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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the world’s premier health promotion, prevention, and preparedness agency and a global leader in public health. CDC is responsible for collaborating to create the expertise, information, and tools that people and communities need to protect their health – through health promotion, prevention of disease, injury and disability, and preparedness for new health threats.
CDC accomplishes its mission by working with partners throughout the nation and the world to provide a system of health surveillance and to monitor and prevent disease outbreaks, implement disease prevention strategies, promote healthy behaviors, foster safe and healthful environments, and maintain vital national health statistics.

Those functions are the backbone of CDC?s mission. Each of CDC?s component organizations undertakes these activities in conducting its specific programs. The steps needed to accomplish this mission are also based on scientific excellence, requiring well-trained public health practitioners and leaders dedicated to high standards of quality and ethical practice.
The CDC is one of the 13 major operating components of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, CDC also has offices located in Anchorage, Alaska; Cincinnati, Ohio; Fort Collins, Colorado; Hyattsville, Maryland; Morgantown, West Virginia; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Research Triangle Park, North Carolina; San Juan, Puerto Rico; Spokane, Washington; Washington, D.C. and in 54 countries overseas. In addition, many CDC employees work in quarantine stations or state and local health departments in all of the fifty states and throughout the world.

Visit our website at www.cdc.gov.