CDC Surveillance Strategy – A Strategy for Improving CDC Activities in Public Health Surveillance

CDC Surveillance Strategy – A Strategy for Improving CDC Activities in Public Health Surveillance

Objective This presentation aims to share the CDC Surveillance Strategy’s goals, initiatives and activities. The surveillance strategy describes how CDC will: enhance accountability, resource use, workforce and innovation for surveillance by establishing a Surveillance Leadership Board, a surveillance workforce plan, and an innovation consortium; accelerate the utilization of emerging tools and...

A new strategy for public health surveillance at CDC: improving national surveillance activities and outcomes.

472  Public Health Reports / November–December 2014 / Volume 129 The Executive Perspective column is a regular feature in Public Health Reports by leaders of offices under the Assistant Secretary for Health. In this installment, Drs. Chesley L. Richards, Michael F. Iademarco, and Tara C. Anderson describe the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) new strategy for federally ...

The CDC Prevention Strategy

The mission of CDC is to promote health and quality of life by preventing and controlling disease, injury, and disability. As the nation’s prevention agency, CDC accomplishes its mission by working with partners throughout the nation and the world to monitor health, formulate prevention strategies, develop sound public health policies, implement prevention strategies, promote healthy behaviors,...

CDC Activities for Improving Implementation of Human Papillomavirus Vaccination, Cervical Cancer Screening, and Surveillance Worldwide

Cervical cancer incidence and mortality rates are high, particularly in developing countries. Most cervical cancers can be prevented by human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination, screening, and timely treatment. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provides global technical assistance for implementation and evaluation of HPV vaccination pilot projects and programs and laboratory...

SURVEILLANCE STRATEGY IMPROVEMENTS Framework for PREDICT’s Surveillance Strategy