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Vision
Our vision is that countries throughout the world have effective and equitable public health systems to protect communities and enable people to live healthy and productive lives.


Mission
Working with Ministries of Health and public health partners, we are committed to strengthening public health systems and developing the workforce using solid science, innovative programs, and a commitment to building sustainable capacity that meets our partners’ national priorities.

We believe that strong public health systems globally are needed to improve and protect the public’s health, and to respond effectively to the ever-changing public health challenges. We are committed to effectively collaborate with our public health partners and to respect the diversity of global public health practices, resources, and experiences.


Implementing CDC's Global Health Promotion, Health Protection, and Health Diplomacy Goals

DGPHCD, with the help of its many national and international partners, strives to protect, promote, and improve the health of people around the globe. Through our active, direct, and daily involvement with national and international partners, we play a key role in addressing all three of CDC’s global health goals of Healthy People in a Healthy World through health promotion, health protection, and health diplomacy, thus helping to increase the agency’s global health impact.

DGPHCD supports global health promotion by providing consultations, advice, training, and follow-up support to foreign governments, thus helping promote health and prevent diseases and disease outbreaks around the world. DGPHCD works with international partners to develop and disseminate health training and establish health programs that are tailored to a country’s specific individual needs, thus helping to ensure the successful implementation of a country’s health promotion goals.

DGPHCD supports global health protection by collaborating with international partners to help them develop their capacity to detect, diagnose, monitor, control, and contain existing, new, and emerging health threats. DGPHCD helps countries develop and set up epidemiology surveillance, outbreak response, and tracking programs so that health threats can be dealt with in a timely and effective manner, thus preventing diseases from spreading around the globe.

DGPHCD supports global health diplomacy by fostering close partnerships with Ministries of Health in the developing and the developed world, U.S. diplomatic facilities abroad, and international agencies. DGPHCD staff work directly with these foreign entities to provide hands-on support and training to help people around the world lead healthier, safer lives.

 


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