Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
	Logo of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Agency overview
Formed	1 July 1946
Preceding agencies	Office of National Defense Malaria Control Activities (1942); Office of Malaria Control in War Areas (1942–46); Communicable Disease Center (1946–67); National Communicable Disease Center (1967–70); Center for Disease Control (1970–80); Centers for Disease Control (1980–92);
Jurisdiction	Federal Government of the United States
Headquarters	Atlanta
Employees	11,814
Agency executives	Mandy Cohen, Director; Nirav D. Shah, Principal Deputy Director;
Parent agency	United States Department of Health and Human Services
Website	https://www.cdc.gov

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (or CDC) are a United States federal agency under the Department of Health and Human Services. CDC main office is in Druid Hills, a neighborhood in northeastern Atlanta, Georgia. ^[2]^[3]^[4] It works to protect public health and safety. It provides information to enhance health decisions. It promotes health as a partner with state health departments and other organizations. When an infectious disease or bad food can cause health problems, the CDC will tell the nation how to fight it. The CDC works on environmental health, occupational safety and health, health promotion, injury prevention and education activities designed to improve the health of the people of the United States.

↑ "Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Salary Statistics". federalpay.org. Retrieved July 4, 2019. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had 10,899 employees in 2015 ...
↑ Home Page. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Retrieved on November 19, 2008. Archived 2006-03-31 at the Wayback Machine
↑ Groundbreaking held for new CDC virus research labs Archived 2017-10-13 at the Wayback Machine. Atlanta Journal-Constitution. December 3, 1985. A21. Retrieved on February 5, 2011. "[The new facility will sit behind and be connected to CDC's red-brick complex of buildings on Clifton Road in DeKalb County[...]"
↑ "Druid Hills CDP, GA Archived 2011-11-25 at the Wayback Machine." United States Census Bureau. Retrieved on May 5, 2009.