Federal agency FOIA guide · Department of Health and Human Services
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
For CDC agency records, public-health response, communications, contracts, policy, and scientific-administrative records.
Common request topics
cdcdiseasepublic healthoutbreakvaccine
Where to submit
Mail / email details in FOIAFiler
Email: Not listed in FOIAFiler data; use the official FOIA page.
Mail:
Use the agency’s current official submission instructions.
Related request recipes
Public-health / medical-regulatory records
Choose the HHS component that actually created the records. Search public databases and reading rooms first.
How to make the request easier to process
- Describe the records, not just the question you want answered.
- Use a specific date range when possible.
- Name the office, event, case number, contract number, facility, or other locator if known.
- List useful record types such as emails, reports, memoranda, photographs, logs, contracts, or policy documents.
- For records about yourself, follow the agency’s identity-verification and Privacy Act instructions.
- Ask for reasonably segregable non-exempt portions if responsive records contain exempt material.
Build it
One agency or several?
If this agency is clearly the custodian, build one request. If the records may be split among several components, Request Bundles can generate a separate letter for each selected agency while keeping the core description consistent.