The National Center for Disease Control (NCDC) was founded in 1996 on the basis of Georgian center for plague control that was supervised by the Ministry of Health in former USSR.
The main office of NCDC is located in Tbilisi, besides, it has branch in Batumi.
The staff of NCDC is 200 persons, and 20 – in Batumi branch. About half of the staff is specialists with university education, and 28 of them have scientific degree (candidates and doctors of sciences).
NCDC Structure:
Office of the Director - ncdc @ ncdc.ge; Surveillance and Analysis - stat @ ncdc.ge; Information Resources and Epidemiological Bulletin - lrc @ ncdc.ge ; Hospital Infections; Training Center – tc @ ncdc.ge ; Biosafety and Threat Reduction - threatred @ ncdc.ge ; Immunization and Logistics - immun @ ncdc.ge ; Field Epidemiology; Surveillance of Vaccine preventable Diseases - episurv @ ncdc.ge ; Health Promotion and Epidemiology of Chronic Diseases – prevent @ ncdc.ge; Parasitic Diseases –malaria @ ncdc.ge ; Medical Entomology and Zoology;
Laboratories: Plague; Respiratory Diseases; Zoonoses and Anaerobic Diseases; Cholera and Diarrhoeal Diseases - tsana @ ncdc.ge; Poliomyelitis and other Enteroviruses - Poliolab @ ncdc.ge; Viral and Rickettsial Diseases; Molecular Epidemiology – molbio @ ncdc.ge; Cell Culture; Library of Live microorganisms; Media Preparation and Sterilization; Animal Facilities; Main Storehouse of Vaccines;
Main activities:
NCDC is involved in implementation of several State Programs, among them: Surveillance, Control and Prevention of Quarantine, Particularly Dangerous and other Infectious Diseases; Malaria Control and Prevention; Immunization; Healthy Lifestyle and Prevention of Chronic Diseases.
Research - investigation of special and other pathogens; investigation of natural foci, possibilities of phage prophylaxis.
Partners:
WHO - Diphtheria Control, Poliomyelitis Eradication, Malaria Control, Surveillance;
USAID, UNICEF— Immunization, Health Information systems
USAID, American International Health Alliance - Infection Control, Health Promotion
Fogarty Foundation – “Emerging Infectious Diseases”
University of Maryland— Molecular Epidemiology
DHHS - BTEP (Biotechnology Engagement Program)- ISTC: Amebiasis, Antibiotic resistance, Tuberculosis, Botulism, Hepatitis C
USAID, “Save the Children” - Nutrition and Anthropometry
NCDC has relations with CDC, Atlanta, USA. Joint investigations were carried out in 1998 and 1999 on amebiasis outbreak in Tbilisi, in 1999-2000 Reproductive Health Survey was implemented.
NCDC collaborates with many other institutions around of world.