The Connecticut Emerging Infections Program , a collaboration between Yale School of Public Health and CT Department of Public Health, has been awarded a five-year, $14 million grant from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention to continue its ongoing research and surveillance of infectious diseases in Connecticut. The Yale EIP tracks a wide range of infectious diseases that impact state residents, including cases of food-borne disease caused by common bacteria and parasites, C. difficile and other infections in health care and community settings, influenza-related hospitalizations, pre-cancerous cervical lesions due to human papillomavirus infections and Lyme and other tick-borne diseases.