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CDC Museum Tour Highlights Its Heritage and Accomplishments

Posted on Monday, January 21, 2019

In late October, twenty-eight ARCS members enjoyed a guided tour of The David J. Sencer CDC Museum.  The museum’s mission is to educate visitors about the value of prevention–based public health, while collecting, preserving, and presenting the CDC’s rich heritage and vast accomplishments.  Our guide was the former Communications Director who shared many antidotes from her tenure which made the tour even more interesting and interactive.

The ARCS Atlanta group was one of the first to see the new exhibit, By the People:  Designing a Better America.  This exhibition focuses on humanitarian design solutions in the modern world, examining how design is addressing social, health, economic and environmental challenges faced by communities through the United States.

Beginning in 1946 with its inception, examples of the CDC’s stellar history include

  • Controlling malaria, typhus, polio, and cholera epidemics
  • Approaching the eradication of smallpox
  • Closing in on the possible eradication of polio
  • Combating malarial transmission in the United States, as well as MERS and Enterovirus-D68 outbreaks
  • Managing antibiotic-resistant infections, birth defects, and a number of chronic diseases

CDC’s critical research allows us to address these threats, while providing health information that protects our nation and the world against disease. 

Thanks to Robin King for arranging this interesting guided tour.