s) will have the opportunity to train in other emerging surveillance areas as identified by the ESB mentor.
Under the guidance of a mentor, the participant(s) will be involved in the following activities:
- Train to engage in project management of critical drug overdose and surveillance activities
- Train in the development of scientific products that reflect programmatic insight and experience
- Train in the development of programmatic resources and reports, internal scientific support products
- Learn how to provide provision of technical assistance, management guidance of drug overdose and surveillance activities
- Learn to engage directly and collaborate with external and internal stakeholders
If you have questions, send an email to ORISE.CDC.NCIPC@orau.org. Please include the reference code for this opportunity in your email.