• Provide support and consultation to local health departments and other health care professionals

• Collect and analyze data on communicable diseases and share with the health care community

• Develop programs and strategies to control communicable diseases

• Engage in special studies related to the control of communicable diseases

• Provide liaison with CDC on issues related to communicable diseases

Contact Information for Division Staff  

  Surveillance and Infectious Disease Epidemiology Section               

• Emergency Notification Network

• Enhanced surveillance for infectious and unusual diseases

• Michigan Disease Surveillance System

• Great Lakes Border Health Initiative

• Syndromic surveillance

• Exploration of novel surveillance systems

• Preparedness and coordination for bioterrorism events and pandemic influenza

• State BT and Flu Preparedness Plans

• National Pharmaceutical Stockpile preparations

• Continuing education on biological agents

• Partnerships with law enforcement, emergency management and local public health in the surveillance for and response to incidents of intentional civilian exposure to infectious and hazardous agents (bioterrorism)

• Surveillance and control of respiratory infections, such as  influenza  and legionellosis

• Control, surveillance and education of food-borne diseases such as E.coli 0157:H7, salmonellosis, hepatitis A and viral gastroenteritis

• Control, surveillance and education about communicable diseases of the central nervous system such as meningitis, and encephalitis such as meningococcal disease

• Enhancing the capacities of local communities

Zoonotics and Special Projects Section

• Control, surveillance and education on diseases transmitted by animals (zoonotic and vector-borne diseases,) such as West Nile Virus ,  Lyme disease  and rabies

HIV, STD, Adult VH and TB Epidemiology Section                    

• HIV Surveillance: measuring disease and deaths among the entire population

• Special HIV Surveillance Studies: detailed info on a sample of the HIV-infected population

• HIV Serosurveillance: measure prevalence and incidence of HIV infection from blood samples within specific populations

• Hepatitis C education and surveillance

• Tuberculosis control and surveillance

• STD surveillance

Other Important Division Links

• Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Michigan Prepares
• Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
• Communicable Disease Reporting in Michigan
• Communicable Disease Fact Sheets
• Scabies Prevention and Control Manual (PDF)