# Centers for Disease Control and Prevention **Entity class:** United States public-health agency The **Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)** is the federal public-health agency responsible for disease surveillance, outbreak response, prevention guidance, and support to state, local, territorial, tribal, clinical, and laboratory partners. Within the Austin cluster, CDC appears as a sponsor and operational partner of outbreak analytics. [[wiki/Lauren Ancel Meyers|Lauren Ancel Meyers]] and [[wiki/Meyers Lab|Meyers Lab]] have developed decision-support work for CDC, and Meyers has led the CDC-funded [[wiki/epiENGAGE Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics|epiENGAGE Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics]] since 2023. ## Relationships - **funds:** [[wiki/epiENGAGE Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics|epiENGAGE]]. - **research partners:** [[wiki/Lauren Ancel Meyers|Lauren Ancel Meyers]], [[wiki/Meyers Lab|Meyers Lab]], and [[wiki/Center for Pandemic Decision Science|Center for Pandemic Decision Science]]. - **domain:** [[wiki/Public Health Modeling|Public Health Modeling]], [[wiki/Biosurveillance|Biosurveillance]], and [[wiki/Contact Tracing|Contact Tracing]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [About CDC](https://www.cdc.gov/about/cdc/index.html) (accessed 2026-09-23). - [CDC Taps UT for National Disease Outbreak Response Network — College of Natural Sciences](https://cns.utexas.edu/news/announcements/cdc-taps-ut-national-disease-outbreak-response-network) (2023).