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CDC: Infectious Diseases

The Infectious Diseases program works to prevent illness, disability and death caused by infectious diseases. The program is active both domestically and internationally, as it protects the U.S. population from infectious diseases and minimizes the impact of such diseases at their source.

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PERFORMING
Adequate

This rating describes a program that needs to set more ambitious goals, achieve better results, improve accountability or strengthen its management practices.
  • The Infectious Diseases program has helped control infectious disease. The program addresses infectious disease outbreaks, a continuing threat to our nation's health that can have huge medical and economic consequences. Its focus is on both newly emerging infections such as West Nile Virus and SARS, as well as ongoing challenges such as influenza.
  • The program has been the subject of multiple reports from the Government Accountability Office and has had targeted evluations to help fill in gaps in performance information. In general, these reports have highlighted areas of needed improvement, but document the program's positive impact on controlling diseases.
  • The program adopted long-term measures focused on food-borne pathogens, bloodstream infections, illness from bacterial pneumonia, and hepatitis A. It also measures progress in global influenza surveillance and detection as one key indicator of the U.S.'s preparedness for a pandemic influenza outbreak.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Tracking performance on performance measures.
  • Enhancing budget and performance integration to identify changes in program outcomes associated with resource levels.
  • Making grantee performance data available to the public in a more transparent and meaningful way.

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