Category: Updates from the Field

Tick, tock, tick tock—While others sleep, what are CDC experts doing to keep America safe?

Children wait for a bus on a street in downtown Mysore, India. The CDC is carrying out a range of programs in India to ensure a healthy and safe future for kids like these. (Photo Courtesy: David Snyder CDC Foundation)

As the clock ticks and people sleep peacefully, public health experts from CDC’s Division of Global Health Protection (DGHP) in collaboration with subject matter experts across CDC both in Atlanta and around the world are working 24/7 to support the agency’s mission to protect the health and safety of Americans and save lives. Keeping Read More >

March 27, 2017 by Kashef Ijaz, MD, MPH - Director (Acting) Division of Global Health Protection

Archive, Emergency Response and Recovery, global disease detection, global health security, health systems strengthening

Updates from the Field

Accelerating an Integrated Approach to NCD Prevention and Control Globally

Over the past 18 years, I’ve worked with Ministries of Health and other partners in 180 countries to advance CDC’s overarching global health goals and accelerate strategies for the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and injuries. NCDs and injuries are responsible for millions of premature deaths, especially in low- and middle-income counties (LMICs). Read More >

July 30, 2015 by Dr. Samira Asma, Chief, Global NCD Program, CDC2 Comments

Archive, noncommunicable diseases (NCDs)

alcohol, cardiovascular disease, DGHP, hypertension, road traffic injuries, strengthening health systems, tobacco, Updates from the Field