To determine whether inhibitor testing can be more efficiently, cost-effectively, and accurately executed.

To optimize surveillance and measurement of early child health by adding questions on diet, feeding practices, screen-time, and/or activity to the National Survey of Children’s Health, and assessing the availability of training products or tools for early care and education or home visiting settings on appropriate measurement of key child behaviors and healthy growth.

To improve cancer outcomes by educating and empowering people to become proactive participants in their own health and improve patient:physician conversations and shared decision making.

To understand the relationship between assisted reproductive technology (ART) and risk of autism and other development disorders.

To implement a three-pillar strategy of pre- and post-measurements to complement existing surveillance activities and assess e-cigarette policy impact. The proposed pillars are: 1) adding more nuanced, key indicators to state-based youth surveillance systems; 2) accessing real-time data on retail sales of e-cigarettes; and 3) leveraging longitudinal web-based surveys.

To design and implement a high quality comprehensive nationally representative micronutrient status household survey in Burkina Faso.

To demonstrate the effectiveness and scalability of using the secondary school platform to deliver iron and folic acid to improve the nutrition and health status of adolescents in selected districts of Bangladesh.

To augment the evidence in CDC's Health Impact in 5 Years (HI-5) initiative to enable public health practitioners and other stakeholders to put HI-5 into action. The CDC Foundation will work with a consortium of stakeholders to synthesize, translate and disseminate lessons learned from states and communities that have enacted and implemented policies related to three social and economic interventions featured in HI-5; identify resources and supports needed for additional states and communities to advance these interventions through policy strategies; and highlight research gaps related to these interventions.

To evaluate proof of concept of a new imaging technology to assess recumbent length and height of children 6-59 months as part of large-scale nutritional status assessment surveys or surveillance systems.

To facilitate collaborative development of a newborn bloodspot screening test to detect the genetic lesions that cause spinal muscular atrophy. The test will be designed to use in public health newborn screening laboratories.