The Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) and the Big Cities Health Coalition recently released the 2024 Epidemiology Capacity Assessment (ECA). The reports outline the unmet applied epidemiology workforce and capacity needs across the US within state, territorial, and large urban health departments.   

The 2024 ECA reveals that applied epidemiology workforce and capacity needs in health departments remain unmet and are in danger of declining further without sustained funding.  

The ECA is the most complete and comprehensive national data on the US applied epidemiology workforce. For over 20 years, CSTE has reported on staffing, vacancies, funding, training needs, and other domains for applied epidemiologists, the key sector of the US public health workforce.   

The 2024 ECA reflects data from all US states, the District of Columbia, and for the first time, territories.  Additional data are also available on the epidemiology capacity of 35 large urban health departments.  

Read the reports and learn more about calls to action for health departments and other partners.