Unleash epidemiology's power to improve the public's health

In 2018, the CSTE Foundation (CSTEF) was established to address critical funding shortages at the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) and support their mission to develop, expand and diversify the epidemiology workforce.

Applied Epidemiologists at the state, Tribal, local, and territorial level are the public’s disease detectives. We rely on them to safeguard our health as they rapidly detect, control, and respond to infectious disease outbreaks like H5N1, measles, tuberculosis, and more.  Applied epidemiologists also fight the leading causes of death, like opiods, cancer, and cardiovascular disease. 

Our goal is to save lives and improve the public’s health by strengthening the 3,392embers of CSTE and their public health agencies. We believe education plus funding for new, developmental, and under-resourced efforts will have the benefit of:

• Improving disease surveillance and epidemiologic practice
  through training and capacity development
• Promoting effective use of data to guide public health practices,
  thus saving lives and limiting the spread of debilitating disease and death

CSTEF also supports epidemiologists by developing competency standards, training new and experienced professionals, introducing new areas of professional competence such as informatics, and expanding into emerging areas that include hospital-associated infections, substance abuse, violence, injury, diseases impacted by climate change and more. Current CSTEF development initiatives include:

• The Applied Epidemiology Fellowship Program
• The Jeffrey P. Davis Student Scholarship Fund
• Applied Epidemiology Leadership Training

Your individual donation – and your help with organization and corporate support is essential for urgent responses to public health emergencies.