Timeline of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Big picture
Year/period | Key developments |
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1950s | The survival of CDC as an institution remains initially uncertain. However, two major health crises concerning poliomyelitis and influenza and well managed by CDC in the mid-1950s establishes its credibility and ensures its survival.[1] |
1980s | " A fatal disease, subsequently named acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), was first mentioned in the June 5, 1981, issue of MMWR. Since then, MMWR has published numerous follow-up articles about AIDS, and one of the largest portions of CDC's budget and staff is assigned to address this disease."[1] Since the 1980s, CDC supports influenza surveillance and laboratory capacity globally.[2] |
1990s | "The 1990s have been characterized by continuing applications of CDC's classic field-oriented epidemiology, as well as by the development of new methodologies. For example, the disciplines of health economics and decision sciences were merged to create a new area of emphasis -- prevention effectiveness -- as an approach for making more rational choices for public health interventions."[1] |
21st century | From 2007 to 2016 CDC would respond to over 20 crises each affecting over 10,000 people. From 2011 to 2016, CDC would deploy staff for over 380 missions in more than 40 countries to apply public health principles and epidemiologic science to mitigate the health impacts of complex emergencies.[2] Today, CDC is both the United States prevention agency and a global leader in public health.[1] |
Timeline
Year | Type of event | Event | Present time geographical location |
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1942 | "in early 1942, citing a need for better malaria control in military areas, the Public Health Service obtained money to create Malaria Control in War Areas (MCWA), which they headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia" "The Communicable Disease Center was organized in Atlanta, Georgia, on July 1, 1946; its founder, Dr. Joseph W. Mountin" | ||
1942 | Leadership | L.L. Williams assumes office as director of CDC.[3] | |
1944 | Leadership | Mark D. Hollis assumes office as director of CDC.[3] | |
1946 | CDC opens as the "Communicable Disease Center" in the old Office of Malaria Council in War Areas of downtown Atlanta.[4] The CDC is organized in Atlanta, Georgia, with American physician Joseph Walter Mountin as its founder.[1] | ||
1947 | Leadership | Raymond A. Vonderlehr assumes office as director of CDC.[3] | |
1947 | CDC’s headquarters become permanently attached to Atlanta after Emory University provides 15 acres of land.[5] | ||
1948 | "Malaria Control in War AreasExternal, a program within the U.S. Public Health Service, transitions into the Communicable Disease Center (CDC) on July 1"[6] | ||
1948 | "CDC stations the Laboratory Division at the Lawson Veterans Administration Hospital in Chamblee, Georgia"[6] | ||
1948 | "CDC established for communicable diseases"[6] | ||
1949 | American epidemiologist Alexander Langmuir assumes office of the epidemiology branch. Within months, Langmuir would launch the first-ever disease surveillance program.[1] | ||
1949 | CDC begins tackling salmonella.[7] | ||
1949 | "CDC’s Reference Diagnostic Service Center becomes available to all public health laboratories. Practicing physicians who have hard-to-identify specimens submit through their health departments"[6] | ||
1950 | "A team of CDC physicians, engineers, and entomologists is sent to Southeast Asia to assist in developing malaria control programs and public health programs as part of an overall technical and economic assistance program"[6] | ||
1950 | The CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) is created, motivated by the outbreak of the Korean War, and the threat of biological warfare.[1] | ||
1951 | CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service program is established. The first class of EIS officers arrive in Atlanta for training and pledge to go wherever they are called for the next 2 years. These "disease detectives" would quickly gain fame for "shoe-leather epidemiology" through which they find the cause of disease outbreaks. Within the two years, the program would give fellows on-the-job training in surveillance and response units that deal with all sorts of epidemics including chronic disease, injuries and, now, bioterrorism.[8][9] | ||
1952 | Leadership | Justin M. Andrews assumes office as director of CDC.[3] | |
1953 | Leadership | American Infectious disease specialist Theodore J. Bauer assumes office as director of CDC.[3] | |
1953 | CDC National Tuberculosis Surveillance System is established.[10] | ||
1953 | "CDC reports first case of rabies in a bat"[6] | ||
1953 | "The Communicable Disease Center National Surveillance Program is developed to maintain constant vigilance over communicable diseases to respond immediately when an outbreak occurs"[6] | ||
1954 | CDC establishes a National Rabies Control Activities Unit, with aims at providing a coordinated program for all aspects of the disease.[6] | ||
