Research Australia is pleased to have the opportunity to reiterate its support for the
introduction of an Australian Centre for Disease Control (CDC) through this submission to the Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee.
Research Australia believes that the CDC could play an integral infrastructure and
enabling role in the health as well as the research, development and innovation
ecosystem. With its extensive data gathering and analysis capabilities and its responsibility for assessing and mediating the risks of future health emergencies, the CDC will be ideally placed to undertake the function of coordinating the application of research to the prevention and control of disease, both communicable and non-communicable.
Read our submission here.
