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A female lab technician holds a vial containing a hepatitis sample.

A 3-year-old boy colors in a book on a couch while a Promoting Positive Parenting Program coach helps his mother fill out a survey.

A CDC scientist holds a test strip of blood samples taken for newborn screenings.

A laboratory researcher holds a vial used to research human hormone measurement.

A little girl happily swings on the playground monkey bars while several other children play in the background.

CDC scientists at work conducting lab tests

CDC EIS officers helping to save lives after the Haiti earthquake

CDC scientist provides malaria testing kit for use after Haiti earthquake

A Biological Lab Technician holds a hepatitis sample at CDC's Viral Hepatitis Lab in Atlanta. The lab processes as many as 9,000 samples a year and can provide same day results to hospitals, labs and clinics all over the country. CDC 24/7: Protecting People. ©David Snyder/CDC Foundation

A Promoting Positive Parenting program family coach works with a young mother on a survey while her 3-year-old son colors in his activity book. The program, led by CDC's Division of Violence Prevention, is helping family coaches incorporate technology-based tools into parenting programs. CDC will analyze results from several parenting programs around the country to determine if using technology like cell phones improves positive parenting results. CDC 24/7: Protecting People. ©David Snyder/CDC Foundation

A clinical scientist with CDC's Newborn Screening and Molecular Biology Branch runs a blood test strip in a lab. Virtually all babies born in the U.S. are tested for an array of treatable, but potentially deadly, conditions within 48 hours of birth through a "heel stick". CDC operates the only comprehensive program in the world for assuring the quality of newborn screening tests and works to develop new tests for additional disorders. Early identification of these disorders gives babies a healthy start and dramatically reduces health care costs associated with treatment of lifelong debilitating conditions. CDC 24/7: Saving Lives. ©David Snyder/CDC Foundation

A senior researcher with CDC's Protein Biomarker Lab is working to improve and standardize hormone measurement in U.S. laboratories. The overall outcome of this project will be sustainable improvements in assessing and managing people's risk for diseases affected by hormones, such as androgen deficiencies and cancer. CDC 24/7: Saving lives. ©David Snyder/CDC Foundation

Hickory Creek Elementary School children play on a playground in McMinnville, Tennessee. The equipment was provided through a CDC -led program that awarded grants to 47 schools to help increase physical activity for students in an effort to combat childhood obesity. The grant program encouraged schools to use CDC's School Health Index: A Self-Assessment and Planning Guide, a user-friendly, science-based, self-assessment tool to help schools assess and improve their health and safety policies and programs in the context of a coordinated school health program. CDC 24/7: Saving Money Through Prevention. ©David Snyder/CDC Foundation

CDC EIS Officer Charbel El Bcheraoui and Surveillance Coordinator Key Tomashek are mobbed by children while conducting an assessment visit to the Aviation camp in Port au Prince, Haiti. The camp housed more than 43,000 people in the weeks after the quake. ©David Snyder/CDC Foundation

CDC microbiologist Michael Humphrys meets with a medical responder on the grounds of the Adventist University Camp in Port au Prince, Haiti. CDC provided malaria rapid test kits to the facility, and the kits were much in demand in the weeks after the January 12 quake. Malaria incidences increased with the coming of the rains. ©David Snyder/CDC Foundation

As CDC microbiologist, A.J. Williams, watches, Soji Oderinde (seated at hood) concentrates on dispensing small volumes of tissue culture isolate into a reaction tube to conduct the PCR test. Photographed by A.J. Williams, Division of Viral Diseases, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Disease, CDC. ©David Snyder/CDC Foundation