Partners: Corporations

Pfizer, Inc.

 
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Organ Transplant Infection Prevention Project

To perform a study and create a repository of specimens that will help clinicians better prevent and treat infections among transplant patients.

  • Funding Partners: Merck & Company; Gilead Sciences, Inc.; Pfizer, Inc.
  • Program Partners: National Center for Preparedness Detection and Control of Infectious Diseases, CDC

 

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National Initiative to Address MRSA

To launch a national educational initiative focused on community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylocuccus aureus (MRSA) and to improve the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of MRSA infections in healthcare settings.

  • Funding Partners: Pfizer, Inc.
  • Program Partners: National Center for Preparedness, Detection and Control of Infectious Diseases, CDC
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The CDC Experience: A Fellowship for Medical Students in Applied Epidemiology

To provide medical students with an applied hands-on training experience in epidemiology and public health. Eight competitively selected third- and fourth-year medical students from around the country will spend up to one full year at CDC.

  • Funding Partners: The Pfizer Foundation, Pfizer Inc.
  • Program Partners: Office of Workforce and Career Development, CDC
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Get Smart: Know When Antibiotics Work Campaign

To provide resources to support CDC’s national campaign to promote discriminating use of antimicrobial agents. The campaign seeks to change behavior that leads to overuse of antimicrobial agents in adult and pediatric patients.

  • Funding Partners: Abbott Laboratories; Advanstar Communications, Inc.; Aventis Pharmaceuticals; Bayer AG; Daiichi Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd.; GlaxoSmithKline; Pfizer Inc.
  • Program Partners: Multiple state partners; National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, CDC
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Estimation of Prevalence of Erectile Dysfunction in the U.S.

To estimate the prevalence of erectile dysfunction in the U.S. The study will be conducted as part of CDC’s National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey and will identify the occurrence and severity of self-reported erectile dysfunction among U.S. males 40 and older.

  • Funding Partners: Pfizer, Inc.
  • Program Partners: National Foundation for Sexual Health Medicine, Inc.; National Center for Health Statistics, CDC

(This program is no longer active.)