From the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, tribal communities were among the most vulnerable. To address their needs, the CDC Foundation partnered with the Afya Foundation—though COVID forced a rapid rethinking of their usual approach.

Dr. Judy Monroe is not just the CDC Foundation’s president and CEO. She’s also a committed donor, allowing her to further give back to the field of public health. But both her career and her role as a donor had to grow over time from much humbler beginnings.

Having been supported by a truly multidisciplinary group of educators and coworkers throughout her journey in public health, Dr. Marguerite Pappaioanou is now giving back in a way that will guide the journeys of the public health champions to come.

While the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted people of all ages, older adults have been particularly affected. For many, the challenges of finding and navigating resources can be overwhelming.

In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, contact tracing was all over the news. Now, though the term is heard less frequently, contact tracers remain a vital part of the emergency response, even as job titles and functions evolve.

With more than 3,000 homes in rural Alaska lacking piped water systems, sanitation remains a serious challenge in many remote communities. So CDC, the CDC Foundation and the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium (ANTHC) coordinated to help solve the problem.

Nowhere in Vietnam has the impact of COVID-19 on TB been felt more than in Ho Chi Minh City—which is not only the epicenter of TB infections in Vietnam, but also the location of over half of the country’s total COVID-19 cases and more than 75% of the deaths thus far.

Travel epidemiologist Karuna Mary Bollam plays an unusual role in the COVID-19 Corps: she works closely with CDC’s Division of Global Migration and Quarantine to make sure those who are under isolation for coronavirus don’t leave the state of Oregon by air or sea.