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New report: Shortfall of big city health detectives poses serious threat to public health response

Big Cities Health Coalition

In the two weeks they spent with us, the CDC epi aid helped us prioritize which calls to make first, and when it was best to call people, and helped us inform local clinicians about how to recognize the signs of measles. A lot of decisions about health policy and practice get made based on epidemiological data.