Attention College Students: For a Job Tomorrow, Fill a Need Today. In a time of economic ups and downs, jobs are unstable, and can be hard to find. But needs are everywhere: in business, organizations, and communities. Finding rewarding work will not depend nearly as much on how great your rÃ©sumÃ© looks as it will upon how well you can benefit someone else.
The Communicable Disease Center was founded July 1, 1946, as the successor to the World War II Malaria Control in War Areas program of the Office of National Defense Malaria Control Activities.
CDC and Malaria (1946-present) CDC's mission to combat malaria began at its inception on July 1, 1946. The Communicable Disease Center, as CDC was first known, stemmed from MCWA. Thus, much of the early work done by CDC was concentrated on the control and elimination of malaria in the United States.