Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

• Mission
• To promote health and quality of life by
  preventing and controlling disease, injury and
  disability. (CDC Web site)
• Director, Julie Gerberding, Ph.D.
• History from 1946 to present

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Hot topics

• Tobacco
• Obesity
• Dietary patterns
• Quality of life among elderly
• Violence against women
• Bicycle helmet usage
• Environmental justice

• Hypochondria/health information credibility
• Bioterrorism response
• Eliminating racial/ethnic health disparities
• Global health
• Cancer prevention and control
• Antibiotic resistance

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Departments and programs

• National Center for Birth Defects and
  Developmental Disabilities
• National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention
  and Health Promotion
• National Center for Environmental Health
• National Center for Health Statistics
• National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention
• National Center for Infectious Diseases
• National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
  
• National Institution for Occupational Safety and
  Health
• National Immunization Program
• Epidemiology Program Office
• Public Health Practice Program Office

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Notable publications examples

• MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
• Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Hoaxes and Rumors from front page of Web site

• Summary of Notifiable Diseases (annually)
• DATA 2010 Healthy People 2010 Database
• Surveillance systems reports