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David J. Sencer CDC Museum

CDC Stacks Public Health Publications

The David J. Sencer CDC Museum (CDCM), a Smithsonian Affiliate, is CDC's face to the public, allowing the general public to enter into an engaging experience that illustrates the wealth of CDC's contributions to public health. The CDCM also provides the opportunity to capture and preserve CDC's history, which is largely the history of public health over the past 65 years, fulfilling a unique demand among the many students, visitors, scholars, and researchers who contact CDCM for an understanding of CDC and the role of public health. The CDCM hosts more than 70,000 visitors each year, and more than 350 tours are provided by CDC docents and Museum staff. The CDCM provides educational programs for students and teachers, as well as permanent, temporary, and traveling exhibits that are visitor-centered, science-based, and provide high-impact communication messages. This online collection provides access to select CDCM exhibits for those who may not be able to travel to CDCM in person. For more information, visit https://www.cdc.gov/museum/index.htm.

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  • CDC timeline 1940s 1970s
    CDC timeline 1940s - 1970s
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). David J. Sencer CDC Museum.
    January 11, 2021 | CDC Timeline
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  • CDC timeline 2000s
    CDC timeline 2000s
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). David J. Sencer CDC Museum.
    January 19, 2021 | CDC Timeline
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  • CDC timeline 2020s
    CDC timeline 2020s
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). David J. Sencer CDC Museum.
      January 19, 2021 | CDC Timeline
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  • CDC timeline 2010s
    CDC timeline 2010s
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). David J. Sencer CDC Museum.
    January 19, 2021 | CDC Timeline
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  • CDC timeline 1990s
    CDC timeline 1990s
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). David J. Sencer CDC Museum.
    January 19, 2021 | CDC Timeline
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  • Past CDC directorsadministrators
    Past CDC directors/administrators
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
    January 20, 2021
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  • Teen newsletter March 2021 Teen dating violence
    Teen newsletter: March 2021 – Teen dating violence
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). David J. Sencer CDC Museum.
    March 11, 2021 | Public Health Academy Teen Newsletter
    The David J. Sencer CDC Museum (CDCM) Public Health Academy Teen Newsletter was created to introduce teens to public health topics. Each month will focus on a different public health topic that CDC studies. Newsletter sections are: Introduction, CDC’s Work, The Public Health Approach, Special Feature, Out of the CDC Museum Collection, and Activitie ...
    Supporting Files Public Domain
  • Story of CDC Smallpox eradication
    Story of CDC : Smallpox eradication
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). David J. Sencer CDC Museum.
    March 16, 2021 | Story of CDC
    This section discusses CDC’s early work in studying environmental health. A satirical image from the 1960s about “Lady Liberty” shows the Statue of Liberty wearing a gas mask. The channel behind her and the visible land are filled with trash. The air is dark from pollution. Small factories in the background are belting out more smog. The image show ...
    Supporting Files Public Domain
  • Story of CDC Safe water for all
    Story of CDC : Safe water for all
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). David J. Sencer CDC Museum.
    March 16, 2021 | Story of CDC
    Water is the essence of life and human dignity. Sufficient, safe, physically accessible, and affordable water is vital for all. Despite great strides over the last decades, 1.1 billion people living in rural areas and urban slums still rely on unsafe drinking water from rivers, lakes, and open wells. Children suffer greatly from water-related illne ...
    Supporting Files Public Domain
  • Story of CDC Polio and the Epidemic Intelligence Service EIS
    Story of CDC : Polio and the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS)
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). David J. Sencer CDC Museum.
    March 16, 2021 | Story of CDC
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  • Story of CDC Smoking the most preventable cause of disease
    Story of CDC : Smoking: the most preventable cause of disease
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). David J. Sencer CDC Museum.
    March 16, 2021 | Story of CDC
    This exhibit focuses on CDC’s work in smoking and health. Now readily understood as a major health risk, smoking was not always viewed this way. In 1964, the Public Health Service established the National Clearinghouse for Smoking and Health, the forerunner of CDC’s current Office on Smoking and Health. In the 1980s, smoking became one of the most ...
