Cdc Organizational Structure

The Center for Disease Control (CDC) and public safety are planned, organized, prevented, and responded to through an organized structure similar to an emergency response command team. The CDC and other government agencies has a decision making process before handling a strategic action plan when dealing with infectious diseases that may start in America or from a foreign place. Infectious diseases are caused by organisms such as bacteria, viruses, fungi or parasites, and organisms can live inside and outside of our bodies. The CDC planning structure is designed to expose, investigate, and monitor any new or old infectious diseases to protect the public from a plague scenario. A curable illness can be treated and recovered from a preventable

The CDC organizational structure is similar to a Public Safety Health Administration (PSHA) command staff when they deal with emergencies. The PSHA command staff has the Incident Commander where everyone involved reports to. The CDC has a Director that every department reports to whether it is an emergency or not. The CDC’s Director has four departments of chiefs that deal with federal laws and four departments of assistant directors that deal with Washington D. C., science, communication, and policy. Underneath the Director and his or her chiefs and assistant directors are the Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response (OPHPR) Department and the Office of State, Tribal, Local and Territorial Support

According to Donovan, Markiewicz, and Horney (2014), “PHEP cooperative agreements are the main source of funding that state health departments use to develop and maintain their ability to effectively respond to public health threats, including infectious diseases, natural disasters, and biological, chemical, nuclear, and radiological events” (p. 1). Directly underneath these two departments are three departments in scientific, injury, and infectious diseases. The scientific section has the Office of Public Health Scientific Service who is connected to three offices that are National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (OSHA), National Center for Health Statistics and the Center for Surveillance, Epidemiology and Laboratory Services. The injury section has the Office of Non-communicable Diseases, injury, and Environmental Health which is connected to four offices: the National Center on Birth Defects and Development Disabilities, the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, the National Center for Environmental Health / Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, and the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. The Office of Infectious Diseases section has four offices that are the Center for Global Health, National Center for Immunization and