Press Releases

Today the CDC Foundation announced an important new initiative to prevent falls and fall injuries in older adults. Together, Amgen and the CDC Foundation, with leveraged technical resources from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), will support the project’s development of user-friendly fall prevention resources for older adults and their caregivers.

Spero M. Manson, a leading authority with respect to American Indian and Alaska Native health, received the 2021 Elizabeth Fries Health Education Award.

CDC Foundation’s Contagious Conversations podcast features interview with CDC Director Dr. Rochelle P. Walensky.

Entrepreneur and health advocate Brooks Bell joins CDC Foundation board of directors.

CDC Foundation supports Guinea and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to take on the latest Ebola outbreaks in both nations.

This World Cancer Day, the CDC Foundation announced a multi-year initiative to improve cancer outcomes with a new health empowerment program. Led by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the CDC Foundation, EmPOWERed Health is focused on empowering and equipping individuals to become their own health champions.

CDC Foundation and Georgia Tech’s Center for Inclusive Design and Innovation launch microsite with COVID-19 resources for people with disabilities.

There is a relationship between COVID-19 and cardiovascular disease: deaths from heart disease and stroke have increased during the pandemic. Furthermore, the potential long-term effects of COVID-19 on cardiovascular disease are unknown at this time. Today, the CDC Foundation announced a new coalition to get ahead of this threat with a new campaign to empower more adults to prevent heart disease and strokes. The campaign is supported by the “Alliance for the Million Hearts Campaign,” a newly formed public-private coalition to help fuel the Million Hearts® Initiative toward its goal of preventing one million heart attacks and strokes by 2022. The national campaign will focus on changing the way people think about and embrace managing their heart health helping people understand the importance of heart health, realize their opportunities to be successful and take steps that lower their risks.

For the 14th consecutive year, the CDC Foundation has achieved a 4-star rating by Charity Navigator.

How can everyone have a fair and just opportunity to be as healthy as possible? What was it like to discover hepatitis C and win the Nobel Prize in Medicine? How can we protect ourselves from unsafe injection practices? Listen to season 6 of Contagious Conversations.