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Welcoming a New Face to Advance Public-Private Partnerships to Benefit Public Health
Welcoming a New Face to Advance Public-Private Partnerships to Benefit Public Health

Betty Wolf this month joined the CDC Foundation as our new vice president for Advancement. Betty brings significant biomedical research, healthcare and programmatic fundraising experience to the CDC Foundation team, and we are pleased to welcome her aboard. 

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mHealth Kenya: To Save A Life, Dial *652#
mHealth Kenya: To Save A Life, Dial *652#

Dial *652#  —  That’s what it takes to potentially save a life in Kenya. I learned that from Dr. Cathy Mwangi, head of the CDC Foundation’s Mobile Post Exposure Prophylaxis (mPEP) initiative, launched in Kenya in 2013.

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Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library Dedication
Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library Dedication

The newly-named Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library was dedicated on July 11th, honoring the life and legacy of Dr. Stephen B. Thacker.

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A nurse and a doctor at the Mongkul Borey Provincial Hospital look on as patient weighs her baby.

A young girl visiting the Angkor Wat temple complex near Siem Riep, Cambodia. © David Snyder/CDC Foundation

Culture samples in the National Public Health Lab in Port-au-Prince, the most advanced lab in Haiti. The CDC's Surveillance and Response Team was based at the lab in the weeks after the January 12 earthquake, where they helped to set up a surveillance system for infectious diseases in the many camps that surrounded the city after the quake.

The Promoting Positive Parenting Program, supported by the CDC Foundation, uses cell phones to reinforce the lessons learned during weekly meetings.

CDC Foundation Fellows Christopher Shacklady and Julianne Botelho work on the Solvay hormone project at the Protein Biomarker Lab at CDC.

Children play on a small patch of grass in the community of Mikocheni in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania's capital city. Through the Phones for Health program, supported by the CDC Foundation, CDC is working to streamline Tanzania's health care reporting system so that local healthcare workers in both the public and private sectors can use text messaging and Interactive Voice Response (IVR) to report health trends at the local level to district level supervisors. © David Snyder/CDC Foundation