Grant opportunity

CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service Fellowship 2026

CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service is a flagship applied epidemiology fellowship for public health scientists and physicians working on outbreak investigation and field epidemiology.

FellowshipEpidemiologyPublic healthOutbreak investigationUnited States
Funder
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Application deadline
Application deadline: Jun 5, 2026
Award
Applied epidemiology fellowship training and field placement support
Applicant
Public health scientists and physicians
Discipline
Biomedical Sciences
Region
United States / Global public health relevance
Posted
May 24, 2026

Call summary

Overview

The Epidemic Intelligence Service trains fellows in applied epidemiology through field placements, outbreak investigations, surveillance, and public health response.

Who can apply

  • Public health scientists, physicians, and other qualified applicants should review the official CDC EIS eligibility rules.
  • Applicants should confirm degree, professional, citizenship or work-authorisation, application-document, and placement requirements on the CDC page.

What it supports

  • Applied epidemiology, outbreak investigation, surveillance, emergency response, disease control, and field-based public health learning.
  • Fellows work on practical public health problems through CDC and partner placements.

Funding and duration

The fellowship provides CDC training and placement support according to programme rules.

Application deadline

Application deadline: Jun 5, 2026

How to apply

Use the official CDC EIS website and submit by 5 June 2026.

Call details

The Epidemic Intelligence Service trains fellows in applied epidemiology through field placements, outbreak investigations, surveillance, and public health response.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lists this opportunity for Public health scientists and physicians, Biomedical Sciences, United States / Global public health relevance. Applicants should use the official call page to confirm final requirements before submitting.

Public health scientists, physicians, and other qualified applicants should review the official CDC EIS eligibility rules.

Applicants should confirm degree, professional, citizenship or work-authorisation, application-document, and placement requirements on the CDC page.

Applied epidemiology, outbreak investigation, surveillance, emergency response, disease control, and field-based public health learning.

Fellows work on practical public health problems through CDC and partner placements.

The fellowship provides CDC training and placement support according to programme rules.

Application deadline: Application deadline: Jun 5, 2026.

Confirm the exact deadline time, time zone, and submission route on the official call page.

Plan internal approvals, partner confirmations, budgets, letters, and portal submission before the final deadline.

Use the official CDC EIS website and submit by 5 June 2026.

Before submitting, check required documents, eligible costs, attachments, page limits, institutional approvals, and whether the opportunity uses an expression of interest, full proposal, registration, or nomination stage.