    Supporting Files Public Domain
  • Story of CDC Making food safer to eat
    Story of CDC : Making food safer to eat
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). David J. Sencer CDC Museum.
    March 16, 2021 | Story of CDC
    Each year, about 1 in 6 people in the U.S. gets sick from eating contaminated food. The 1,000 or more reported outbreaks that happen each year reveal familiar culprits – Salmonella and other common germs. In recent years, large, multistate foodborne outbreaks have become more common because an extensive network of foodborne illness surveillance sys ...
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  • Story of CDC The Roots of public health and CDC
    Story of CDC : The Roots of public health and CDC
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). David J. Sencer CDC Museum.
    March 16, 2021 | Story of CDC
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  • Story of CDC Chronic diseases a 21st century public health challenge
    Story of CDC : Chronic diseases: a 21st century public health challenge
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). David J. Sencer CDC Museum.
    March 16, 2021 | Story of CDC
    Today, chronic diseases such as heart disease and obesity are the leading cause of death and disability in the U.S., and the primary drivers of the nation’s annual health care costs. While progress has been made in gradually decreasing the number of heart attacks and strokes, more work must be done.Since 1900, the causes of death in the United Stat ...
    Supporting Files Public Domain
  • Story of CDC Violence as a public health issue
    Story of CDC : Violence as a public health issue
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). David J. Sencer CDC Museum.
    March 16, 2021 | Story of CDC
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  • Story of CDC Transmission Electron Microscope TEM
    Story of CDC : Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM)
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). David J. Sencer CDC Museum.
    March 16, 2021 | Story of CDC
    On display is a powerful microscope: the electron microscope. This microscope, the TEM 410 Philips model, was made in the Netherlands and used in CDC labs from 1985-2005. This transmission electron microscope was purchased by CDC in 1985 to study the AIDS virus and over the next 20 years, scientists used it repeatedly in the rapid identification of ...
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  • Story of CDC CDC science catalyst for innovation
    Story of CDC : CDC science – catalyst for innovation
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). David J. Sencer CDC Museum.
    March 16, 2021 | Story of CDC
    Since CDC’s beginnings as a scientific agency, innovation has been at its core, with CDC professionals inventing tools, procedures, and strategies to improve their own work and to assist other public health professionals. This portion of the exhibit highlights some of CDC’s most creative accomplishments of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s.
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  • Story of CDC 1976 Swine Flu Vaccination Program
    Story of CDC : 1976 Swine Flu Vaccination Program
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). David J. Sencer CDC Museum.
    March 16, 2021 | Story of CDC
    In addition to the discovery of the Ebola Fever and Legionnaires’ Disease pathogens, another major disease event in 1976 was Swine flu. Earlier that year, the New Jersey State Health Department asked CDC to identify an illness spreading at Fort Dix Army Base. An influenza-like illness affecting over 200 recruits had caused one death. CDC tested thr ...
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  • Story of CDC Disaster response
    Story of CDC : Disaster response
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). David J. Sencer CDC Museum.
    March 16, 2021 | Story of CDC
    This section discusses CDC’s early work in studying environmental health. A satirical image from the 1960s about “Lady Liberty” shows the Statue of Liberty wearing a gas mask. The channel behind her and the visible land are filled with trash. The air is dark from pollution. Small factories in the background are belting out more smog. The image show ...
    Supporting Files Public Domain
  • Story of CDC Environmental health
    Story of CDC : Environmental health
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). David J. Sencer CDC Museum.
    March 16, 2021 | Story of CDC
    This section discusses CDC’s early work in studying environmental health. A satirical image from the 1960s about “Lady Liberty” shows the Statue of Liberty wearing a gas mask. The channel behind her and the visible land are filled with trash. The air is dark from pollution. Small factories in the background are belting out more smog. The image show ...
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