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On October 1, 2000, the Association
of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) signed a Cooperative
Agreement with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC). The purpose of the cooperative agreement is to enhance
the involvement of the academic medicine community in programmatic
issues of interest to the CDC by allowing AAMC member institutions
to participate more fully in the CDC's extramural research
activities. Some of the collaborative activities include:
- Promoting the teaching of prevention and public health
in academic medical centers.
- Promoting the training of public health and prevention
researchers within academic medical centers.
- Increasing the number of underrepresented minority students
in medical schools.
- Activities to eliminate health disparities.
In addition to the AAMC, the CDC have separate Cooperative
Agreements with the Association of Schools of Public Health
(ASPH - 1981) and with the Association of Teachers of Preventive
Medicine (ATPM - 1985). In the past year, each of these Cooperative
Agreements have resulted in more than $10 million of funded
research being conducted by the partnering association or
its members. Dr. Jordan J. Cohen, AAMC President, provides
a detailed explanation of the cooperative
agreement, its purpose and how it will be implemented
in his memo to the Council of Deans.
The Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC) is an agency of the Department of
Health and Human Services. Located in Atlanta, Georgia, the
CDC serves as the national focus for developing and applying
disease prevention and control, environmental health and health
promotions, and education activities designed to improve the
health of the people of the United States. Made up of 12 Centers,
Institutes and Offices (CIOs), the CDC's mission is to
promote health and quality of life by preventing and controlling
disease, injury and disability. CDC seeks to accomplish its
mission by working with partners throughout the nation and
world to monitor health, detect and investigate health problems,
conduct research to enhance prevention, develop and advocate
sound public health policies, implement prevention strategies,
promote healthy behaviors, foster safe and healthful environments
and provide leadership training.
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About the CDC
"The
AAMC and the CDC as Strategic Partners: Why? and Why Now?"
(2000, 75:406-407)
From the journal Academic Medicine
"As the director of the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC), I feel strongly that the CDC has an
important responsibility to contribute to increasing partnerships
between medicine and public health. Partnerships with the
Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) to help achieve
this goal are both natural and strategic." Jeffrey
P. Koplan, M.D., M.P.H.
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