The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Public Health Informatics Fellowship Program (PHIFP) provides on-the-job training for professionals to apply expertise in computer science, data analytics, and data science to address current and future public health needs.
PHIFP fellows are CDC data detectives. Each cohort is comprised of doctoral or master’s-level professionals with degrees in areas such as public health, medicine, healthcare/health services research; computer science, data science, medical/public health informatics; statistics; epidemiology; engineering; and operations research.
PHIFP is a 2-year, competency-based training program in public health informatics. Fellows are placed in assignments at centers, institutes, and offices (CIO’s) across CDC as well as at other federal, state, and local public health departments where they engage in experiential training to enhance the agency’s informatics workforce.
The following list includes routine tasks for PHIFP fellows:
- Work with teams involved in research and development of public health information systems
- Conduct informatics evaluations on complex public health information systems
- Contribute to CDC’s emergency response activities
- Provide technical assistance to state and local health departments and international public health agencies through short-term assignments, or Info-Aids
For more information, visit the PHIFP website. For questions about PHIFP, send an email to PHIFP@cdc.gov.