1954 | Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) is expanded to include other professional disciplines besides medicine. | ||
1955 | CDC establishes the Polio Surveillance Unit.[4] | ||
1955 | "CDC gains worldwide recognition for the quality and quantity of its contributions to the taxonomy of the Enterobacteriaceae, a family of germs that are difficult to treat because of their resistance to antibiotics"[6] | ||
1956 | Leadership | Robert J. Anderson assumes office as director of CDC.[3] | |
1956 | CDC develops a fluorescent antibody test for rapidly identifying bacterial and viral pathogens.[4] | ||
1956 | "The first practical use for the fluorescent antibody technique is utilized in CDC laboratories to research communicable diseases of bacterial origin"[6] | ||
1957 | The Venereal Disease Division is transferred from the United States Public Health Service to CDC, bringing two important innovations to its activities: a grant program and a new kind of employee, public health advisors.[1][6] | ||
1958 | CDC establishes the Influenza Surveillance Unit (1958).[4] | ||
Late 1950s | CDC acquires exclusive federal authority over communicable diseases.[11] | ||
1959 | "Standard New Jersey light trap is modified to create the CDC light trap, a light-weight and portable mosquito trap to collect samples in swamps and remote areas where electricity is not available"[6] | ||
1960 | CDC sets national blood lead levels of concern at sixty micrograms per deciliter of blood.[12] | ||
1960 | Leadership | Clarence A. Smith assumes office as director of CDC.[3] | |
1960 | Program | The Tuberculosis Program is transferred from the United States Public Health Service to CDC.[1][6] | |
1960 | "First National Health Examination Survey is conducted to collect data on the total prevalence of certain chronic diseases as well as the distribution of various physical and physiological measures"[6] | ||
1961 | CDC starts to explore birth defects and its association with cancer.[13] | ||
1961 | CDC starts publishing weekly magazine Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), a weekly compilation of deaths and disease causes from all over the United States..[14][15] | ||
1961 | "CDC takes over publication of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) from the National Office of Vital Statistics. MMWR is a weekly publication, containing a few short narrative reports and the weekly morbidity and mortality tables. It also publishes the annual “Summary of Notifiable Diseases”"[6] | ||
1962 | Leadership | American physician James L. Goddard assumes office as director of CDC.[3] | |
1962 | Branch | CDC lipid reference laboratory is designated as the WHO Collaborating Center for Reference and Research in Blood Lipids.[16] | |
1962 | CDC schedule recommends 3 childhood vaccines by age 5.[17] | ||
1962 | Branch | CDC establishes a smallpox surveillance unit.[1] | |
1963 | CDC tests a newly developed jet gun and smallpox vaccine in Tonga.[1] | ||
1964 | "CDC holds first meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), to provide advice and guidance on the appropriate use of biologics and other preventive medical agents for effective disease control in the civilian population"[6] | ||
1965 | Collaboration | CDC teams with USAID and proposes including smallpox eradication. Both organizations would spend the next year generating support among the 18 West and Central African countries that are prospective hosts for the program and working out collaboration with WHO.[18] | |
1966 | Leadership | American public health official David Sencer assumes office as director of CDC.[3] | |
1966 | Expansion | CDC begins work in Central and West Africa.[1] | |
1966 | Program | CDC begins the worldwide smallpox eradication campaign in Africa.[19] | |
1966 | Program | CDC announces a national measles eradication campaign at the American Public Health Association meeting.[6] | |
1966 | Program | The International Malaria Eradication Program is transferred to CDC from the United States Agency for International Development (AID).[6] | |
1967 | The Communicable Disease Center is renamed the National Communicable Disease Center.[20] | ||
1967 | CDC acquires quarantine authority.[21] | ||
1967 | "CDC begins the Metropolitan Atlanta Congenital Defects Program (MACDP) a population-based tracking system for birth defects in collaboration with Georgia Mental Health Institute and the Emory University School of Medicine"[6] | ||
1967 | The Foreign Quarantine Service is transferred from the Public Health Service to CDC.[1] | ||
1968 | CDC Laboratory-based Enteric Disease Surveillance system (LEDS) is established, and begins collecting serotype and demographic data for every Salmonella isolate obtained from a human and submitted to US state and territorial public health laboratories.[22] | ||
1968 | "NCDC (National Communicable Disease Center) becomes a bureau within the U. S. Public Health Service"[6] | ||
1969 | CDC helps set up a quarantine protocol for the Apollo 11 astronauts after their first walk on the moon.[23] | ||
1970 | Program | CDC establishes the National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance system, to monitor trends in infections acquired in hospital settings.[4] | |
1970 | CDC releases guidelines designed to isolate specific patients in given areas within a hospital.4-6 Seven categories of isolation are described.[24] | ||
1970 | "The National Communicable Disease Center (NCDC) is renamed Center for Disease Control (CDC)"[6] | ||
1970 | Program | The Nutrition Program is transferred to CDC, charged with assessing severe malnutrition in the United States and abroad.[6] | |
1971 | CDC discovers that hepatitis B is sexually transmitted.[4] | ||
1971 | Collaboration | CDC begins a cooperative effort with the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to stimulate investigation and reporting of waterborne outbreaks with the goal of prevention.[25] | |
1972 | CDC campaigns to eradicate measles all together by 1982.[26] | ||
1972 | Program | CDC establishes the national gonorrhea control program.[6] | |
1973 | Branch | CDC establishes the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) as an egency responsible for conducting research and making recommendations for the prevention of work-related injury and illness.[4] | |
1973 | Branch | CDC establishes an Office of Biosafety.[6] | |
1973 | "CDC begins regularly responding to public health crises abroad by providing famine assistance in sub-Saharan Africa"[6] | ||
1974 | Branch | CDC establishes the Bureau of Health Education, with the purpose of developing health curriculum for schools.[6] | |
1974 | CDC initiates the SENIC project, which would thereafter collect data in 338 randomly selected US hospitals. The objectives of the study are to estimate the magnitude of the nosocomial infection problem in US hospitals, to describe the extent of hospitals' infection surveillance and control programs, and to evaluate the efficacy and effectiveness of these programs in reducing nosocomial infection risks.[27] | ||
1975 | CDC publishes its first statement on lead poisoning, "Increased. Lead Absorption and Lead Poisoning in. Young Children."[28] | ||
1975 | Program | CDC establishes the vessel sanitation program in cooperation with the cruise ship industry. VSP assists the cruise ship industry to prevent and control the introduction, transmission, and spread of gastrointestinal (GI) illnesses on cruise ships.[6][29] | |
1976 | Branch | The National Clearinghouse for Smoking and Health (precursor to the Office on Smoking and Health) is transferred to CDC.[6] | |
1976 | "CDC sends disease detectives to investigate two large outbreaks of an unknown deadly hemorrhagic fever in Zaire and Sudan, a disease later known as Ebola"[6] | ||
1977 | Leadership | American epidemiologist William Foege assumes office as director of CDC.[3] | |
1977 | Branch | CDC's National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health reorganizes, assumes new mine safety and health responsibilities, and publishes Occupational Diseases: A Guide to Their Recognition.[6] | |
1977 | Publication | CDC first publishes recommendations for the control of hepatitis B in dialysis. This is later replaced by the current recommendations for preventing the transmission of infections in dialysis facilities.[30] | |
1978 | Publication | CDC publishes the first Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards through the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).[6] | |
1978 | CDC holds the first international conference on Legionnaires' disease.[6] | ||
1978 | Program | CDC establishes the first national health objectives for 1990.[6] | |
Late 1970s | CDC formulates a list of its main priorities, the most serious health problems facing the United States. The list includes smoking, alcohol abuse, unwanted pregnancies, car accidents, workplace injuries, environmental hazards, social disorders, suicide, homicide, mental illness, and stress.[11] | ||
1979 | The world is declared smallpox-free.[19] | ||
1979 | CDC assumes lead responsibility in the United States Public Health Service for environmental emergency response.[6] | ||
1979 | CDC endorses the goal of reducing the number of privately owned handguns, with an initial target of a 25 percent decrease by 2000.[11] | ||
1980 | CDC is renamed the Centers (plural) for Disease Control and begins to establish various centers within the CDC such as the National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH).[20] | ||
1980 | CDC begins assisting other countries to develop their own field epidemiology training programs (FETPs), modeling them after the highly successful Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) program.[31] | ||
1980 | "Congress creates the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, as a “sister agency” to CDC."[32] | ||
1980 | "MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) publishes the first report on a newly-recognized illness associated with tampon use: toxic shock syndrome; CDC organizes a task force to study the illness"[32] | ||
1982 | Program | CDC begins an international campaign to gather support for elimination of dracunculiasis.[32] | |
1982 | "CDC receives first reports of AIDS in persons with hemophilia, other transfusion recipients, and in infants born to mothers with AIDS"[32] | ||
1983 | Leadership | American medical doctor James O. Mason assumes office as director of CDC.[3] | |
