Mission
Vision
Our vision is to have fully staffed, equipped and trained public health workforce that effectively and efficiently detects, investigates, and responds to microbial threats. Our mission is to educate and train frontline public health staff to improve their ability to detect, investigate, and respond to microbial threats through education and training, evaluation, and research.
Our guiding principles express our values and guide our decisions:
- To promote collaborative learning;
- To make our trainings accessible and affordable;
- To assess, promote and use evidence-based practices;
- To prioritize work based on explicit public health criteria;
- To promote and use innovative, state-of-the-art methods and approaches;
- To collaborate with and involve stake holders, partners, and other agencies;
- To be a community resource by having open communication of methods, processes, and results.
Competencies
CIDP is uniquely focused on infectious disease emergency preparedness and response education and training. Among the public health workforce, our primary target audiences are based on the composition of a typical field investigation, response, and surveillance team that would respond to an infectious disease emergency (see Figure).
For this type of field team to be effective, members must have achieved three levels of competencies: (1) core competencies in bioterrorism and emergency preparedness, (2) interdisciplinary competencies in infectious disease emergency readiness (such as infection control and worker safety), and (3) discipline-specific competencies in their areas of expertise (such as epidemiology or microbiology).
For our target audiences, we have concentrated our efforts on the interdisciplinary and discipline-specific competencies of primary focus areas. This has translated into offering basic, intermediate, and advanced education and training opportunities in these focus areas using existing competencies to guide and strengthen our curriculum development.