About CDC's Injury Center: Organization

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The National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, CDC’s “Injury Center,” includes the Office of the Director and three divisions.

The Office of the Director is led by the Director, the Deputy Director (DD), and the Deputy Director for Management and Operations (DDMO). It includes these elements:

• Office of Science (OS)
  • Extramural Research Program Office (ERPO)
• Office of Program Management & Operations (OPMO)
• Office of Strategy & Innovation (OSI)
• Office of Communication (OC)
• Office of Policy & Partnerships (OPP)
• Opioid Response Coordinating Unit (ORCU)
• Office of Informatics (OI)

The Injury Center includes three divisions:

• • Division of Overdose Prevention (DOP)
  • Division of Violence Prevention (DVP)
  • Division of Injury Prevention (DIP)

Division of Overdose Prevention

• Epidemiology & Surveillance Branch
  • Mortality Team
  • Morbidity Team
  • State & Local Technical Assistance Team A
• Health Systems & Research Branch
  • Clinical Practice Team
  • Applied Research, Evaluation & Integration Team

• Prevention Programs & Evaluation Branch
  • Applied Prevention Science Team
  • Program Evaluation Team
  • Field Services Team
  • State & Local Technical Assistance Team B

Division of Violence Prevention

• Surveillance Branch
  • Mortality Surveillance Team
  • Morbidity & Behavioral Surveillance Team
  • Surveillance Coordination Team
• Research & Evaluation Branch
  • Youth Violence & Emerging Topics Team
  • Sexual & Intimate Partner Violence Team
  • Child Abuse, Neglect & Adversity Team

• Prevention Practice & Translation Branch
  • Child Maltreatment/Youth, Teen dating & Intimate Partner Violence Team
  • Intimate Partner & Sexual Violence Prevention Team
  • Program Evaluation & Translation Team

• Field Epidemiology & Prevention Branch
  • Implementation Team
  • Data Team

Division of Injury Prevention

• Applied Science Branch
  • Transportation Safety Team
  • Traumatic Brain Injury Team
  • Safety Promotion Team
  • Suicide Prevention Team
• Data Analytics Branch
  • Economics Team
  • Applied Statistics Team
  • Programming & Web Applications Team
  • Data Science Team
• Program Implementation & Evaluation Branch
  • State, Local, & Tribal Support Team
  • Evaluation Team