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Furthermore, modest salaries make it diffi cult for health departments to recruit young epidemiologists and harder to retain them once they are hired. The shortage was fi rst documented in 2001 when the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists completed its original survey of state epidemiologists. The following year, an infl ux of money from the federal government aimed at improving bioterrorism and emergency response led to a spike in the number of epidemiologists, particularly those working in bioterrorism and infectious disease. But as the funding has leveled off, so have the numbers of epidemiologists working at the state level. “There was concern around building a lot of personnel infrastructure around this funding if it wasn’t going to be sustained. It’s already apparent that it’s not going to be. I think unfortunately we could see additional losses if we continue to

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