CDC's 60th anniversary: director's perspective--David J. Sencer, M.D., M.P.H., 1966-1977.
Change, national and international, was the engine that thrust CDC into its third decade (1966-1975). Starting the decade as the Communicable Disease Center, it ended the decade as the Center for Disease Control as part of the Public Health Service (PHS) under the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW).
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