About the Center 

CDC’s National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP) is at the forefront of the nation's efforts to prevent and control chronic diseases. On these pages, read about our:

• Mission/Vision/Priorities
• Programs
• Funding Opportunities Announcements
• Organizational Chart
• Budget

Mission/Vision/Priorities

Vision

All people living healthy lives free from the devastation of chronic diseases.

Mission

To lead efforts that promote health and well-being through prevention and control of chronic diseases.

Strategic Priorities

• Focus on Well-Being: Increase emphasis on promoting health and preventing risk factors, thereby reducing the onset of chronic health conditions.
• Health Equity: Leverage program and policy activities, build partner capacities, and establish tailored interventions to help eliminate health disparities.
• Research Translation: Accelerate the translation of scientific findings into community practice to protect the health of people where they live, work, learn, and play.
• Policy Promotion: Promote social, environmental, policy, and systems approaches that support healthy living for individuals, families, and communities.
• Workforce Development: Develop a skilled, diverse, and dynamic public health workforce and network of partners to promote health and prevent chronic disease at the national, state, and local levels.

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Programs

NCCDPHP supports a variety of activities that improve the nation's health by preventing chronic diseases and their risk factors. Program activities include one or more of our major functions: supporting states’ implementation of public health programs; public health surveillance; translation research; and developing tools and resources for stakeholders at the national, state, and community levels. Our major program areas are listed below.

• Arthritis
• Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
• Cancer Control
• Diabetes
• Epilepsy
• Genomics
• Healthy Aging
• Healthy Youth
• Heart Disease and Stroke
• Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity
• Oral Health
• Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grant
• Prevention Research Centers
• REACH
• Reproductive Health
• Steps Program
• Tobacco
• WISEWOMAN

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Funding Opportunities Announcements

NCCDPHP works with many diverse partners, including state and local health and education departments; other federal health agencies; international and national health organizations; academic institutions; philanthropic foundations; industry and labor groups; and professional, voluntary and community organizations.

For information about current funding opportunities, visit http://www.cdc.gov/od/pgo/funding/FOAs.htm and click on the link for National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Funding Opportunities (NCCDPHP).

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Organizational Chart

Click the individual boxes to learn more about the offices and divisions.

(A text description of this chart is also available.)

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Budget

In FY 2008, Congress appropriated $834 million to CDC for Chronic Disease Prevention, Health Promotion and Genomics. For additional information about the Center’s budget, please visit:

http://www.cdc.gov/fmo/PDFs/FY07-09_Functional_Table.pdf (PDF-27KB)

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One or more documents on this Web page is available in Portable Document Format (PDF). You will need Acrobat Reader (a free application) to view and print these documents.

Page last reviewed: November 24, 2008
Page last modified: November 24, 2008
Content source: National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion