Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

The **Centers for Disease Control and Prevention** (or **CDC**) are a United States federal agency under the Department of Health and Human Services.  CDC main office is in Druid Hills, a neighborhood in northeastern Atlanta, Georgia.   It works to protect public health and safety. It provides information to enhance health decisions. It promotes health as a partner with state health departments and other organizations. When an infectious disease or bad food can cause health problems, the CDC will tell the nation how to fight it. The CDC works on environmental health, occupational safety and health, health promotion, injury prevention and education activities designed to improve the health of the people of the United States of America.

## Agencies under the CDC

The CDC has agencies that work under it:
- NIOSH, which checks things people wear for job safety.
- ATSDR, which lists chemicals that make people sick.

## Foundation

The CDC Foundation is separate from CDC as a private, nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization. It is incorporated in the State of Georgia. Section 399F of the Public Health Service Act created the foundation to help the CDC work with the private sector.

## Leadership

Up to mid-August 2025, Susan Monarez was supposed to be the leader of the CDC. However, in late-August, a decision was made to fire her, and that decision was later confirmed by the US President. Monarez disagreed with the firing, and clarified that she had not resigned. The reason for firing her is very controversial.

### List of directors

||Portrait|Director|Term start|Term end||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1||Louis L. Williams Jr.|1942|1943||
|2||Mark D. Hollis|1944|1946||
|3||Raymond A. Vonderlehr|1947|December 1951||
|4||Justin M. Andrews|January 1952|January 1953||
|5||Theodore J. Bauer|January 15, 1953|August 1956||
|6||Robert J. Anderson|October 1, 1956|June 30, 1960||
|7||Clarence A. Smith|July 1960|August 1962||
|8||James L. Goddard|September 1, 1962|January 1966||
|9||David J. Sencer|February 1966|May 1977||
|10||William H. Foege|May 1977|November 30, 1983||
|11||James O. Mason|December 1, 1983|April 1989||
|Acting||Walter Dowdle|April 1989|February 28, 1990||
|12||William L. Roper|March 1, 1990|June 30, 1993||
|Acting||Walter Dowdle|July 1, 1993|November 14, 1993||
|13||David Satcher|November 15, 1993|February 13, 1998||
|Acting||Claire V. Broome|February 14, 1998|October 4, 1998||
|14||Jeffrey P. Koplan|October 5, 1998|March 31, 2002||
|acting||David Fleming|April 1, 2002|June 2, 2002||
|15||Julie Gerberding|June 3, 2002|January 20, 2009||
|interim||William Gimson|January 20, 2009|January 22, 2009||
|acting||Richard Besser|January 22, 2009|June 7, 2009||
|16||Thomas R. Frieden|June 8, 2009|January 20, 2017||
|acting||Anne Schuchat|January 20, 2017|July 6, 2017||
|17||Brenda Fitzgerald|July 7, 2017|January 31, 2018||
|acting||Anne Schuchat|February 1, 2018|March 26, 2018||
|18||Robert R. Redfield|March 26, 2018|January 20, 2021||
|19||Rochelle Walensky|January 20, 2021|June 30, 2023||
|acting||Nirav D. Shah|July 1, 2023|July 10, 2023||
|20||Mandy Cohen|July 10, 2023|January 20, 2025||
|acting||Susan Monarez|January 23, 2025|March 24, 2025||
|acting||Matthew Buzzelli|March 24, 2025|July 30, 2025||
|21||Susan Monarez|July 31, 2025|August 27, 2025||
|acting||Jim O'Neill|August 28, 2025|_Incumbent_||

## Other websites

- The CDC Homepage
- CDC Online Newsroom
- CDC Health Topics A to Z
- CDC Public Health Image Library
- CDC Global Communications Center
- CDC Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratory– Atlanta, Georgia
- Centers For Disease Control And Prevention Meeting Notices and Rule Changes  from The Federal Register RSS Feed
- Proposed and finalized federal regulations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

## Infobox (government agency)

- **agency name**: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- **logo**: CDC logo 2024.svg
- **logo width**: 140 px
- **formed**: October 27, 1992
- **preceding1**: Office of National Defense Malaria Control Activities (1942)
- **preceding2**: Office of Malaria Control in War Areas (1942–1946)
- **preceding3**: Communicable Disease Center (1946–1967)
- **preceding4**: National Communicable Disease Center (1967–1970)
- **preceding5**: Center for Disease Control (1970–1980)
- **preceding6**: Centers for Disease Control (1980–1992)
- **jurisdiction**: Federal government of the United States
- **headquarters**: Druid Hills, Georgia, Druid Hills, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia
- **employees**: 15,000
- **budget**: 8.8 billion United States dollar, USD (2008)
- **chief1 name**: Mandy Cohen, director
- **chief1 position**: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- **parent agency**: United States Department of Health and Human Services