Coordinating Office for Global Health
About Our Office
Mission:
To improve health worldwide by providing leadership,
coordination, and support for CDC's global health activities in
collaboration with CDC's global health partners.
COGH accomplishes this mission on behalf of the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by:
- Providing leadership in the development of cross-cutting policy, plans, and programs related to CDC's global health interests.
- Assisting Centers/Institutes/Offices (CIOs), other federal agencies, countries, and non-governmental agencies in the implementation of appropriate policy, plans, and programs for which they have responsibilities.
- Enhancing global health partnerships by serving as the entry point for external organizations with an interest in CDC's global health activities.
- Supporting CDC staff in their international travel through passports, visas, and country clearance cables.<
- Coordinating interactions between Centers/Institutes/Offices, the Office of International and Refugee Health, and other key governmental entities on global health issues.
- Assessing evolving global health issues, and, in cooperation with Ministries of Health and other appropriate institutions, identifies and develops activities to which CDC's technical expertise would be of maximum benefit.
- Managing overseas and domestic staff whose service is primarily of a cross-cutting nature in global health initiatives.
- Accomplishing its tasks through policy coordination, advocacy, mobilizing resources, and building partnerships.
Content Source: Coordinating Office for Global Health
Page last modified: January 26, 2006
Page last modified: January 26, 2006
