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The California Emerging Infections Program (CEIP), funded under a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is one of eleven federally funded Emerging Infections Program (EIP) sites. As part of the EIP network, the CEIP has been an invaluable national resource for surveillance, prevention, and control of emerging infectious diseases since 1994. The local, state, and federal partners who make up CEIP include: the departments of public health of the counties of Alameda, Contra Costa, and San Francisco and of the City of Berkeley; the University of California Berkeley School of Public Health; the U.C. San Francisco School of Medicine; the northern California Kaiser Permanente Health Care organization; the California Department of Public Health Division of Communicable Disease Control; CDC; the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA); and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The EIP network aims to be a national resource for surveillance, prevention, and control of emerging infectious diseases. CEIP was initiated in 1994 with Co-Directors Duc Vugia, MD, MPH and Arthur Reingold, MD, Health Program Manager Gretchen Rothrock, MPH, and 7 employees, and now employs over 40.

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