The Center for Field Epidemic Intelligence, Research, and Professional Development (CFEIR) was established in April 2021, during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. The mission of CFEIR is to establish strong relationships between counterparts by developing a public health workforce which can detect public health crises, respond promptly and accurately to an outbreak using risk assessment skills, consider short and long-term preventive measures, can make recommendations, and provide feedback in either local or global settings.

Under this mission, the three divisions in CFEIR will conduct the following operations:

1. Apply field epidemiology to support public health authorities in responding to health crises, focusing primarily on infectious diseases.
2. Collect, analyze, conduct risk assessments, and plan response measures if needed on domestic and international health crisis events, using applied field epidemiology.
3. Develop a workforce which can take on leadership roles during a health emergency response through the Field Epidemiology Training Program (FETP). FETP is an on-the-job style training program and fellows work in the following activities:
   • Participation of outbreak investigation
   • Evaluation, modif ication, and utilization of infectious disease surveillance
   • Conduct risk assessment and participate in response against public health crisis
   • Conduct epidemiological studies
   • Contribute to prevention of outbreak recurrence activities
   • Establish and maintain a network of FETP graduates, both domestically and internationally
4. Provide information to support prevention planning measures

Division I:

Division for Epidemic Intelligence Training and Practice (EITP) Standardization, quality improvement, and implementation of applied f ield epidemiology

Division II:

Division for Epidemic Intelligence Analysis and Feedback (EIAF) Feedback and communication of public health information to the public and stakeholders

Division III:

Division for Global Health Workforce Development (GHWD) Collaboration with overseas FETP and preparation for international dispatch