Freedom of Information Act Importance to CDC Mission
CDC has one overriding goal: to protect the health of all Americans. At the core of this mission is information sharing – not just health information and disease study results, but information CDC gathers as part of a continuous process of putting information into action. As a science-based agency funded by U.S. taxpayers, CDC is committed to openness and accountability.
Information sharing is at the core of CDC’s one overriding goal: to protect the health of all Americans. To better meet this goal, CDC FOIA is committed to one objective:
Improve our customer service by:
- Working on reducing the agency’s overall backlog. As part of this effort contact requesters who have aged requests to determine if they are still interested in receiving responses to their requests.
- Improving our customer interactions by increasing communications, promptly returning all calls to our FOIA office and providing specific contact information for our Public Liaison on our website and acknowledge letters
- Streamlining our workflow processes to improve our efficiency and timeliness of responses to requests
Each FOIA office in HHS has a FOIA Requester Service Center that processes relevant FOIA requests.
FOIA Requester Service Centers
- AoA - Administration on Aging
- ACF - Administration for Children and Families
- AHRQ - Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
- CDC - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- CMS - Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
- FDA - Food and Drug Administration
- HRSA - Health Resources and Services Administration
- IHS - Indian Health Service
- NIH - National Institutes of Health
- OIG - Office of Inspector General
- PSC - Program Support Center
- PHS - Public Health Service
- SAMHSA - Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
- Page last reviewed: July 19, 2016
- Page last updated: July 19, 2016
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