CDC and Partners: Promoting and Protecting Global Public Health
CDC works in partnership with other US government agencies, public health officials throughout the world, and nongovernmental organizations to protect and promote global public health. As CDC shares its resources and expertise, the agency learns more about diseases and conditions that exist or are emerging.Afghan-American CDC nutritionist among young schoolchildren in the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan.
A child is vaccinated during a measles campaign in Benin, Africa.
CDC staff deliver supplies to Panama and pick up samples for testing during an investigation of poisonings caused by contaminated cough syrup.
Health worker measures height of Chinese schoolchildren as part of nutritional assessment.
In an era of increasing globalization, the United States and the world face new challenges and opportunities in public health. CDC works in partnership with other agencies of the US government, public health officials throughout the world, and nongovernmental organizations to protect and promote global public health. CDC's Global Health Protection Goal sets priorities for CDC's global health activities and encourages investment in cross-cutting, innovative, and sustainable interventions, especially for vulnerable populations.
The Goal focuses on achieving objectives that will reduce or prevent global morbidity, mortality, and burden of disease, and will contribute to building the public health infrastructure required to promote and protect health. The objectives balance the protection of citizens within their own borders with the humanitarian goals of public health practice.
To achieve the Global Health Protection Goal, activities of CDC and its partners are aligned with the following broad themes:
- Health Protection—Protecting Americans and the global community through a transnational prevention, detection and response network that makes the world a safer and healthier place for all while protecting U.S. economic interests.
- Health Promotion—Promoting health by sharing knowledge, tools and other resources with populations and partners around the world. CDC develops and implements numerous culturally appropriate public health interventions that contribute to reductions in global morbidity and mortality.
- Health Diplomacy—Ensuring that CDC and the United States Government remain a trusted and effective resource for health development and health protection around the globe through investments in public health capacity development and partnership development.
Examples of CDC programs and partnerships around the world:
- President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief
- President's Malaria Initiative
- Global Polio Eradication
- Global Measles Program
- Tuberculosis Elimination
- Avian Influenza
- Pandemic Influenza Preparedness
- Coordinating Office for Global Health
- Border Infectious Disease Surveillance
- Border Activities, National Center for Environmental Health/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
- Field Epidemiology Training Program and Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Program
- Global Disease Detection
- Global Environmental Health
- Global Health Partnerships
- Global Migration and Quarantine
- Global Reproductive Health
- Global Road Safety
- Global Salm-Surv Network
- International Emergency and Refugee Health Program
- International Emerging Infections Program
- International Laboratory Activities
- International Micronutrient Malnutrition Prevention and Control (IMMPaCt) Program
- International Violence Prevention
- Occupational Safety and Health
- PulseNet International
- Safe Water
- Sustainable Management Development Program
- Travelers' Health