1983 | "The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) is established; collecting data on emergency events involving the release of hazardous substances in the U.S."[32] | ||
1983 | CDC schedule raises recommendation to 10 childhood vaccines by age 5.[17] | ||
1983 | CDC establishes the Violence Epidemiology Branch to focus its public health efforts in violence prevention.[33] | ||
1983 | Branch | CDC establishes the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), which collects data on emergency events involving the release of hazardous substances in the United States.[32] | |
1983 | Program | CDC establishes the National AIDS Hotline to handle the growing number of calls concerning the AIDS virus.[32] | |
1984 | Program | CDC’s Prevention Research Center program is authorized by the United States Congress as a network of academic health centers to conduct applied public health research.[33] | |
1984 | Program | CDC establishes the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS).[33] | |
1985 | Publication | CDC publishes the first obesity map based on the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey (BRFSS) data.[34] | |
1985 | "CDC cosponsors the first International Conference on AIDS"[32] | ||
1986 | CDC establishes the Division of Epidemiology and Control.[33] | ||
1987 | CDC publishes the first in a series of articles about the prevalence and rate of HIV infection among racial/ethnic minority groups in the United States.[35] | ||
1987 | "Sentinel Event Notification System for Occupational Risk (SENSOR) program is established at NIOSH"[32] | ||
1987 | "The National Center for Health Statistics becomes an organizational component of CDC"[32] | ||
1988 | CDC mails information related to the prevention of AIDS to every household in America. However, these advancements are only to name a few | ||
1988 | CDC, in partnership with the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL), creates the National Laboratory Training Network (NLTN). Since then the NLTN would train thousands of laboratorians, providing access to critical training information needed to increase their competency and improve their knowledge.[36] | ||
1988 | Program | CDC develops the Disabilities Prevention Program to provide a national focus for the prevention of disabilities.[32] | |
1989 | "To improve laboratory training programs and communication among participants, the National Laboratory Training Network is established with the Association of State and Territorial Public Health Laboratory Directors in seven sites"[32] | ||
1990 | Leadership | William L. Roper assumes office as director of CDC.[3] | |
1990 | Publication | CDC publishes the “Guidelines for Investigating Clusters of Health Events,” in which a four-stage process is presented. This document provides a framework that most state health departments would adopt, with modifications pertaining to their specific situations, available resources, and philosophy concerning disease clusters.[37] | |
1990 | "CDC launches National Pharmaceutical Stockpile (now the Strategic National Stockpile), a stockpile of drugs, vaccines, and other medical products and supplies, to provide for the emergency health security of the US and its territories"[38] | ||
1990 | Program | The Safe Water System (SWS) is developed by CDC and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), to protect communities from contaminated water by promoting behavior change and providing affordable and sustainable solutions.[38] | |
1990 | Program | CDC develops guidelines for Telecommunications Systems for Surveillance, with aims at providing a systematic framework for public health surveillance data.[38] | |
1991 | Program | CDC creates the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program (NBCCEDP). Since the start of the program, more than 28,000 women would have cervical cancers or precancerous lesions detected through this free or low-cost screening.[39] | |
1991 | Branch | "CDC establishes the Division of Oral Health to expand efforts to prevent oral disease and conditions"[38] | |
1991 | "Begins development of a national strategic plan for early detection and control of breast and cervical cancers among all American women"[38] | ||
1992 | CDC again changes its name to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.[20] The agency is asked by the United States Congress to continue using the initials “CDC”.[38] | ||
1992 | CDC reactivates its guideline development process with the formation of The Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC).[40][20] | ||
1992 | CDC's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control is established.[38] | ||
1993 | CDC establishes PulseNET, a database comprised of DNA “fingerprints” of bacteria isolated from patients and food. Since then, PulseNET, receiving data from over 650 laboratories, would compare thousands of DNA fingerprints, thereby providing information about foodborne illness outbreaks that would have otherwise gone undetected.[41] | ||
1993 | Leadership | American physician David Satcher assumes office as director of CDC.[3] | |
1993 | "CDC establishes the Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Unit in the Division of Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities at the National Center for Environmental Health"[38] | ||
