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CDC’s New Coordinating Centers
CDC’s Futures Update
“We must find the right ways to bring people together to make a bigger
impact on the health of the population,” said CDC Chief of Science Dixie
Snider at a recent meeting for CDC’s leaders. “In the end we’re
even stronger when we embrace all the components of CDC.”
Coordinating Centers
CDC’s new Coordinating Centers bring together the agency’s Centers,
Institute, and Agency to achieve greater coordination across CDC and to increase
its ability to improve the health of the American people. CDC is developing
four Coordinating Centers (CC’s):
- Coordinating Center for Infectious Disease
- Including National Center for Infectious Diseases, National Center
for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention, National Immunization Program
- Coordinating Center for Environmental and Occupational Health and
Injury Prevention
- Including National Center for Environmental Health,
Agency for Toxic
Substances and Disease Registry, National Institute
for Occupational Safety and Health,
National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
- Coordinating Center for Health Promotion
- Including National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental
Disabilities, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and
Health Promotion,
Office of Genomics and Disease Prevention
- Coordinating Center for Public Health and Information Services
- Including National Center for Health Statistics and two new
centers for health marketing and informatics
Implementation and Impact
Coordinating Centers will strengthen the ability
of CDC’s centers to
serve their customers and work productively with partners by:
- Identifying and capitalizing on opportunities
for coordination and integration of research between centers and programs
to increase CDC’s health
impact
- Decreasing duplication and redundant activities in center programs,
thereby maximizing resources available to achieve public health goals and
streamline
logistics for CDC interaction with partners
- Providing leadership, management, and accountability for cross-center
goals and programs
CDC’s Centers, Agency, and Institute will
continue to:
- Serve as the foundation of CDC’s scientific
knowledge and expertise
- Be accountable for the quality of CDC’s
scientific programs
- Meet statutory requirements regarding CDC’s
Centers, Institute, and Agency (for example the director of NIOSH will
continue to serve
at the pleasure of
the Secretary of Health and Human Services)
- Maintain centers’ identities and disease
prevention foci as appropriate
Directors of CDC’s centers will continue as members of the Executive
Leadership Team, the body responsible for CDC’s overall direction and
leadership. This body is led by Dr. Gerberding, and it is the forum for decision
making, and the body that is held accountable for science and program development.
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