Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, headquartered in Atlanta, whose mission is “to promote health and quality of life by preventing and controlling disease, injury, and disability.” Part of the Public Health Service, it was founded in 1946 as the Communicable Disease Center to fight malaria and other contagious diseases. As its scope widened to polio, smallpox, and disease surveillance, the name was changed to the Center for Disease Control and later pluralized. It now subsumes health statistics, infectious diseases, and environmental health; a National Immunization Program; and an Office on Smoking and Health. It consolidates disease-control data, health promotion, and public health programs, and it provides grants for studies and programs, health information to health care professionals and the public, and publications on epidemiology. Today it is regarded as perhaps the world's foremost epidemiological centre.

CDC

(1) See Control Data, century date change and Back Orifice.

(2) (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA, www.cdc.gov) The U.S. government agency responsible for preventing and controlling contagious diseases. See healthcare IT.

CDC - Control Data Corporation

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention supporters came together at a May briefing to talk about CDC financing, its impact on public health and how they will be supporting the agency.

CDC Coalition members discuss budget outlook for health agency by The Nation's Health

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In this column, EHSB and guest authors from across CDC will highlight a variety of concerns, opportunities, challenges, and successes that we all share in environmental public health.

Enhancing and revitalizing environmental public health by Blake, Rob / Journal of Environmental Health

Strategic planning helps agencies like CDC sustain a workforce with the necessary education, skills, and competencies--human capital--to fulfill their missions.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Human Capital Planning ... by General Accounting Office Reports & Testimony