At a glance
Description of the report
In compliance with the 21st Century Cures Act this report includes 1 CDC-hosted scientific meeting held in FY 2025 where the net expenses associated with the scientific meeting exceeded $30,000. The descriptions include:
- The date of the scientific meeting
- The location of the scientific meeting
- A brief explanation of how the scientific meeting advanced the mission of the agency
- A description of exceptional circumstances for scientific meeting where expenses exceeded $150,000
- The total scientific meeting expenses incurred by the agency for the scientific meeting and
- The total number of individuals whose travel expenses or other scientific meeting expenses were paid by the agency
Fiscal Year 2025 Summary
OPDIV
Total Number of Conferences
1
Total Cost
$2,963,137
Total Number of Attendees
3,503
Total Number of Federal Attendees (travel paid by CDC)
1,260
Total Number of Non-Federal Attendees (travel paid by CDC)
Public Health Infrastructure Center (PHIC)
2025 70th Annual Epidemic Intelligence Service Conference (EIS)
Dates: April 22-25, 2025
Venue, City, State, or Country: Downtown Hyatt Regency Atlanta, GA
How the Meeting Advanced the Mission of the Agency: The Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) Conference ties directly to the mission of CDC as an agency and more specifically, to the Division of Workforce Development (DWD) and the Epidemiology and Laboratory Workforce Branch (ELWB). It is regarded as a priority event by the CDC Office of the Director. Over the years since its inception, its function has grown to:
- Provide opportunities for scientific exchange regarding the most current epidemiologic topics.
- Highlight the breadth of epidemiologic activities at CDC.
- Provide a setting for strengthening the EIS professional network among new, current and former EIS officers.
The apex event demonstrates the previous year's work for current officers and EIS program staff, and EIS officer attendance is a requirement of the two-year EIS training program. It also serves as a vital continuing education opportunity for the nation's public health professionals, health scientists, and epidemiologists. This annual event is an important forum for improving health security and fostering collaboration between public health and health care. During the Annual EIS Conference, the incoming class will have an opportunity to connect with over 100 current EIS officers and EIS alumni and research the over 100 EIS positions descriptions that can be a potential training assignment for the following two years. It is also vital that CDC CIOs as well as state and local health departments have this time to recruit incoming EIS officers to positions within their centers.
Description of Exceptional Circumstances: The EIS Conference has approximately 2000 in-person participants. The need for contract cost, travel cost (the event is open to the public, but the majority of attendees are CDC employees), amount of meeting space and parking needed for the success of the conference exceeds GCC's space as well as the budget of $150,000. In addition, we require 2 ballrooms for concurrent sessions that can hold over 500 attendees in each, which also require 2 stages, A/V crews, live streams, videographers and photographers. Several meeting rooms are also needed to accommodate the recruiting positions and events for the incoming class that is simultaneously taking place during the conference. This puts a large demand on a venue's meeting space, but we don't purchase food and beverages, nor do we meet the sleeping room to meeting space ratio sufficient to grant us competitive pricing. In addition, there is now a virtual platform expense.
The EIS conference packs in a high concentration of the impact of our workforce programs but isn't without tremendous investment in time and energy. PHIC understands the price tag is high, the benefits are even greater with thousands of attendees both on site and viewing from the virtual platform. CDC gets a special glimpse of the future and what its fellows will bring to the field of public health throughout their careers.
Total Estimated Cost: $2,963,137
Total Attendees: 3,503
Total Feds on Travel: 1,260
Total Non-Feds on Travel: 34