Center For Disease Control

GOALS

The CDC states that it has two primary health protection goals:
#''Health promotion and prevention of disease, injury, and disability: All people, especially those at higher risk due to health disparities, will achieve their optimal lifespan with the best possible quality of health in every stage of life.''
#''Preparedness: People in all communities will be protected from infectious, occupational, environmental, and terrorist threats.''

STRUCTURE

The CDC includes the following Centers, Institute, and Offices:

National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion {Link without Title}

National Center for Environmental Health {Link without Title}

National Center For Health Statistics {Link without Title}

National Center For HIV, STD, And TB Prevention {Link without Title}

National Center for Infectious Diseases {Link without Title}

National Center for Injury Prevention and Control {Link without Title}

National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities {Link without Title}

National Center for Public Health Informatics {Link without Title}

National Center for Health Marketing {Link without Title}

National Institute For Occupational Safety And Health {Link without Title}

Office of Genetics and Disease Prevention {Link without Title}

Epidemiology Program Office {Link without Title}

Office of Global Health {Link without Title}

Public Health Practice Program Office {Link without Title}

Office of the Director

---Associate Director for Minority Health {Link without Title}

---Associate Director of Science {Link without Title}

---Freedom of Information Act Office {Link without Title}

---Information Resources Management Office {Link without Title}

---Management Analysis and Services Office {Link without Title}

---Office of Communication, Division of Media Relations {Link without Title}

---Office of Health and Safety (OhASIS) {Link without Title}

---Office of Women's Health {Link without Title}

---Technology Transfer Office {Link without Title}

National Immunization Program {Link without Title}

Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, the CDC is an agency of the Department Of Health And Human Services . Previously known as the Communicable Disease Center until 1946 and as the '''Center for Disease Control''' until 1970 , the agency was founded in 1946 to help control malaria. The CDC has remained at the forefront of public health efforts to prevent and control infectious and chronic diseases, injuries, workplace hazards, disabilities, and environmental health threats.

WORKFORCE

The workforce at CDC/ATSDR totals more than 9,000 employees in 170 occupations with a public health focus, including physicians, statisticians, epidemiologists, laboratory experts, behavioral scientists, and health communicators.

Although its national headquarters is in Atlanta, more than 3,000 CDC employees work at other locations throughout the United States. Additional CDC staff are deployed to countries around the globe, assigned to almost all state health departments, and dispersed to numerous local health agencies on both long- and short-term assignments.

The CDC campus in Atlanta houses facilities for the research of extremely dangerous biological agents, in a setting well represented in the Dustin Hoffman film '' Outbreak '' although the actual location depicted in the film was supposed to be the Army's USAMRIID bio-research facility.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

The CDC also publishes the Peer-review ed journal ''Emerging Infectious Diseases'' {Link without Title} .

EXTERNAL LINKS

Official site

European Center for Disease Control and Prevention at Solna, Sweden

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