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Md. The event is sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the National Vaccine Program Office. The program will be presented by medical epidemiologist William Atkinson, MD, MPH, and Melinda Wharton, MD, chief of the Child Vaccine-Preventable Disease Branch, both from CDC's National Immunization Program. The program will provide guidelines for vaccine-preventable disease surveillance, case investigation, and outbreak control. The course is designed for nurses, physicians, epidemiologists, sanitarians, infection control practitioners, laboratorians, disease reporters, and others. Continuing education credit will be offered.