ORISE Fellowship in Public Health Infrastructure and Partnership Implementation Science

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

CDC-

12/18/2026 3:00:00 PM Eastern Time Zone

• Applications will be reviewed on a rolling-basis.

A research opportunity is currently available with the The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is one of the major operation components of the Department of Health and Human Services. CDC protects America from health, safety and security threats, both foreign and in the U.S. Whether diseases start at home or abroad, are chronic or acute, curable or preventable, human error or deliberate attack, CDC fights disease and supports communities and citizens to do the same.

CDC increases the health security of our nation. As the nation’s health protection agency, CDC saves lives and protects people from health threats. To accomplish its mission, CDC conducts important science and provides health information that protects our nation against expensive and dangerous health threats, and responds when these arise.

The Division of Partnership Support (DPS) within the CDC’s Public Health Infrastructure Center (PHIC) is committed to strengthening public health systems, enhancing partnership effectiveness, and ensuring resilient infrastructure across state, tribal, local, and territorial (STLT) jurisdictions. The ORISE Fellowship in Public Health Infrastructure and Partnership Implementation Science offers an immersive, practice-based training experience designed to develop the next generation of public health systems thinkers and implementation scientists.

The purpose of this fellowship is to provide you with robust training in public health infrastructure assessment, partnership science, and program improvement. Through guided learning experiences, you will develop skills to manage and analyze program datasets, evaluate partnership activities, and produce actionable recommendations that enhance program efficiency and demonstrate impact. This fellowship is designed to strengthen your analytic and scientific skills while increasing your understanding of national efforts to modernize public health infrastructure, improve partnership performance, and translate evidence into strategic action.

• Build foundational knowledge and applied skills in public health infrastructure and partnership research, and implementation science methods.
• Gain experience collecting, organizing, analyzing, and interpreting quantitative data related to public health partnerships and systems performance.
• Develop competencies in analytic dataset creation and analysis, systematic and content reviews, and evidence synthesis.
• Strengthen scientific communication skills through writing reports, developing presentations, and contributing to publishable materials under mentor guidance.
• Apply rigorous scientific processes to analyze and translate research findings into recommendations that support continuous quality improvement.

Under the mentorship of DPS leadership, you will engage in applied learning that strengthens analytic, scientific, and communication competencies.

You will participate in a structured series of training activities such as:

• Learning partnership and implementation science frameworks and methods and how partnerships and infrastructure support public health program outcomes.
• Developing analytic datasets and learning approaches for dataset stewardship.
• Learning how evaluation activities identify progress, gaps, trends, and opportunities for program improvement.
• Applying novel analytic approaches that demonstrate the value and impact of partnership programs.
• Gaining…