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Allen Cheng, Professor of Infectious Diseases, Monash University

Australia will soon have its own ‘centre for disease control’. Let’s not repeat the chaos of the US

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Australia is a step closer to having its own national agency to inform and co-ordinate public health responses – a permanent Australian Centre for Disease Control (CDC).

Long-awaited draft legislation was tabled in parliament last week to create this permanent CDC, which is set to start from January 1 2026.

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