According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), reducing foodborne infections by just 10 percent would keep 5 million Americans from getting sick each year.

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), African-American men are 25 percent more likely to die from heart disease, compared to non-Hispanic white men. To help address this health disparity, the CDC Foundation is partnering with Pfizer and Quest Diagnostics to launch the Million Hearts® “Healthy is Strong” initiative.

Comprehensive information from 22 low- and middle-income countries highlights global scope of tobacco epidemic in advance of 2015 World No Tobacco Day.

To provide standardized tobacco use data and track key tobacco control measures, Bloomberg Philanthropies is providing the CDC Foundation with a two-year, $14 million grant that will enable CDC, in partnership with the World Health Organization, to conduct repeat tobacco usage surveys in 11 countries to measure tobacco control progress.

The four-year grant will enable the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in partnership with the World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa, to build and enhance tobacco use surveillance and research capacity in sub-Saharan Africa, providing nationally representative data to track tobacco use and trends across the region.

$1.6 million project will build upon topics in Healthy People 2020 initiative.

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

To support library access for state and local health departments.

To help state health agencies create effective cross-sector and cross-agency coordination to ensure all communities can thrive.

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

To assist 25 low- and middle-income countries across Latin America, Asia and Africa in strengthening their public health data systems and data use for critical policy-making decisions.

To support best in class, future-forward thinking and strategic opportunities for improving public health, inspired by lessons learned from transformational public health events throughout the history of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

To engage partners and stakeholders on awareness and education for infection associated chronic conditions (IACC).

To recognize an individual each year who reflects excellence in public health practice; a rare combination of perspective grounded in frontline, day-to-day public health work and constant drive toward meaningful program measurement and outcomes.

To provide a memorial fund in honor of Chris Kochtitzky’s service to CDC and provide funding for programs that bridge the gap between urban planning and public health.

To recognize a health educator who has made a substantial contribution to advancing the field of health education or health promotion through research, program development or program delivery.