In August, families in Stephens County, GA gathered in the town of Toccoa to light candles and release balloons in memory of loved ones lost to overdose.

In 1960, researchers began work synthesizing a compound that blocked opioids without potentially harmful effects of its own. Today, naloxone has saved tens of thousands of lives.

In Uganda, improved mortality data collection, civil registration and vital statistics systems lead the government to upgrade existing neonatal care units and establish new neonatal care units across the country.

Robert James (RJ) Simonds, MD, EIS ’90, has had a career fueled by curiosity, and when that is your driving force, everything is an opportunity.

In 1940, a pair of scientists tried to save the life of a London constable suffering an infection. Though the effort failed, the substance they used—Penicillium notatum—would revolutionize medicine.

Imagine you’re looking for answers to a riddle and are given a stack of 2,000 papers. Somewhere in those pages is a pattern that not only answers today’s riddle, but provides answers to future ones, as well.

Health officials in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) continue to fight an Ebola outbreak that was first spotted in May, posing a significant health threat across five eastern provinces in Africa’s second largest country as well as throughout the region.

When Tropical Storm Helene devastated parts of western North Carolina in September 2024, the CDC Foundation as able to quickly help fill a critical position for the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services through Workforce Services.