Since starting her work at the Santa Clara County Health Department, contact tracer Karem Valenzuela has seen first-hand how much of an impact her work can have on the community.

With correctional facilities nationwide accounting for more than 80% of the largest COVID-19 outbreaks, the need for guidance was great—particularly in Detroit, one of the big cities where it hit early. Meet the groundbreaking partnership that formed in response.

Vermont has been one of the most successful states in the nation when it comes to dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. That's in no small part due to the team at the Vermont Department of Health, and their quick work in stopping outbreaks in their tracks.

This tight-knit team of ten COVID-19 Corps members didn’t know each other before joining the CDC Foundation initiative—but now they’ve become known in Pennsylvania public-health circles as “The Super Tracers.”

When it comes to effective emergency response, there's no substitute for experience. Meet some of the CDC Foundation's senior advisors who were hired to bring their deep public health backgrounds to provide help wherever they were needed.

Former nurses, recent college grads, workforce returnees and longstanding public health pros—they’re all bringing their varied backgrounds and talents to bear as members of the CDC Foundation's COVID-19 Corps.

For Seattle Fire Chief Scoggins, who oversees a department of more than 1,000, the threat from COVID-19 is a daily concern—especially when it comes to keeping his people protected. So in May 2020, SC Johnson and the CDC Foundation teamed up to help.

Seattle was the first major U.S. city to be hard hit by the coronavirus. So the University of Washington's School of Nursing was faced with a dilemma: how could they find a way to get their students the safe in-clinic training they needed to graduate?