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Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
Office of the Director
- Establishes and interprets division policies and determines program
priorities.
- Coordinates and develops partnerships and constituencies to build a
national infrastructure for nutrition and physical activity
surveillance, needs assessment and program development, implementation
and evaluation.
- Builds the science base to support and develop a national focus for
policy and intervention programs addressing physical activity and
nutrition.
- Promotes programs on physical activity and nutrition by informing
the public and policymakers of issues and programs and encourages the
expansion of successful programs nationwide.
- Ensures that division activities are coordinated with NCCDPHP and
with other CIOs, constituencies, and federal agencies.
- Monitors progress towards achieving division objectives and
assessing the impact or programs.
- Plans and develops special training and capacity building activities
in support of division programs.
- Provides administrative and management support for division
activities including guidance organizing personnel and using financial
resources.
- Integrates health communications efforts with overall program
efforts to reduce diseases associated with poor nutrition and
sedentary lifestyles, and works with federal, national, and
state-level partners who can mobilize their constituents to ensure
consistent messages.
- Provides national leadership and expertise in health communication
programs to promote nutrition and physical activity.
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Chronic Disease Nutrition Branch
- Designs, implements, and evaluates surveillance activities,
epidemiologic studies and intervention demonstration projects related
to chronic disease nutrition problems and risk factors.
- Develops and coordinates state-based dietary surveillance relating
to chronic disease nutrition problems and risk factors; builds state
capacity to carry out surveillance activities.
- Provides assistance, consultation, and training to state, local and
international agencies to prevent and control chronic disease and
relevant risk factors.
- Analyzes and interprets data from surveys, surveillance activities,
and epidemiologic studies related to chronic disease nutrition
problems and related risk factors.
- Develops and disseminates guidelines for chronic disease nutrition
assessment, intervention, and surveillance.
- Coordinates and collaborates with appropriate federal agencies and
national organizations to strengthen and extend chronic disease
nutrition surveillance, epidemiology, and intervention activities.
- Develops new methods, techniques, and criteria and conducts
activities related to assessing chronic disease nutrition problems and
related risk factors in the United States and other countries.
- Coordinates and collaborates with other divisions in NCCDPHP to
develop and strengthen the chronic disease nutrition components of
their programs as appropriate.
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Maternal and Child Nutrition Branch
- Designs, implements, and evaluates epidemiological studies and
intervention projects related to nutritional and behavioral risks in
maternal and child populations.
- Designs, implements, and evaluates epidemiologic studies and
intervention projects related to micronutrient, especially, iron
nutrition.
- Develops and coordinates state-based maternal and child nutrition
surveillance and surveys; builds state capacity to carry out
surveillance activities.
- Provides assistance, consultation, and training to state, local and
international agencies to prevent and control adverse maternal and
child health outcomes related to nutritional and behavioral risk
factors.
- Analyzes and interprets data from surveys, surveillance activities,
and epidemiologic studies related to health and nutrition in domestic
and international maternal and child populations.
- Develops and disseminates new methods, techniques, guidelines, and
criteria for nutrition assessment, surveillance, and intervention in
domestic and international maternal and child populations.
- Coordinates and collaborates with appropriate federal agencies and
national and international organizations to develop and strengthen
maternal and child nutrition programs.
- Coordinates and collaborates with other divisions in NCCDPHP and
other CDC centers, institutes, and offices to develop and strengthen
the maternal and child nutrition components of their programs, as
appropriate.
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Physical Activity and Health Branch
- Develops and evaluates effective interventions to be used by state
and local health agencies to mitigate sedentary lifestyle and other
modifiable risk factors for selected chronic diseases.
- Carries out epidemiologic research related to physical activity,
health, and the prevention of chronic disease.
- Conducts evaluation studies to document the efficacy and
effectiveness of disease prevention and health promotion interventions
involving physical activity.
- Develops monitoring and tracking systems for physical activity
behaviors.
- Provides leadership developing components and guidelines for
effective chronic disease prevention and health promotion strategies
through physical activity.
- Develops and produces communication tools and public affairs
strategies related to physical activity and health in collaboration
with DNPA's communications team.
- Provides technical assistance to state and local health agencies in
planning, establishing, and evaluating physical activity promotion
strategies.
- Translates physical activity and exercise research findings into
public health practice.
- Disseminates findings from epidemiologic research and program
evaluations through publications in scientific literature.
- Collaborates in providing responses to state health agencies for
intervention assistance related to physical inactivity as a specific
risk factor for chronic disease.
- Collaborates with appropriate groups internal and external to CDC.
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