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NHL and CDC Foundations Team Up with Pittsburgh Organization to Support Latino Families

What if English was your second language, and the COVID information you’re relying on to keep your loved ones safe was hard to find and poorly translated? It's one of the challenges the Latino Community Center, the NHL Foundation and the CDC Foundation teamed up to solve.

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Community Resiliency at Core of Bahamas' Hurricane Dorian Recovery Efforts

In 2019, Hurricane Dorian made landfall and was the strongest hurricane to hit the Northern Bahamas in modern records. The storm caused loss of life and devastated many parts of the island including roads, homes and medical clinics.

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Living History: How an Emergency COVID-19 Workforce Was Born

The Foundation has tackled the opioid crisis, tobacco use, hurricane relief, Ebola, Zika and other health challenges around the globe. But nothing compares to the scope and scale of the needs from the COVID-19 response. Enter a new emergency workforce: the COVID-19 Corps.

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COVID-19 Corps Communicators: Speaking the Same Language

From Alaska to the Great Plains to Puerto Rico, COVID-19 Corps communications specialists are finding creative ways to keep their diverse communities, no matter their native language, up to date on the latest coronavirus news and health department recommendations.

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Protecting Brazil’s Healthcare Workers from A Dangerous COVID Variant

Around the world, coronavirus variants continue to complicate the fight against COVID. To help protect Brazil’s frontline healthcare workers from the P.1 variant, the CDC Foundation is funding a research project to gather data on infection rates among hospital workers.

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The Fab Five supporting Navajo Nation’s COVID-19 response

Five of the CDC Foundation's public health pros are playing a major supporting role in the Navajo Nation’s model efforts to mitigate COVID-19 and get the tribe vaccinated. Meet Nicole, Larissa, Nicholas, Tori and Uly, and learn about the incredible response efforts that have taken place and the work that still needs to be done.

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CDC Foundation's Death-Certificate Detectives Investigate Data Gaps

When the COVID-19 pandemic reinforced the importance of standardized data to the public health system, surprising gaps started appearing in death certificate data. That's when these two recent grads began working directly with funeral directors to crack the case.

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Caring for the Homeless: Providing Access to Sanitation Stations During COVID-19

A year into the COVID-19 pandemic, handwashing remains a key mitigation strategy to prevent the spread of the virus...but access to clean water, effective handwashing supplies and restrooms can be challenging for people experiencing homelessness.