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FBI/CDC Joint Criminal – Epidemiologic Investigations Workshop  – Bristol, TN

FBI/CDC Joint Criminal – Epidemiologic Investigations Workshop  – Bristol, TN

Dates and Location:

  • July 8-9, 2025 | 8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
  • Bristol Regional Medical Center - Conference Center | Bristol, TN

Training Objectives:

  • Understand law enforcement and public health roles, responsibilities, and authorities during a suspicious biological incident.
  • Law enforcement investigations and threat assessment.
  • Public health epidemiological and medical investigations.
  • Identify assets and capabilities for each discipline; discuss criminal and epidemiological investigational procedures and methodologies for a response to a biological threat.
  • Demonstrate types of information gathered by law enforcement and public health and how sharing information can advance both investigations; identify challenges to sharing information and determine potential solutions that may be adapted to meet the needs of both disciplines.
  • Discuss best practices for conducting a joint threat assessment, joint law enforcement-public health patient interview, and joint investigation models and protocols.
  • Develop inter-professional relationships between law enforcement and public health; identify contacts prior to biological incident so familiarly is established.

Targeted Audience:

  • Epidemiologists
  • LRN personnel
  • State health officer
  • Secretary of Health
  • Emergency preparedness managers
  • Local and state laboratories
  • Community health specialists
  • Local and state veterinary services
  • Public health nurses and physicians
  • Hospital personnel
  • Local and state police
  • Task force officers
  • FBI
  • First responders/EMS
  • Fire/Hazmat
  • DoD/Civil support teams
  • USPIS
  • CBP

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