CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL

(CDC)

By Bethany Grimm and Conni Cross

What is the CDC?

• The CDC is an organization that is dedicated to providing the public with medical information, researching medical illnesses, and all in all promoting a healthy, happy life

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHISh559oho

Where is it at?

There are many locations throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico, the main being the one located in Atlanta, Georgia.Other CDC offices are located in Florida, Tennessee, New York,and eighteen other states. However there is nooffice located in Ohio.

How is it funded?

The CDC is a government funded organization that uses 85% of it’s funding to contribute to the

promotion of a healthy life and preventing/ controlling the spread of diseases and injury.

Each year the total amount of money the CDC gives through grants accumulates to about $7

billion

What’s Going On?

• The CDC is working on several research projects, including……NHANES III Collaborative Genomics ProjectPublic health genomics investigationsHuman Genome Epidemiology NetworkEvaluation of Genomic Application in Practice and Prevention (EGAPP)Family History InitiativePublic health genomics capacity building

Methods For distribution

The CDC provides many different methods to obtain…

Posting the latest research for upcoming diseases

Providing office centers around the U.S. with some of the best research workers

Supporting organizations that better the quality of human life

Works Cited"About CDC." Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Centers for Disease

Control and Prevention , 29 Jul 2009. Web. 25 Feb 2013.

"About Us." Center for Disease Control and Prevention Healthy Aging Research Network. CDC-HAN, HPRC, n.d. Web. 25 Feb 2013.

10 Years of Public Health Genomics at CDC 1997-2007. Atlanta, Georgia: Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 2007. 7. eBook.