Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Mission

To collaborate 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.
 

Parent Organizations

• Department of Health & Human Services

Subordinate Organizations

• Office of the Director
• Office of Public Health Preparedness and Emergency Response
• Office of State and Local Support
• Office of Noncommunicable Diseases, Injury and Environmental Health
• Office of Surveillance, Epidemiology and Laboratory Services
• Office of Infectious Diseases
• National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health
• Center for Global Health

Immediate Staff Positions

• Director, Thomas Frieden, MD, M.P.H.
  • Phone......: 404-639-7000
  • Fax........: 404-639-7111
  • E-mail.....: txf2@cdc.gov
  • Location...: Atlanta, GA

• Principal Deputy Director, Ileana Arias, PhD
  • Phone......: 404-639-7000
  • Fax........: 404-639-7171
  • E-mail.....: iaa4@cdc.gov
  • Location...: Atlanta, GA