COCA Partners
COCA collaborates with national clinician organizations across the US to communicate information about disease outbreaks, disasters, terrorism events, and other health threats. These COCA Partner Organizations serve a wide variety of healthcare professionals including: physicians, nurses, physician assistants, pharmacists, veterinarians, first responders, and public health practitioners. Through COCA partnerships, CDC is able to rapidly distribute information to clinicians during a public health emergency.
Organizations interested in becoming a COCA Partner should contact coca@cdc.gov.

COCA is pleased to feature the American Association of Medical Society Executives (AAMSE) in our January COCA Partner Spotlight!
AAMSE is the professional association of more than 1,300 medical society executives and staff specialists. Through its more than 300 member organizations, AAMSE advances the profession of medicine through education, communication of knowledge, leadership development, and collaboration.
Member organizations include county, regional, state, state specialty, national, national specialty, and international medical societies, as well as affiliated health care organizations and industry partners.
AAMSE is committed to educating and supporting medical society professionals to advance the profession of medical society management, medical societies, and the physicians they serve.
AAMSE’s vision is to be the foremost resource for America’s medical society professionals in achieving excellence in medical society management.
To learn more about AAMSE, visit their website and like them on Facebook.
Partnerships with professional associations are vital to CDC’s ability to share information with clinicians about public health emergencies, CDC guidance, health alert messages, and training opportunities.
List of Organizations
- American Academy of Ambulatory Care Nursing (AAACN)external icon
- American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM)external icon
- American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)external icon
- American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)external icon
- American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA)external icon
- American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN)external icon
- American Association of Medical Society Executives (AAMSE)external icon
- American Association of Occupational Health Nurses (AAOHN)external icon
- American Association of Poison Control Centers (AAPCC)external icon
- American Association of Service Coordinators (AASC)external icon
- American Association of Tissue Banks (AATB)external icon
- American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP)external icon
- American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM)external icon
- American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologist (ACOG)external icon
- American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM)external icon
- American College of Preventive Medicine (ACPM)external icon
- American College of Surgeons (ACS)external icon
- American College of Veterinary Preventive Medicine (ACVPM)external icon
- American Dental Association (ADA)external icon
- American Health Care Association/National Center for Assisted Living (AHCA/NCAL)external icon
- American Hospital Association (AHA)external icon
- American Lung Association (ALA)external icon
- American Medical Association (AMA)external icon
- American Medical Group Association (AMGA)external icon
- American Medical Women’s Association (AMWA)external icon
- American Nephrology Nurses’ Association (ANNA)external icon
- American Nurses Association (ANA)external icon
- American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE)external icon
- American Pharmacists Association (APhA)external icon
- American Public Health Association (APHA)external icon
- American Red Cross (Red Cross)external icon
- American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP)external icon
- American Society of Consultant Pharmacists (ASCP)external icon
- American Society of Health System Pharmacists (ASHP)external icon
- American Society for Microbiology (ASM)external icon
- American Society for Transplant Surgeons (ASTS)external icon
- American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH)external icon
- American Travel Health Nurses Association (ATHNA)external icon
- American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA)external icon
- America’s Blood Centers (ABC)external icon
- Association for Prevention Teaching and Research (APTR)external icon
- Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC)external icon
- Association of Academic Health Centers (AAHC)external icon
- Association of American Indian Physicians (AAIP)external icon
- Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC)external icon
- Association of Community Health Nursing Educatorsexternal icon
- Association of Occupational and Environmental Clinics (AOEC)external icon
- Association of Occupational Health Professionals in Healthcare (AOHP)external icon
- Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL)external icon
- Association of Public Health Nurses (APHN)external icon
- Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH)external icon
- National AHEC Organization (NAO)external icon
- National Alliance for Hispanic Health (NAHH)
- National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO)external icon
- National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS)external icon
- National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC)external icon
- National Association of Directors of Nursing Administration in Long Term Care (NADONA/LTC)external icon
- National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians (NAEMT)external icon
- National Association of EMS Educators (NAEMSE)external icon
- National Association of EMS Physicians (NAEMSP)external icon
- National Association of Hispanic Nurses (NAHN)external icon
- National Association of Local Boards of Health (NALBOH)external icon
- National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women’s Health (NANPWH)external icon
- National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (NAPNAP)external icon
- National Association of School Nurses (NASN)external icon
- National Association of State 9-1-1 Administrators (NASNA)external icon
- National Association of State EMS Officials (NASEMSO)external icon
- National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA)external icon
- National Council of Asian Pacific Islander Physicians (NCAPIP)external icon
- National Disaster Medical System (NDMS)external icon
- National Emergency Number Association (NENA)external icon
- National EMS Management Association (NEMSMA)external icon
- National Environmental Health Association (NEHA)external icon
- National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Office of EMS (OEMS)external icon
- National Hispanic Medical Association (NHMA)external icon
- National Medical Association (NMA)external icon
- National Network of Public Health Institutes (NNPHI)external icon
- National Organization State Offices Rural Health (NOSORH)external icon
- National Public Health Information Coalition (NPHIC)external icon
- National Registry of EMT’s (NREMT)external icon
- National Rural Health Association (NRHA)external icon
- National Volunteer Fire Council (NVFC)external icon
- Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE)external icon
- Society of Emergency Medicine Physician Assistants (SEMPA)external icon
- Society of Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA)external icon
- Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM)external icon
- Society of Urologic Nurses and Associates (SUNA)external icon