A body of evidence: field epidemiology in PHE

Posted by: Isabel Oliver, Posted on: 22 January 2014 - Categories: Field epidemiology, Health Protection, Protecting the country's health

Field epidemiology is one of the mainstays of examining outbreaks of infectious disease.  Public Health England’s field epidemiology service (FES) contributes to investigating anything from the more common food poisoning incidents to the more exotic such as the new MERS-Coronavirus recently identified …