What Does the CDC Do for All of Us?

 

• CDC is the nation's leading science-based, data-driven, service organization that protects the public's health.
• CDC puts science into action to help children stay healthy so they can grow and learn; to help families, businesses, and communities fight disease and stay strong; and to protect the public's health.
• Learn more about CDC's mission, priorities, role, and core values.

CDC works 24/7 to protect America from health, safety and security threats, both foreign and in the U.S. Whether diseases start at home or abroad, are chronic or acute, curable or preventable, human error or deliberate attack, CDC fights disease and supports communities and citizens to do the same.

CDC increases the health security of our nation. As the nation's health protection agency, CDC saves lives and protects people from health threats. To accomplish our mission, CDC conducts critical science and provides health information that protects our nation against expensive and dangerous health threats and responds when these arise.

CDC in the 21st century

• On the cutting edge of health security – confronting global disease threats through advanced computing and lab analysis of huge amounts of data to quickly find solutions.
• Putting science into action – tracking disease and finding out what is making people sick and the most effective ways to prevent it.
• Helping medical care – bringing new knowledge to individual health care and community health to save more lives and reduce waste.
• Fighting diseases before they reach our borders – detecting and confronting new germs and diseases around the globe to increase our national security.
• Nurturing public health – building on our significant contribution to have strong, well-resourced public health leaders and capabilities at national, state and local levels to protect Americans from health threats.

CDC's Role

• Detecting and responding to new and emerging health threats
• Tackling the biggest health problems causing death and disability for Americans
• Putting science and advanced technology into action to prevent disease
• Promoting healthy and safe behaviors, communities and environment
• Developing leaders and training the public health workforce, including disease detectives
• Taking the health pulse of our nation
• Priorities

The 2022-2027 CDC Strategic Plan advances science and health equity and affirms the agency's commitment to one unified vision— equitably protecting health, safety, and security. The plan continues to leverage 5 core capabilities of the agency, reflecting our commitment to equity and diversity and lifting up where we have invested through the COVID-19 pandemic. Our work is underscored by the agency's Pledge to the American People and dedication to use timely data and science to drive and communicate customer-centered, high-impact public health action.

CDC Moving Forward‎

In April 2022, CDC launched an effort to refine and modernize its structures, systems, and processes around developing and deploying our science and programs. The goal was to learn how to pivot our long-standing practices and adapt to pandemics and other public health emergencies, then to apply those lessons across the organization. The effort included a review of key workflows, with a particular focus on ensuring CDC's science reaches the public in an understandable, accessible, and implementable manner as quickly as possible.

CDC in the 21st century

• On the cutting edge of health security – confronting global disease threats through advanced computing and lab analysis of huge amounts of data to quickly find solutions.
• Putting science into action – tracking disease and finding out what is making people sick and the most effective ways to prevent it.
• Helping medical care – bringing new knowledge to individual health care and community health to save more lives and reduce waste.
• Fighting diseases before they reach our borders – detecting and confronting new germs and diseases around the globe to increase our national security.
• Nurturing public health – building on our significant contribution to have strong, well-resourced public health leaders and capabilities at national, state and local levels to protect Americans from health threats.

Linking Research and Public Health Practice: A Review of CDC's Program of Centers for Research and Demonstration of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

Institute of Medicine (US) Committee to Review the CDC Centers for Research and Demonstration of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

Michael A. Stoto, Lawrence W. Green, Linda A. Bailey 

, editors.

Washington (DC): National Academies Press (US); 1997.

• PMID: 25121312
 
• Bookshelf ID: NBK233408
 
• DOI: 10.17226/5564

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Health promotion and disease prevention are central priorities in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) vision. To advance research in these areas, Congress authorized and CDC established a program of university-based Centers for Research and Demonstration of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention to explore improved ways of appraising health hazards and to serve as demonstration sites for new and innovative research in public health. Begun in 1986 with three centers, there are now fourteen. In response to a CDC request to evaluate the program, Linking Research and Public Health Practice examines the vision for the prevention research centers program, the projects conducted by the centers, and the management and oversight of the program. In conducting the evaluation, the IOM committee took a broad view of how prevention research can influence the health of communities, and considered both the proximal risk factors for disease prevention and the more distal conditions for health promotion and improved equity in the distribution of risk factors.