Deadline: January 8, 2027
Applications are open for the CDC Steven M. Teutsch Prevention Effectiveness (PE) Fellowship 2027. CDC’s Steven M. Teutsch Prevention Effectiveness (PE) Fellowship is a two-year, post-doctoral, applied training fellowship. It addresses public health demand for quantitative policy analysis, health economics-based inquiry, integrative health services research, and rigorous decision modeling.
The Traditional Track is offered for economists and health services researchers. The Analytics and Modeling Track is intended for disease modelers, ecologists, operations researchers, industrial engineers, and applied mathematicians.
Since 1995, CDC has recruited and trained more than 300 effective decision scientists through the fellowship. With each new class, the PE Fellowship builds a cadre of scientists whose research provides vital information to decision makers. CDC, congress, and nongovernmental agencies use information on resource allocation to maximize the impact of public health programs.
Benefits
- Fellows are paid at the General Schedule (GS) 12, step 3 level. They receive the same benefits as other federal employees, including medical insurance and leave.
- Fellows can be eligible for a salary increase after the first year of their fellowship, based on performance and written recommendation by appropriate management officials.
Eligibility
- Applicants must hold a PhD (or equivalent) with all requirements completed before the start of the fellowship.
- All applicants with degrees obtained at non-US institutions may be asked to provide documentation of an academic credentialing evaluation to ensure degree requirements are equivalent on request. This demonstrates how the foreign degree equates to academic degrees issued in the United States. Additionally, degrees must be translated into English.
- Applicants must be in one of the following groups to be considered for the program.
- US citizens
- US Permanent Residents
- Non-United States citizens or US Permanent Residents eligible for one of the following visas/work authorizations:
- OPT STEM extension covering the entire two years of the fellowship (for current F1 visa-holders)
- TN visa authorized under the current United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) for eligible citizens of Canada and Mexico
- J1 cultural exchange visa (or J2 visa as spouse of J1-holder)
- H1B visa
- Other applicable visa that authorizes work in the US
- Non-US citizen candidates who advance in the selection process will be contacted to discuss their visa and work authorization.
Eligible degrees include the following:
- Traditional Track
- Economics
- Agricultural economics
- Health services research
- Public health
- Other related quantitative field
- Analytics and Modeling Track
- Epidemiology
- Infectious disease modeling
- Disease ecology
- Applied mathematics
- Operations research or industrial engineering
- Biological science
- Data science
- Evolutionary or analytic biology
- Other related quantitative field
Application
The Class of 2027 fellowship application is open September 8, 2026, through January 8, 2027.
For more information, visit CDC Steven M. Teutsch PE Fellowship.
