To build and enhance laboratory capacity to conduct blood lead level testing to enable effective monitoring and early detection of lead exposure. Laboratory capacity building and technical support will be implemented in program locations including Brazil; five states in India; Nepal; and six countries in sub–Saharan Africa: Ethiopia, Ghana, Malawi, Rwanda, South Africa, and Tanzania.

To help CDC provide reference and quality control materials for laboratory collaboration, including collaborations for the Hormone Measurement Standardization program.

To provide data analysis and technical assistance support for up to 39 state health departments in using the early hearing detection data they collect.

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 support state health departments in collecting certain data for the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS).

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 reduce heart attacks and strokes among U.S. adults through implementation of new cardiovascular disease prevention content and education resources such as Live to the Beat (LTTB) American Heart Month activations; the LTTB Community Ambassadors Network; and health promotion through LTTB social media platforms, the LTTB website and the “Pulse Check” digital health education platform.

To support Medicolegal Death Investigation offices and their data partners in exploring, testing and innovating data modernization strategies.

To support Dallas County Health and Human Services in promoting and protecting the health and wellness of the Dallas County community it serves through the solicitation of funds to support their top priorities.

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.

To provide technical assistance to jurisdictions to build their capacity to collect maternal self-reported data on experiences and behaviors that occur prior to, during and shortly after a stillbirth.

To strengthen the Hear Her campaign by providing technical assistance to more community-based organizations (CBO) serving disproportionately impacted populations. Funding will be provided to up to 12 CBOs to adapt and implement the Hear Her campaign. Technical assistance will be provided to support these funded CBO partnerships to implement the campaign through educational and communication strategies tailored to their local communities.

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 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.

To galvanize public and private partnerships—communities, healthcare systems, faith-based organizations, academic institutions, philanthropic groups and non-profit organizations—in pursuit of a shared vision of improving access to nutritious food and ending hunger in the United States.

To facilitate the agile development of identified shared tools, potential testing in real-world settings and support the rapid adoption and implementation of such tools and services across the public health ecosystem.

To evaluate the sustainability of activities supporting increased availability and access to maternal health services in Tanzania.

To provide support to medical examiner and coroner offices for developing data workflows, including planning key events and creating technical products that support interoperability efforts and capacity building. In partnership with the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), the CDC Foundation is growing and expanding efforts to build a community of practice, MDI Connect.

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.

To identify, develop and promote respectful maternity care resources (i.e., webinars, learning cohorts, community of practice) and provide training and technical assistance to perinatal quality collaboratives for addressing respectful maternity care.

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.

To establish, expand and support strategic partnerships with organizations dedicated to improving maternal health outcomes. This project focuses on engaging community-based organizations and subject matter experts to reduce maternal mortality while also fostering relationships with tribal-serving organizations.

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

To support Medicolegal Death Investigation offices and their data partners in exploring, testing and innovating data modernization strategies.

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.

To provide resources to nursing and nurse practitioner groups.

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.

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.

To continue the work of the Hunger, Nutrition and Health in Pregnancy Action Network and 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.

To extend and augment an evaluation of the Hear Her campaign. This project will triangulate important insights related to the performance and effects of key campaign materials.