The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the national public health agency of the United States. A U.S. federal government agency, the CDC is part of the U.S. Public Health Service of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), and is headquartered in Atlanta, GA. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) collaborates 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. It promotes healthy behaviors and safe, healthy environments; keeps track of health trends; tries to find the cause of health problems and outbreaks of disease; and responds to new public health threats. The CDC works with state health departments and other organizations throughout the country and the world to help prevent and control disease.
Additional resources:
• https://www.cdc.gov/