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Fiscal Year 2008 Snapshot

In an era of limited fiscal resources and many competing priorities, CDC is committed to leveraging resources to achieve maximum health results and reduce health disparities. As new health threats emerged, CDC’s mission expanded and its funding continued to increase. Prioritizing the agency’s activities within the four overarching Health Protection Goals ensures the focus remains on optimizing health impact in every laboratory on our campus, in every program funded, in all health protection research, and in every outbreak CDC and its partners contain.

The FY 2008 CDC/ATSDR budget of $9.2 billion reflects an increase of approximately $100 million above the FY 2007 Appropriation level. The FY 2008 budget for CDC addressed a balanced portfolio of health protection activities, emphasizing preparation for the urgent threats of today and those anticipated in the future. This dual emphasis reflects CDC’s complex mission in the twenty-first century—to protect the public’s health against major calamities such as pandemic influenza, natural disasters, and terrorism—while remaining focused on the threats to health and well-being that Americans face each day, including chronic diseases, injuries, and disabilities.

2008 Funding by Disease Category

• 36% - Immunization **
• 16% - Terrorism
• 12% - Other ***
• 11% - HIV/AIDS, STD, and TB Prevention
• 9% - Chronic Diseases Prevention, Health Promotion, and Genomics
• 4% - Infectious Disease Control *
• 4% - Occupational Safety & Health
• 3% - Global Health
• 2% - Environmental Health
• 1% - Agency for Toxic Substance & Disease Registry
• 1% - Birth Defects, Developmental Disabilities, Disability & Health
• 1% - Injury Prevention & Control

CDC’s contemporary scope of public health activities includes addressing issues ranging from terrorism to chronic disease. The agency faces the challenge of balancing immediate, highly publicized, and often sensational urgent realities with underlying, long-term health realities facing the United States and the world. While striving to develop capacity for new programs, such as the expansion in preparedness programs occurring in FY 2002, CDC also strives to maintain excellence in existing programs like chronic disease. For more information, visit www.cdc.gov/fmo.

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