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Workforce Development and Building STLT Capacity

• Strengthened STLT workforce capacity through the CSTE Applied Epidemiology Fellowship program. All fellows
contributed to the COVID-19 response at their host sites, and 11 new COVID-19-focused fellows were placed across the
country.
• Supported four Influenza Hospitalization Surveillance Project sites to conduct COVID-19 surveillance activities and
participate in COVID-NET during the 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 seasons.

• Supported five academic and private industry groups to develop COVID-19 forecasts and intervention-focused
mathematical models to enhance applied public health decision making for intervention and mitigation strategies.
• Supported five public health agencies to conduct surveillance and investigation activities for SARS-CoV-2 in animals.
• Helped 25 public health agencies implement an 11-question COVID-19 supplement on maternal behaviors and experiences
before, during, and shortly after pregnancy as part of routine maternal child health surveillance.
• Supported collaborations between public health agencies and medical examiner’s offices in six jurisdictions to develop
protocols for identification and investigation of unexplained respiratory deaths occurring outside the healthcare setting.

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