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Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists  

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  • The Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) is a professional organization whose mission is to advance health and guide public health procedures through the appropriate use of epidemiologic data. The organization's activities include the identification of nationally notifiable diseases, development of standardized case definitions and operating procedures, epidemiologic capacity building, and advocacy for the use of epidemiologic information in policy development and decision making. [Source: Encyclopedia of Epidemiology; Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists]

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