To meet the needs of these new challenges in the area of disabilities, chronic diseases, and birth defects, CDC has strategically created Coordinating Centers that allow the agency to be more responsive and effective when dealing with the public whose health we protect.

Coordinating Centers like the Coordinating Center for Health Promotion provide a dedicated focal point for innovations—new activities such as the creation and advancement of health promotion in a much more systematic way. Together, CCHP is advancing a national health promotion agenda that helps move CDC from a solely disease-specific approach to the broadest concepts of health promotion and wellness.