Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is an agency
of the United States Department of Health and Human Services. Based
in Atlanta, Georgia, the CDC's
mission is "to collaborate to create the expertise, information,
and tools that people and communities need to protect their health—through
health promotion, prevention of disease, injury and disability,
and preparedness for new health threats."
The CDC is comprised of numerous Centers, Institutes, and Offices
(CIOs). For a complete outline of the CDC's organizational make-up
and structure, visit http://www.cdc.gov/about/organization.htm.
Cooperative Agreements
A cooperative agreement (CA) is a major mechanism used by the CDC
to facilitate collaborations with important partners to promote
and to protect health.
AAMC's Role
Under the terms of the CA, AAMC is responsible for facilitating
collaborative projects between the CDC CIOs and the organization's
members, and for executing "in-house" projects in collaboration
with CDC. Project ideas may be generated and funded through different
processes:
- A CIO may issue to the AAMC a Request for Applications (RFA)
seeking proposals that address a specific issue of interest to
the CIO.
- A CIO may invite proposals by announcing to the AAMC Potential
Extramural Project Topics (PEPs) of interest.
- The AAMC may seek to interest a CIO in a topic proposed by AAMC
staff.
- The AAMC may seek to interest a CIO in a topic proposed by an
AAMC member institution.
The initial communication is between the CDC and the AAMC. The
RFAs and PEPs that are issued by the CDC are not distributed directly
to AAMC member institutions, but to the AAMC. Similarly, member
institutions that wish to propose topics of interest should not
communicate directly with CDC, but communicate their interest to
the AAMC.
Other Cooperative Agreements
The CDC also has cooperative agreements with the Association
of Schools of Public Health (ASPH) and with the Association
for Prevention Teaching and Research (APTR),* dating back to
1981 and 1985, respectively. To date, each of these cooperative
agreements has resulted in more than $10 million of funded research
conducted by the partnering association or its members.
*Formerly the Association of Teachers of Preventive
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"The CDC has an important responsibility to contribute to
increasing partnerships between medicine and public health. Partnerships
with the AAMC to help achieve this goal are both natural and strategic."
—Former CDC Director, Jeffrey P. Koplan, M.D., M.P.H.
Related Resources
The
AAMC and the CDC as Strategic Partners: Why? And Why Now?—Academic
Medicine, May 2000
Academic
Medicine, April 2008 Issue on Population Health Education
Regional
Medicine-Public Health Education Centers (RMPHEC and RMPHEC-GME)
Web sites
Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC)
Association for
Prevention Teaching and Research (APTR)
Association of Schools
of Public Health (ASPH)
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