Overview

Biorisk Management

A national biorisk management is designated to prevent diseases among personnel and to protect the community from harm by preventing the release of infectious pathogens.

Blood Safety Management

The Division of Human Blood Safety Surveillance contributes to the blood donor protection and blood safety management by conducting the research for blood management and transfusion safety policies, inspection on bood establishments, and investigation of adverse effects of transfusion and transfusion-transmitted infections.

Chronic Disease Management Research & Development

Chronic disease management research & development has commenced to develop disease prevention and management technologies in preparation for an aging population. The purpose of the research & development activities is to manage dementia, respiratory allergic diseases, and chronic diseases such as cardio-cerebrovascular diseases, diabetes, and chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases.

Chronic Infectious Disease Cohort Study

The chronic infectious disease cohort study was established and conducted for several chronic infectious diseases including HIV, hepatitis and HPV infection to reduce disease burden and understand natural history and to shape translational research.

Emergency Operations Center: EOC

The Emergency Operations Center (EOC) performs 24/7 a number of activities to respond to public health crises that could arise from the importation and spread of emerging infectious diseases including acquisition and dissemination of information on the situation and rapid responses. The EOC also investigates and monitors unusual events related to infectious diseases that occur domestically and int

Infectious Diseases Newsletter for Physicians

KCDC’s Information sharing with physicians on domestic or international infectious disease outbreaks

Korea Biobank Project(KBP)

「Korea Biobank Project」 is a biobank project that supports Korea’s healthcare R&D by collecting, managing, and distributing human bioresources which will be used as valuable research materials for future health and medical care.

Korean Chip Project

The Korean Chip Project is a genome-based chronic disease study project aimed at identifying the genetic causes of common chronic diseases of Korean people. We develop Korean chip for genomic analysis, and produce and analyze Korean genome information based on large-scale cohorts.

Laboratory surveillance service for influenza and respiratory viruses

By detecting the prevalence of infectious respiratory diseases and establishing the causes of acute respiratory infections and analyzing the trends of the properties of circulating viruses, we provide useful information required for the treatment and prevention of the diseases to the public and infectious disease specialists.

Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS)

「Management and Response for MERS infection」 is to identify early detection of suspected MERS infection and manage it to prevent transmission in communities and hospitals.

Management of Organ and Tissue Donation Registration

Donation registration is a declaration of organ donation at the time of death without any profit. This campaign, in accordance with the organ transplant laws article 15 “Registration of Organ Donation” and article 7-2 “Registration of Organ Donor,” provides services for registration of organ donation at our agencies.

National TB Elimination Project

With the vision of “TB Free Society, Healthy Country” based on the Tuberculosis Prevention Act (enacted in 1967 and took effect in 1968), the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention established the TB monitoring system in 2000 and has been conducting the PPM (Public-Private Mix) TB control project since 2007 in order to reduce incidence rates to levels of advanced countries through system

National Culture Collection for Pathogens (NCCP)

The National Culture Collection for Pathogens (NCCP) establishes as the national pathogen resources bank in order to the promotion of R&D in in preparedness, diagnosis and therapy of infectious human disease.

National Immunization Program for children

National Immunization Program for children is a project to provide immunization services for infectious diseases at no cost to the nearest clinics. National immunization program for children supports the total cost of 16 vaccinations.

Organ transplant management department

We support and manage organ donation by donating brain death donors, and conduct fair and appropriate long term distribution process to select recipients.

Program for Prevention and Management for a Cardio-cerebrovascular Disease

For people with hypertension and diabetes, Korea CDC provides community-based programs which improve patients self-management skills to prevent their cardio-cerebrovascular disease that has a huge socioeconomic burden.

Regional vector surveillance centers against climate change

It is a project to provide surveillance information through monitoring real-time information on infectious disease vectors and vector-borne diseases due to climate change and environmental changes.

Smart quarantine information system project

Korea Centers for Disease Control established a quarantine system in Korea which utilized the computerized information system called Smart Quarantine System to improve the traditional quarantine system focused on the fever monitoring system.

The National Center For Stem Cell And Regenerative Medicine

We are supporting stem cell researchers and clinicians working in academia, industry, hospitals to overcome the hurdles they presently face!