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Diseases Control in the UK 
 
       
 
Prepared by the investigation team 
 
In the UK, the Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre (CDSC) functions as the 
main agency for preventing and controlling infectious diseases.  CDSC conducts 
laboratory research, coordinates control measures, controls surveillance, supports 
national policy and provides expert advise, collaborates with other nations and 
provides public health information collected from the local laboratories affiliated with 
the Special Health Authorities (HPA) to those responsible for controlling infectious 
diseases. 
Services and activities, such as research, human resources development, health 
services that contribute to the prevention and control of infectious diseases by the 
CDSC are listed in Table 2.6. 
 
Health Protection Agency
Modernisation
Agencies
Special Health
Authorities
Strategic Health
Authorities
Health Development Agency
NHS Hospitals
National Institute for
Biological Standards
and Control (NIBSC)
National Institute for
Clinical Excellence
(NICE)
Communicable Disease
Surveillance
　
Centre
(CDSC)
WHO/EURO
Epi info.
Leeds Univ.
 Oxford Univ.
Liverpool
Univ.
London Univ.
Specialized Division
Collaborative
Research
National Health Service (NHS)
NHS Trusts
Research Institutes
Department of Health
Academic
Institutes
Collaborative
Research
Collaborating
Centres
NHS Research &
Development Programmes
Department of Health
Research  Governance
Research
Funding
Epi info.
Research
Request
Centre for Applied
Microbiology &
Research (CAMR)

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