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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).
Purpose
The cooperative agreement promotes the academic medical community's
participation in CDC's efforts to prevent and control disease, injury
and disability. This is accomplished by allowing AAMC member institutions
to participate more fully in the CDC's extramural research activities,
and through "in-house" projects directed by AAMC.
Objectives
- Promote the teaching of prevention and public health in academic
medical centers.
- Promote the training of public health and prevention researchers
within academic medical centers.
- Address the elimination of health disparities.
More about the CDC and its Cooperative
Agreements with AAMC and other organizations
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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)
The
CDC Experience: Applied Epidemiology Fellowship
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