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.
It became the National Communicable Disease Center (NCDC) effective July 1, 1967. The organization was renamed the Center for Disease Control (CDC) on June 24, 1970, and Centers for Disease Control effective October 14, 1980. An act of the United States Congress appended the words and Prevention to the name effective October 27, 1992. However, Congress directed that the initialism CDC be retained because of its name recognition.