To work with local, state and national partners and develop a set of recommendations in the form of a roadmap on how to optimize the interface between public health and community-based organizations (CBOs) to best prepare future responses to public health emergencies and effectively promote broader community health objectives, including achieving health equity and overall community health and wellbeing.
To build capacity and provide field support for maternal-infant health (MIH) efforts by enhancing training and technical assistance resources that support organizations such as perinatal quality collaboratives (PQCs) to improve quality care.
To help CDC provide reference and quality control materials for laboratory collaboration, including collaborations for the Hormone Measurement Standardization program.
To serve as an applied learning hub for community-based organizations (CBO), public health departments, funders and others to co-create the systems-level changes needed to get to the root causes of health inequities. Phase 1 will focus on community driven capacity building of all public health ecosystem actors.
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 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 develop questions on out-of-school children as part of the Inclusive Education Module for the UNICEF Multiple Indicators Cluster Surveys and share the methodological insights from the study at conferences and workshops.
To build the capacity of a state to conduct longitudinal data collected for sickle cell disease to inform better care and treatment practices for sickle cell disease patients and providers.
To identify high-impact language, concepts, and narratives that will inform how public health can communicate hypertension control messaging to private sector employers, their workforce, and related beneficiaries.
To address the root causes of poor health through the rigorous adoption of evidence-based policies by expanding the CityHealth policy menu and footprint.
To provide integrated stewardship, governance and communication in order to transform and modernize public health data systems to better prevent, detect and respond to public health threats and promote equitable community wellbeing.
The goal of the Improving Engagement in Community Level Data Collection program is to improve the nation's access to community-relevant and nationally significant data that measure health and equity.
To accelerate innovation and extend impact on community-based actions emphasizing cardiovascular conditions and other leading causes of maternal mortality.
To collaborate with the Healthy People Initiative (a science-based, 10-year national objective for improving the health of Americans) to demonstrate the value of legal and policy interventions in improving Americans’ health.
To help CDC increase understanding of the effectiveness of using maternal tenofovir containing combination drug during the second and third trimesters of pregnancy for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV and HBV in co-infected mothers.
To convene a statewide meeting bringing together non-profits, advocacy organizations, policymakers and funders in Georgia with the goal of developing an action plan to eliminate hunger and address food and nutrition insecurity.
To provide a health communication campaign related to heart disease education and prevention in the United States with the goal of informing Americans ages 35-64 on the risk factors of heart disease and stroke and inspiring action.
To embed a CDC Public Health Informatics Fellow within the Lehigh Valley healthcare system to solve complex public health informatics challenges by linking informatics, population health science and data on social determinants of health.
To expand the reach of Hear Her resources for healthcare professionals and American Indian and Alaska Native communities in the United States and conduct exploratory formative work to determine the feasibility of a new segment of the campaign to reach a global audience.
To monitor the global tobacco epidemic as well as enhance capacity for tobacco control programs in high-burden tobacco use countries and to measure reductions in e-cigarette use by working to include company retail sales data in national tobacco surveys.