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Since 1994, CDC has striven to revitalize national capacity to protect the public from infectious disease. Yet safeguarding U.S. health requires international action and cooperation, because U.S. health and global health are inextricably linked. A disease that emerges or reemerges anywhere in the world can spread far and wide. When this occurs, U.S. citizens and foreign governments alike have come to rely on CDC to provide assistance and information. Established diseases from HIV/AIDS to polio also demand increasing attention.

Growing international engagement has stimulated CDC to rethink its infectious disease priorities, because it is far more effective to help other countries control or prevent dangerous diseases at their source than try to prevent their importation.

This document, Protecting the Nation’s Health in an Era of Globalization: CDC’s Global Infectious Disease Strategy, represents an important advance in defining CDC’s evolving global mission and in considering how CDC and its international partners can work together to improve global capacity for disease surveillance and outbreak response.

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Date published: 2002

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