Attention College Students: For a Job Tomorrow, Fill a Need Today. In a time of economic ups and downs, jobs are unstable, and can be hard to find. But needs are everywhere: in business, organizations, and communities. Finding rewarding work will not depend nearly as much on how great your rÃ©sumÃ© looks as it will upon how well you can benefit someone else.
The Communicable Disease Center was founded July 1, 1946, as the successor to the World War II Malaria Control in War Areas program of the Office of National Defense Malaria Control Activities.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1958. The young agency struggled to survive. Emory University gave CDC land on Clifton Road in 1947 to build its headquarters, but construction did not begin for another decade. Two major health crises in the mid-1950s helped CDC establish its credibility.