Press Releases

The CDC Foundation today announced that the global medical technology company BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) has contributed vital in-kind contributions, including infusion therapy and blood sampling devices that help reduce the probability of transmission of the Ebola virus to health care workers when taking blood samples from patients.

HCA, which operates 164 hospitals and 114 surgery centers in 20 states and England, and the CDC Foundation today announced a $1 million cash donation by HCA to the CDC Foundation to help support international Ebola epidemic response efforts involving the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and their work with partners on the ground in West Africa.

Prevention is better than cure when it comes to any illness, and influenza—the flu—is no exception. Business Pulse: Flu Prevention provides employers and workers with access to resources and information to prepare for the 2014–2015 flu season.

The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation provided a transformational $9 million grant to the CDC Foundation. This grant will help advance the work of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and local Ministries of Health to establish sustainable emergency operations centers in the most impacted countries of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

Funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Provides Vital Assistance and Supplies for Use in Impacted Countries

Business Pulse: Travelers’ Health, launched today by the CDC Foundation, provides businesses and corporate travelers a wide range of online resources to help them better prepare for international trips.

Betty King has been elected to the board of directors of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Foundation. King is the former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva from 2010 to 2013.

The CDC Foundation and the George W. Bush Institute today announced a new partnership to help stem the tide of cervical cancer in low- and middle-income countries based on a $3.6 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

With the globalization of travel and trade, dangerous pathogens that arise anywhere in the world are just a plane ride away.

Ruth Katz, J.D., M.P.H., has been elected to the board of directors of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Foundation. Katz is the director of The Aspen Institute’s Health, Medicine and Society Program, an educational and policy studies organization.