CDC Foundation - History and Milestones

Decade One

History and Milestones

2000: The Foundation receives funding from the California Endowment to support two programs in California that are part of REACH 2010, a national CDC effort to reduce ethnic and racial disparities in health.; The Foundation commits to support CDC’s “12-step program” to help prevent the emergence and spread of antimicrobial resistant infections among patients in health care settings. The program today is know as “Get Smart: Know When to Use Antibiotics” and is supported by more than 10 corporations and foundations.
2001: The CDC Foundation announces a $2 million Emergency Preparedness and Response Fund to give CDC a flexible, immediate resource during a national crisis.
2002: The Nuclear Threat Initiative announces a partnership with the CDC Foundation to help CDC fund a two-year India Field Epidemiology Training Program.; A $4.1 million gift from the Avon Foundation enables the CDC Foundation to implement mobile mammography screening programs for underserved women.

2003: The world-class CDC Marcus Emergency Operations Center opens ahead of schedule to battle health threats like SARS and West Nile virus.; The CDC Experience, a groundbreaking program made possible by a partnership between the Foundation, Pfizer and the Pfizer Foundation, becomes the first-ever program to provide medical students with hands-on training at CDC.; A $1 million grant to the Foundation from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation funds two critical CDC programs to improve maternal and child health care in war-torn Afghanistan: lack of maternal and newborn care, and a short supply of safe drinking water.
2004: The CDC Foundation launches the Institute of Public Health Law to expand the use of law as a tool in public health.; More than 10 executives from national and global corporations respond to the CDC Foundation’s invitation to convene to discuss the role of businesses in global public health.
2005: CDC Foundation partners give $3.5 million to support CDC’s Optimal Nutrition and Long-Term Health program to study the health effects of nutritional supplementation.