Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (or CDC) are a United States federal agency under the Department of Health and Human Services. CDC main office is in Druid Hills, a neighborhood in northeastern Atlanta, Georgia. ^[2][3][4] It works to protect public health and safety. It provides information to enhance health decisions. It promotes health as a partner with state health departments and other organizations. When an infectious disease or bad food can cause health problems, the CDC will tell the nation how to fight it. The CDC works on environmental health, occupational safety and health, health promotion, injury prevention and education activities designed to improve the health of the people of the United States.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Logo of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Agency overview
Formed	1 July 1946
Preceding agencies	Office of National Defense Malaria Control Activities (1942) Office of Malaria Control in War Areas (1942–46) Communicable Disease Center (1946–67) National Communicable Disease Center (1967–70) Center for Disease Control (1970–80) Centers for Disease Control (1980–92)
Jurisdiction	Federal Government of the United States
Headquarters	Atlanta
Employees	11,814[1]
Agency executives	Mandy Cohen, Director Nirav D. Shah, Principal Deputy Director
Parent agency	United States Department of Health and Human Services
Website	https://www.cdc.gov

Agencies under the CDC

The CDC has agencies that work under it:

• NIOSH, which checks things people wear for job safety.
• ATSDR, which lists chemicals that make people sick.

Foundation

The CDC Foundation^[5] is separate from CDC as a private, nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization. It is incorporated in the State of Georgia. Section 399F of the Public Health Service Act created the foundation to help the CDC work with the private sector.

References

1. "Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Salary Statistics". federalpay.org. Retrieved July 4, 2019. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had 10,899 employees in 2015 ...
2. Home Page. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Retrieved on November 19, 2008. Archived 2006-03-31 at the Wayback Machine
3. Groundbreaking held for new CDC virus research labs. Atlanta Journal-Constitution. December 3, 1985. A21. Retrieved on February 5, 2011. "[The new facility will sit behind and be connected to CDC's red-brick complex of buildings on Clifton Road in DeKalb County[...]"
4. "Druid Hills CDP, GA Archived 2011-11-25 at the Wayback Machine." United States Census Bureau. Retrieved on May 5, 2009.
5. CDCfoundation.org

Other websites

• The CDC Homepage
• CDC Online Newsroom
• CDC Health Topics A to Z
• CDC Public Health Image Library
• CDC Global Communications Center
• CDC Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratory– Atlanta, Georgia Archived 2008-07-03 at the Wayback Machine
• Centers For Disease Control And Prevention Meeting Notices and Rule Changes Archived 2011-11-19 at the Wayback Machine from The Federal Register RSS Feed Archived 2011-09-04 at the Wayback Machine
• Proposed and finalized federal regulations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Archived 2012-03-23 at the Wayback Machine

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