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Chronic Disease & Birth Defects

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Medicolegal Death Investigation FHIR Implementation Collaborative

Program
To support Medicolegal Death Investigation offices and their data partners in exploring, testing and innovating data modernization strategies.
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Community Health Action Network

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To serve as an applied learning hub for community-based organizations, public health departments, funders and others to create system-level changes and community-driven capacity building for the public health ecosystem.
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Stillbirth: Understanding Maternal Experiences

Program
To build capacity for population-based surveillance among individuals with a recent stillbirth within the United States.
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Hear Her Evaluation and Community-Based Organization Implementation

Program
To complete HEAR HER evaluation and community-based organization (CBO) implementation activities.
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Development and Dissemination of Findings & Methodology on Inclusive Education

Program
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.
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Hypertension Control Program

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To support work in 2025 and 2026 to build out Hypertension Control Campaigns, both nationally and for one local intervention. The local components and activations will be in Atlanta, with a focus on the collaboration with the Atlanta Hypertension Initiative.
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Hormone Laboratory Collaborations

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To help CDC provide reference and quality control materials for laboratory collaboration, including collaborations for the Hormone Measurement Standardization program.
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Preventing Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV

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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.
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Building Capacity to Prevent Veteran Suicide

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To build capacity of community-based veterans serving organizations to test and implement CDC’s veteran suicide prevention strategies.
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Monitoring the Global & Domestic Tobacco Epidemic

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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.
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Leveraging CILs to Increase Vaccines for People with Disabilities

Program
To support Centers for Independent Living (CILs) in increasing access to COVID-19 vaccination.
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MDI Connect

Program
To support Medicolegal Death Investigation offices and their data partners in exploring, testing and innovating data modernization strategies.
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Georgia Health Initiative to Eliminate Hunger

Program
To convene a statewide meeting bringing together nonprofits, advocacy organizations, government and funders in Georgia with the goal of deepening connections across the state and create the conditions to eliminate hunger and address food and nutrition insecurity.
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Preparing MCH Nurses for Emerging Threats

Program
To provide resources to nursing and nurse practitioner groups.
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Building National and State Surveillance for Key Nutrition Topics for all Children

Program
To add three nutrition questions on the National Survey of Children's Health for the next available survey cycle (2025 or 2026) to be asked of all children aged 1-17 years. This will yield nationally representative and state-level estimates of key dietary behaviors for all children aged 1-17 years.
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CHAMPS Network Program

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To create a long-term network of high-quality sites to collect robust and standardized primary data with the overarching objective of tracking the preventable causes of childhood death globally.
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Maternal and Neonatal Health in Tanzania Sustainability Evaluation

Program
To evaluate the sustainability of activities supporting increased availability and access to maternal health services in Tanzania.
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Monitoring E-Cigarette Use Among Youth

Program
To generate scientifically defensible and rapidly available data to assess the effectiveness of e-cigarette flavor restriction policies, the Monitoring the E-cigarette Use Among Youth in Select U.S. Cities and States program has been underway since 2019 with program activities that include: 1) analyzing retail sales data for e-cigarettes and other tobacco products and 2) implementing surveys to collect timely estimates of e-cigarette use and related behaviors among youth and young adults.
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Lehigh Valley Public Health Informatics Fellowship

Program
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.
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Strengthening Partnerships between Public Health and Community-Based Organizations

Program
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 to best prepare future responses to public health emergencies and effectively promote broader community health objectives.
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Improving Maternal-Infant Health & Health Care

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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.
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Atlanta Hypertension Initiative

Program
To improve hypertension control in metro Atlanta—a leading contributor to cardiovascular disease deaths in the region—by forging strong connections among individuals, health care providers and community organizations to promote heart-healthy behaviors, connect people with prevention services, drive improvements in health care quality and empower individuals to take steps toward better cardiovascular health.
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Hear Her® American Indian/Alaska Native Campaign

Program
To build capacity and support the development, implementation and evaluation of materials for the Hear Her® campaign.
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Empowering Families and Communities for Child Health and Nutrition

Program
This project aims to identify and uplift best practices in organizations working to remove barriers that prevent families with young children (birth to 5 years of age) and their families from accessing nutritious, plant-based food and nutrition education. These best practices will be highlighted in bright spots stories, an interactive map, and a webinar learning series showcased on the Hunger, Nutrition, and Health Action Collaborative website.
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Improving Respectful Care Through Hear Her®

Program
To supplement CDC’s efforts to improve respectful maternal care at a system-level by supporting Perinatal Quality Collaboratives to leverage Hear Her resources as part of quality improvement initiatives with hospitals throughout their state.
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Sickle Cell Data Collection

Program
To build the framework for collecting data about individuals in the United States with sickle cell disease in order to monitor their health outcomes, evaluate current systems of care, and inform the development of a comprehensive care model to meet the needs of these individuals throughout their life.
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Analysis and Dissemination of Population-Based Sickle Cell Disease

Program
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.
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Hear Her Maternal Health Campaign

Program
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.
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