Public Health Research Toolkit
Transfusion-Transmitted Infectious Diseases Working Party Surveillance, Risk Assessment & Policy Subgroup (SRAP), 2022
Which agencies cover what aspects globally?
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is an agency under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It’s “serves as the national focus for developing and applying disease prevention and control, environmental health, and health promotion and health education activities designed to improve the health of the people of the United States.”
- Website:
- www.cdc.gov/
CDC Public Health and Surveillance and Data
The CDC surveillance systems fall into four broad categories covering infectious diseases, noninfectious health conditions, both infectious and noninfectious diseases and health conditions, and risk factors and exposures. The “Data Modernization Initiative Strategic Implementation Plan is charting a course to a future where public health data drives action in real time by tapping into more data sources, promoting health equity, and increasing capacities for scalable outbreak response, forecasting, and predictive analytics”.
- Website:
- www.cdc.gov/surveillance/
Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CCDC)
Under the leadership of the National Health Commission of the People’s Republic of China, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC) provides technical guidance and supports public health. “Its mission is to create a safe and healthy environment, maintain social stability, ensure national security and promote the health of people through prevention and control of disease, injury and disability. Devoted itself to disease control and prevention, it sticks to relying on scientific research and values talent as fundamental element.”
- Website:
- en.chinacdc.cn/
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)
An agency of the European Union, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) is “…aimed at strengthening Europe's defences against infectious diseases. The core functions cover a wide spectrum of activities: surveillance, epidemic intelligence, response, scientific advice, microbiology, preparedness, public health training, international relations, health communication, and the scientific journal Eurosurveillance.”
- Website:
- www.ecdc.europa.eu/en
UK Health Security Agency
Public Health England has been replaced by the UK Health Security Agency under the Department of Health and Social Care effective 1 October 2021. The reform of public health is intended to unite “national public health science and response capabilities to protect against infectious diseases and external health threats – in bad times and in good.”
World Health Organization (WHO)
Within the United Nations, the World Health Organization (WHO) focuses internationally on health, disease prevention and burden while leading global responses to health emergencies.
- Website:
- www.who.int/
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