Division of Global Health Protection (DGHP)
Read our stories about responding to COVID-19.
Learn about FETP's work as we celebrate our 40th anniversary.
Read our Health Security Supplement: What Works? Lessons in Global Health Security Implementation.
Learn about our contributions to the Global Health Security Agenda.
Global health protection is about more than one country, one issue, or one pathogen. Many factors affect our health security, like infectious diseases, humanitarian crises, and the growing burden of noncommunicable diseases. No matter what the cause, the Division of Global Health Protection (DGHP) and its partners across CDC and the globe are working to protect health and save lives.
A recent CDC article examines how our global health work protects the health and economic well-being of the whole U.S., as well as individual states.
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Learn more about CDC’s work protecting jobs and economy through Global Health Security.
- Updates from the Field
Stories About Responding to COVID-19 (Fall 2020) - FETP 40th Anniversary
This year, CDC celebrates Field Epidemiology Training Program (FETP)’s 40th anniversary - FETP Photo Gallery
FETPs over the years responding in communities around the world - CDC and 5 Years of GHSA
Global Health Security Agenda work
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Volunteers from the Democratic Republic of Congo deploying to support COVID-19 response in other French-speaking African countries. Photo: Africa CDC
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