Mission

To assess health issues risks and outcomes through data collection, surveillance, analysis and evaluation to prevent disease and injury in the District of Columbia.

Core Functions

• Surveillance and investigations to prevent/control communicable and chronic disease.
• Surveillance and intervention to reduce the incidence and prevalence of injury, and adverse health outcomes.
• Epidemiological analyses to set priorities for prevention and planning.
• Information dissemination to residents, public and private agencies, and community-based organizations on District health concerns.

Five Divisions

• Cancer Registry
• Division of Disease Surveillance and Investigation
  • Foodborne Disease Surveillance Investigation
  • Bio-terrorism Surveillance Program
• Division of Disability Surveillance and Intervention
  • Project 730
  • DC Linkage and Tracking 0 Birth to 8
  • Add from CD
• Division of Injury Surveillance Prevention
  • Traumatic Brain Injury
• Division of DC Behavioral Risk Factor