Since 2002, CDC has distributed more than $5 billion of federal funding to improve public health preparedness and response. In its report, “Public Health Preparedness: Mobilizing State by State,” CDC ...

The Standing Committee for CDC Center for Preparedness and Response (SCPR), sponsored by CDC, provides a forum for discussion of scientific, technical, and social issues relevant to public health ...

WASHINGTON -- More than five years after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the government cannot show how the $5 billion given to public health departments has better prepared the country for a ...

The C.D.C. delivered $750 million annually to state and local health departments for emergency work. The program was eliminated in the Trump administration’s budget blueprint. By Apoorva Mandavilli St ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released a list of documents to help hospitals and healthcare facilities to incorporate the law into their emergency and disaster preparedness plans.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Dr. Richard Besser, who heads disaster and pandemic preparedness for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, was named on Thursday as acting director of the agency.