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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Emergency Operations Center (EOC) assists public health partners in responding to disease outbreaks. The EOC played an important role during the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic, which affected thousands of people in the United States in the first months after the disease emerged in China.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
United States agency
Also known as: CDC, Communicable Disease Center
Quick Facts
- Date:
- 1946 - present
- Headquarters:
- Atlanta
- Areas Of Involvement:
- public health
- preventive medicine
- Related People:
- David Satcher
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, headquartered in Atlanta, whose mission is centred on preventing and controlling disease and promoting environmental health and health education in the United States. Part of the Public Health Service, it was founded in 1946 as the Communicable Disease Center to fight malaria and other infectious diseases. As its scope widened to polio, smallpox, and disease surveillance, the name was changed to the Center for Disease Control and later pluralized. Today the CDC subsumes health statistics, infectious diseases, and environmental health; a National Immunization ...(100 of 151 words)