Together Our Impact is Greater

Today our nation and world face incredible health challenges—costly infectious and chronic diseases and large-scale emergencies. These challenges take lives and negatively impact our economy. But by working together we have opportunities to positively impact health as well.

The Strategies to Repair Equity and Transform Community Health (STRETCH) 2.0 Initiative brought together over 150 participants for its second national convening on June 5, 2024. During the virtual event, speakers shared expertise, strategies and insights on how to use bi-directional communication to improve community health.

People who live with Sickle Cell Disease are at higher risk for developing complications during pregnancy, including high blood pressure and blood clots. But information and resources are available before, during and after pregnancy that can help.

Acting nimbly and deploying quickly in response to a public-health emergency is central to the CDC Foundation’s success. Nothing tested that ability to “do more, faster” than the COVID-19 crisis, as many public health departments found themselves in need of staff to support response activities like contact tracing and case investigation. Officials in state, local, tribal and territorial jurisdictions also needed specialists in epidemiology, communications, laboratory science, public health nursing and more. And they needed them quickly.