Morale at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is up for the first time in many years, according to a new agency-wide survey reported on by Alison Young of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.  Five years ago, the agency launched a reorganization to improve the agency’s work with the public, coordination of public health projects with individual states, and what CDC director Julie Gerberding called "the first agency-wide research agenda in the history of CDC." 

Recently CDC has been in the news more for missteps than for morale improvement, but the recent survey shows that more CDC staffers see the connection between their daily work and the agency’s overall mission, and 87 percent think the work they do is important.  Young writes that "the agency’s ability to protect the public was . . . harmed by the chaos" that emerged following the reorganization, and five former CDC directors sent a letter of concern to Gerberding.  Now it looks, at least as far as the CDC’s internal health, like the agency is on a better trajectory.  Read Young here.  EH

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