1993 | "National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) is established"[38] | ||
1994 | "CDC and the National Institute of Justice collaborate on the National Violence against Women Survey. The survey, conducted in 1995- 1996, provides the first national data on the incidence and prevalence of intimate partner violence, sexual violence, and stalking."[33] | ||
1994 | Program | The CDC Emerging Infections Program is established. Since then, it would provide a large amount of data on antibiotic–resistant infections (such as respiratory bacterial infections, healthcare–associated infections, and some aspects of foodborne illnesses).[42] | |
1994 | The CDC/ATSDR Office of Women's Health (OWH) is established to promote and improve the health, safety, and quality of life of women.[43] | ||
1994 | CDC issues its Guidelines for Preventing the Transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Health-Care Facilities which, among other things, advises a risk-based approach to screening.[44] | ||
1994 | "Emerging Infections Programs (EIP) are established in response to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) 1994 strategy, Addressing Emerging Infectious Disease Threats: A Prevention Strategy for the United States"[38] | ||
1994 | "CDC and the National Institute of Justice collaborate to create the National Violence against Women Survey. The survey, conducted in 1995-1996 will provide the first national data on the incidence and prevalence of violence against women"[38] | ||
1995 | CDC partners with the American College of Sports Medicine to develop the first recommendations for physical activity in adults.[45] | ||
1996 | "CDC establishes the National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA)"[38] | ||
1996 | "PulseNet, a national network of laboratories, launches to help detect and define outbreaks using the DNA of the foodborne bacteria making people sick"[38] | ||
1997 | CDC, the Food and Drug Administration and the United States Department of Agriculture initiate the National Food Safety Initiative (NFSI) as an effort to decrease the incidence and risks of foodborne illness.[46] | ||
1998 | CDC leads the creation of a Web-based system for the exchange of information by epidemiologists, EpiX. This system would grow to reach more than 800 public health professionals, providing updates on outbreaks of infectious disease and other public health threats and emergencies.[36] | ||
1998 | Leadership | Jeffrey P. Koplan assumes office as director of CDC.[3] | |
1999 | CDC issues the Guideline for Prevention of Surgical Site Infection as as a series of recommendations for the prevention of surgical site infections made by a panel of experts. The guidelines would serve the surgical community for many years.[47] | ||
1999 | CDC launches the Syphilis Elimination Effort to take advantage of a narrow window of opportunity to eliminate the disease and to significantly decrease one of the US's most glaring racial disparities in health.[48] | ||
2000 | "CDC receives congressional appropriations to establish 10 National Academic Centers of Excellence for Youth Violence Prevention."[33] | ||
2000 | CDC releases US DHHS Blueprint for Breastfeeding.[45] | ||
2000 | CDC sets up Centers of Public Health Preparedness to strengthen terrorism and emergency preparedness by connecting academic expertise with state and local health needs.[49] | ||
2001 | CDC establishes the Tuberculosis Epidemiologic Studies Consortium (TBESC). It is composed of 22 collaborative research groups, each existing as a formal partnership between an academic institution and a state or metropolitan TB control program.[50] | ||
2001 | "The Children’s Health Act (Public Law 106-310) establishes the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities (NCBDDD) at CDC. The Act expands research and services for a variety of childhood health problems and authorizes the establishment of Centers of Excellence at both CDC and NIH to promote research and monitoring efforts related to autism"[51] | ||
2001 | "National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities (NCBDDD) established."[51] | ||
2002 | Leadership | American infectious disease expert Julie Gerberding assumes office as director of CDC.[3] | |
2002 | "The CDC’s Healthier Worksite Initiative begins"[45] | ||
2002 | CDC develops and implements its Healthier Worksite Initiative on the CDC’s campuses. The initiative is based on the recognition that worksites are to adults as schools are to children and adolescents, insofar as adults spend a lot of time at worksites, and worksites present opportunities to modify food choices and promote physical activity.[52] | ||
2003 | CDC initiates the CDC Periodontal Disease Surveillance Project in collaboration with the American Academy of Periodontology to address population-based surveillance of periodontal disease at the local, state, and national levels.[53] | ||
2004 | Following the 2002–2003 severe acute respiratory syndrome outbreak, the United States Congress authorizes funding for CDC to establish a regional Global Disease Detection (GDD) Program.[2] | ||
