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Interested in Infectious Disease Epidemiology? The Wisconsin Division of Public Health (DPH) is excited to invite applications for a student team to assist in surveillance and outbreak investigations in the Bureau of Communicable Diseases and Emergency Response (BCDER). Team members will gain unique and valuable experience working in a state health department. The Surveillance and Outbreak Support (SOS) Team is comprised of UW graduate students with interest in public health and infectious diseases. Team activities are primarily in support of surveillance and investigation of enteric diseases and food and waterborne outbreak investigations; however, the team will be available to assist with other disease investigations within the BCDER as necessary. Duties include but are not limited to: conducting telephone follow-up with laboratories and health care providers supporting local and state efforts to complete follow-up interviews with individuals diagnosed with important enteric pathogens, including E. coli O157:H7 and Salmonella assisting BCDER staff with data entry and data cleaning of enteric disease reports providing outbreak response surge capacity to enable more complete and timely telephone interviews of case patients and controls especially during evening hours BCDER is looking for three students, who are available to work this summer and continue to work during the 2012-2013 academic year. During the summer, SOS Team members will work approximately 20-25 hours per week beginning in late May or early June. The expectation is that SOS Team members will continue to work approximately 10-15 hours per week during the academic year (through May 2013). Hours of work will be primarily afternoon and evening shifts (~3-7:30pm) although some daytime shifts are available. On occasion SOS Team members are needed for weekend shifts during large outbreak investigations. These positions tend to have flexible scheduling to allow students to accommodate course schedules and supplement their studies with real life epidemiology training. There are opportunities to start immediately, so apply now if you are interested. Interested students should email a cover letter and resume to Justin Kohl by April 13, 2012. Justin Kohl, MPH Epidemiologist/SOS Program Coordinator Bureau of Communicable Diseases and Emergency Response Wisconsin Division of Public Health tel. 608-266-2701 fax. 608-261-4976 [email protected]