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New Jersey Department of Health and
Senior Services Communicable Disease
Service
FORMER NAME
Communicable Disease Service
ADDRESS
3635 Quakerbridge Rd., P.O. Box 369
Trenton, NJ 08625
PHONE
609-588-7539
609-392-2020 - Nights, weekends and holidays for infectious
disease emergencies
FAX
609-588-7433
INTERNET ADDRESS
http://www.state.nj.us/health/cd/
ADMINISTRATOR
Eddy Bresnitz, MD, MS, State Epidemiologist/Deputy Commissioner
CONTACT NAME
Janet DeGraaf, M.P.A., Director, Communicable Disease Service
DESCRIPTION
A government agency, administered by the New Jersey
Department of Health and Senior Services, Division of
Epidemiology, Environmental and Occupational Health, which
provides control and prevention services related to infectious
diseases and investigates outbreaks of infectious disease.
PROGRAMS
Infectious and Zoonotic Disease Program: This unit performs
the following services: 1) Consults/investigates infectious
diseases, including rabies and other diseases transmissible
from animals to man, insect/rodent vector control, and
confirmed or suspected infectious disease outbreaks in
communities or institutions; 2) Maintains the statewide,
reportable Communicable Disease Reporting and Surveillance
System (CDRSS), the Antibiotic Resistant Organism
Surveillance System, the Pediatric Surveillance System, and the
Active Lyme Disease Surveillance System; 3) Regulates dog
licensing, animal control, and licensed animal facilities; 4)
Administers a low-cost spay and neuter program for pets
adopted from licensed New Jersey animal adoption facilities or
those owned by residents on public assistance, and 5)
operates the Office of Animal Welfare (OAW) - 609-588-7500 or 609-588-3121
Sexually Transmitted Disease Program: This unit provides
technical support and consultation to local health departments
and non-governmental health care providers and organizations;
STD education and training; gonorrhea and chlamydia
screening services; intervention, prevention, outreach and
surveillance activities; and STD research and management
health service grants. Patricia Mason, Program Manager;
609-588-7526; 800-764-7661 (NJ AIDS/STD Hotline), e-mail -
patricia.mason@doh.state.nj.us
Tuberculosis Program: This unit supports TB ambulatory care
activities (clinical evaluation, treatment, prevention and
epidemiology) at the county, municipal and institutional level
through the provision of health service grant funds, staff,
medication, consultation and education; conducts research for
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; supports the
TB hotline; and maintains a TB Case and Suspect Registry.
Thomas Privett, Program Manager; 609-588-7522; e-mail -
thomas.privett@doh.state.nj.us
Vaccine Preventable Disease Program: The mission of this unit
is to reduce and eliminate the incidence of childhood vaccine-
preventable diseases through the following activities: 1)
Provision of vaccine to public sector providers; 2)
implementation of the New Jersey Immunization Action Plan; 3)
Outbreak control coordination; 4) Provision of technical
assistance to local health departments and other public sector
providers; 5) Maintainance of a statewide immunization
information system; 6) Coordination of the Public Sector
Perinatal Hepatitis-B Prevention Project; 7) Provision of
immunization training and education; 8) Coordination of W.I.C.
and AFDC sites with Immunization Program; 9) Printing and
distribution of immunization information; 10) Development and
implementation of the Vaccines For Children Program (VFC); 11)
School/Child Care Annual Survey; 12) Monitoring of Chapter
14 School/Child Care Immunization Regulation; 13) Monitoring
of college immunization regulation; 14) Monitoring of hospital
employee immunization regulation; 15) Supporting National
Infant Immunization Week activities; 16) Surveying statewide
retrospective immunization level; 17) Management of
approximately $2 million in health service grants; 18) Making
policy recommendations on vaccines and scheduling; 19)
Making recommendations on travel immunizations; 20)
Maintaining a toll- free telephone number for well
baby/immunization services - 800-328-3838. Angela Sorrells,
Program Manager; 609-588-7512; fax - 609-588-7431.
e-mail: angela.sorrells@doh.state.nj.us
SUBJECTS
Animal Services
Health Care and Services
LAST UPDATED
4/08