E - Email Reminder

Attachment E. E-mail Reminder to Participate in Interview Following Initial E-mail

From: [Name]

To: ELC Epidemiology and Principal Investigators

Subject: Reminder: Assessment of the ELC Flexible Epidemiology Program – Invitation to participate

Dear [Name]:

We sent you an e-mail two weeks ago regarding an assessment project to determine the utility of the Flexible Epidemiology Program, and its’ contributions in enhancing STLT health department’s epidemiology capacity.

The ELC Assessment Team is inviting you to participate in this project. You and your state’s ELC flexible epidemiologist have been selected to participate in two separate, in-depth interviews with a member of the ELC Assessment Team. You have been selected because you share certain characteristics that will be relevant and important for this project. The interview will assess you and your state’s ELC flexible epidemiologist’s:

1. Value and utilization of this program,

2. Recommendations for program improvements.

The interviews will take place over the phone and last about 39 minutes. They will be recorded so that your responses are accurately captured, and then transcribed. Once the recordings are transcribed, they will be destroyed. There will be no information linking respondents’ names to the information collected. Information collected from the interviews will be aggregated into a final summary report. The final summary report is the only report that will be made available to persons outside of the ELC Assessment Team. The final summary report will be made accessible for you to share with your leadership and stakeholders, as well as other internal and external stakeholders of the ELC program. It may be used in other reports or presentations.

We look forward to your participation in this important project. If you would like to participate, please contact Christina Chung at 404-639-3988 or via e-mail at [email protected] and let us know the best time to call you to arrange a time to speak.

Sincerely,

[Name]