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CDC is the nation’s leading science-based, data-driven, service organization that protects the public’s health. For more than 70 years, we’ve put 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.
CDC Strategic Plan 2022-2027
Advancing Science and Health Equity
On January 21, 2020 CDC launched its agency wide response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It has been the largest response to any disease outbreak in CDC’s history.
Our job is to prevent, detect, and respond to diseases wherever they are so that diseases don’t come into the United States.
CDC provides domestic and international leadership, as well as laboratory and epidemiology expertise, to respond and work toward eliminating every disease we can.
When epidemics like seasonal influenza, new HIV infections, and opioid overdoses occur, we work to quickly detect and address them to reduce their potential impact in America.
Who We Are
CDC is one of the major operating components of the Department of Health and Human Services
Rochelle P. Walensky, MD, MPH
Rochelle P. Walensky, MD, MPH, is the 19th Director of the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention and the ninth Administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.
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