Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
U.S. Department of Health and Human ServicesBiography
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is one of the major operating components of the Department of Health and Human Services and works to protect America from health, safety and security threats, both foreign and in the U.S.
Biosecurity-related organizations and divisions operating under the CDC include:
- Center for Global Health
- Office of Readiness and Response
- Division of High-Consequence Pathogens and Pathology (DHCPP)
- Office of Public Health Data, Surveillance, and Technology (OPHDST)
- National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID)
- National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD)
- Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR)
- National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
- National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
- Office of Science
- Division of Foodborne, Waterborne, and Environmental Diseases (DFWED)
- Division of Preparedness and Emerging Infections (DPEI)
- Division of Vector-Borne Diseases (DVBD)
- Division of Global Health Protection (DGHP)
- Global Disease Detection (GDD) Operations Center
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FEATURED NEWS
Healthcare Workers Express Outrage at Flawed CDC Mask Guidance
A CDC advisory committee has been updating its 2007 standards for infection control in hospitals this year. Many health care professionals and scientists expressed outrage after the group released a draft of its proposals in June. The draft controversially concluded that N95 face masks are equivalent to looser, surgical face masks in certain settings — and that doctors and nurses need to wear only surgical masks when treating patients infected by “common, endemic” viruses, like those that cause the seasonal flu.
CDC Announces $262M to Support National Network for Outbreak Response and Disease Modeling
The grantees will work as a network to identify gaps, needs and opportunities for outbreak analytics and disease modeling in the U.S. public health system; pilot and implement analytic technologies and applications for public health; and prepare for and respond to infectious disease threats.
GLOBAL BIODEFENSE ARCHIVES
- The Painful Pandemic Lessons Facing the New CDC Director
- Mpox Diagnostics: CDC Authorizes Five Commercial Lab Companies
- Political Pitfalls in Handling Ebola May Carry Over to Zika
- Biosurveillance Network of Travel and Tropical Medicine Practitioners
- Improving DHS Biological Detection and Surveillance Programs
- CDC’s New Director of Public Health Preparedness and Response
- CDC Increases Preparedness Grants for Ebola Monitoring
- CDC Updates PPE Guidance for Ebola
- CDC Announces New External Biosafety Advisory Committee
- Transcript of CDC Press Conference on Biosafety Incidents
- CDC Emergency Response Branch Expanding Toxin Testing Capabilities
- Anthrax Exposures at CDC While Testing New Inactivation Method