About NCDC

• The National Center for Disease Control (NCDC) is under administrative control of the Director General of Health Services, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. 
• NCDC started as a malaria institute in 1909. Later, the institute expanded its focus to other diseases with a larger mandate of controlling emerging and re-emerging diseases.
• The Institute takes a leading role in undertaking investigations of disease outbreaks all over the country employing epidemiological and diagnostic tools.
• The headquarters of NCDC is located in New Delhi.