The Office of Infectious Disease Services addresses more than 70 infectious disease conditions of public health concern. Conditions include all reportable infectious diseases other than HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis C, and Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs), which are addressed by the Office of HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis C, and STDs.
 

Infectious Disease Epidemiology
Responsible for monitoring, controlling and preventing vaccine preventable diseases (e.g., measles, rubella), hepatitides, enteric diseases (e.g., E. coli O157:H7, salmonellosis), and other infectious diseases (e.g., coccidioidomycosis, botulism, invasive Group A streptococcal disease).  The Infectious Disease Epidemiology area is divided into the Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Investigations Program which is responsible for working with local health departments on outbreaks and case investigations, and the Infectious Disease Surveillance and Preparedness Program which is responsible for maintaining the communicable disease surveillance system and enhancing epidemiologic abilities to detect and respond to a public health emergency.

Syndromic Surveillance
Syndromic surveillance is the systematic collection and analysis of health-related information that is pre-diagnostic (which means before a patient is formally diagnosed with a disease) to look for patterns of illness "syndromes" in the community. A syndrome is a group of symptoms that can classified into a category of illness. This means that a person who has a fever, sore throat and a cough would have a "respiratory" syndrome. The goal of this program is to try to detect outbreaks of infectious diseases or clusters of the same type of illnesses before a traditional diagnosis is made. For example, monitoring hospital emergency room visits can inform public health epidemiologists about how many patients are coming in to be seen for "influenza-like illness" or "gastrointestinal illness." 

Tuberculosis Control
Responsible for surveillance and control of infection, disease and death associated with tuberculosis (TB). 

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Disease
Responsible for monitoring, controlling and preventing diseases transmitted from animals (zoonoses) or arthropod vectors through disease surveillance in human and animal populations (e.g., rabies in animals), vector surveillance (e.g., arboviruses in mosquitoes, including West Nile virus), epidemiologic investigations, education and consultation.