Purpose
CDC’s Global Health Strategic Framework is a bridge that connects all of CDC’s global health activities. Learn how we use it to measure progress and impact and guide informed decision-making for global health activities across CDC.
Why it matters
CDC’s Global Health Strategic Framework ensures CDC is tactically developing and maintaining a robust response to existing and emerging global public health needs. At the same time, it builds transparency and accountability, which helps us better support our partners and achieve U.S. Government goals.
How it works
The framework guides how we build, execute, and evaluate our global health work. It is used to measure progress and impact and guide informed decision-making for global health activities across CDC.
Together, the framework’s four global goals and six core capabilities represent the “why” and “how” of CDC’s global work. The framework is also the basis for creating indicators to track progress across the globe.
Goals: Why CDC works globally
Goal 1
Stop health threats at their source before they spread to the United States and other countries
Goal 2
Contain disruptive global disease outbreaks
Goal 3
Use global data for disease prevention and mitigation programs in the United States and other countries
Goal 4
Save lives and improve health globally
Core Capabilities: How we accomplish global work
Data and Surveillance
Ensuring interoperable data and surveillance systems that detect, identify and monitor disease threats and produce high quality, timely data to inform public health action.
Laboratory
Building public health laboratory systems that rapidly and accurately detect, track and inform public health action
Workforce and Institutions
Training and developing a multisectoral health workforce and coordinated essential public health services to prevent, detect, and respond to disease threats and integrate national public health functions
Prevention and Response
Developing systems, tools, and processes that enhance response to public health emergencies, including implementation of prevention and mitigation strategies and countermeasures to prevent transmission and treat diseases
Innovation and Research
Supporting research, implementation science, and public health evaluations to inform best practices for preventing diseases and countering health threats.
Policy, Communications and Diplomacy
Fostering health diplomacy by building relationships that promote the use of evidence-based public health policy, communicate risk, and disseminate prevention messages in response to health threats
Spotlight
"No matter the disease or condition, this collaborative framework will increase CDC's impact as we continue to protect Americans and save lives across the globe."
– Dr. Kayla Laserson, Director, CDC Global Health Center
Results
Implementing the framework allows CDC programs across the agency to:
- Build transparency and accountability
- Reduce siloed work efforts and facilitate leveraging and synergy across our programs
- Inform agency decision-making, strategic planning, and resource allocations
- Enhance reporting and communications