2004 | "CDC collaborates with the Office of the Surgeon General to promote the Family History Initiative, the first public campaign addressing the issue of family health history. The Initiative designates Thanksgiving Day as National Family History Day. A web-based tool, My Family Health Portrait, is created to help people collect the disease histories of their families"[51] | ||
2004 | CDC establishes a national blood safety monitoring program for thalassemia, with the goal to monitor blood safety and strategies for the management of complications.[54] | ||
2004 | CDC develops a Web-based enterprise vocabulary system called the Public Health Information Network Vocabulary Access and Distribution System (PHIN VADS). PHIN MQF introduces vocabulary validation through a real time integration with PHIN VADS by accessing the Web services to validate that the vocabulary is valid for the specified message.[55] | ||
2004 – 2010 | "The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) funded the Centers for Public Health Preparedness (CPHP) Cooperative Agreement program from 2004 through 2010. CDC gave approximately $134 million to 27 CPHPs within accredited schools of public health to enhance the relationship between academia and state and local health agencies to strengthen public health preparedness" | ||
2005 | "Release of the CDC Guide to Breastfeeding Interventions"[45] | ||
2006 | CDC is placed on probation by the international accreditation group, the International Association for the Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care, for serious problems in caring for their research animals.[56] | ||
2007 | CDC establishes the Global Disease Detection Operations Center (GDDOC) to identify and monitor health threats to the American public and global community.[2] | ||
2008 | "Nutrition and Obesity Policy Research and Evaluation Network established by the CDC"[45] | ||
2008 | CDC creates the Global Public Health Informatics Program (GPHIP) to advance the science of public health informatics and further the CDC’s international objectives. GPHIP teams up with the global public health community to encourage data-driven decisions and implement best practices to create, refine, and carry out health information systems.[57] | ||
2008 | CDC publishes a new edition of its NHSN definitions of healthcare-associated infections and the criteria to apply the definitions of the infections.[58] | ||
2008 | CDC publishes guidelines for disinfection and sterilization in health care facilities based on the latest evidence available at that time.[59] | ||
2008 | "CDC’s Emergency Operations Center (EOC) activates for Hurricane Dolly; Tropical Storm Edouard, Hurricanes Gustav, Hanna, and Ike"[51] | ||
2009 | The CDC Emerging Infections Program launches a program and creates the Healthcare-Associated Infections Community Interface (HAIC) Activity, an essential tool providing with up-to-date and comprehensive understanding of healthcare-associated infections and the drug-resistant organisms that commonly cause them.[42] | ||
2009 | Leadership | American infectious disease and public health expert Tom Frieden assumes office as director of CDC.[3] | |
2010 | "Healthy People 2020 is published by DHHS. A new focus on blood disorders and blood safety addresses bleeding and clotting disorders, and hemoglobinopathies"[60] | ||
2012 | "CDC launches the groundbreaking “Tips from Former Smokers” national ad campaign on March 15, 2012, to increase awareness about the human suffering caused by smoking and to encourage smokers to quit"[60] | ||
2013 | CDC develops the free-to-use MicrobeNet, an online database which provides to public health laboratories with immediate access to the CDC’s virtual microbe library that contains more than 2,400 infectious bacteria and fungi.[61] | ||
2013 | "CDC activates its Emergency Operations Center to investigate a novel coronavirus called Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV)"[60] | ||
2013 | CDC establishes its PHEM Fellowship Program in response to increasing global requests for more sustained emergency management.[2] | ||
2013 | CDC receives accreditation from the Emergency Management Accreditation Program.[2] | ||
2014 | "On September 30, 2014, CDC confirmed the first travel-associated case of Ebola (the index case) to be diagnosed in the United States in a man who had traveled from West Africa to Dallas, Texas, and later sought medical care at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas after developing symptoms consistent with Ebola. That patient passed away from Ebola on October 8, 2014." | ||
2014 | "Global Health Security Agenda initiated"[60] | ||
2016 | The CDC launches an electronic system to help state and territory health officials report illnesses and environmental data specific to the threat.[62] | ||
2017 | Leadership | American obstetrician-gynecologist Brenda Fitzgerald assumes office as director of [[w:Centers for Disease Control and Prevention|CDC].[3] | |
2017 | Branch | The CDC Workplace Health Resource Center is launched as a source for reliable evidence and best practices to improve worker health and productivity, address research gaps, and potentially reduce health care costs.[63] |
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