With more than 3,000 homes in rural Alaska lacking piped water systems, sanitation remains a serious challenge in many remote communities. So CDC, the CDC Foundation and the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium (ANTHC) coordinated to help solve the problem.

Sorority chapters around the country encourage a lifelong commitment to service and sisterhood, and for some—including Philadelphia chapters of Alpha Kappa Alpha and Delta Sigma Theta Sorority—those efforts have taken on a whole new dimension during the pandemic.

Nowhere in Vietnam has the impact of COVID-19 on TB been felt more than in Ho Chi Minh City—which is not only the epicenter of TB infections in Vietnam, but also the location of over half of the country’s total COVID-19 cases and more than 75% of the deaths thus far.

Travel epidemiologist Karuna Mary Bollam plays an unusual role in the COVID-19 Corps: she works closely with CDC’s Division of Global Migration and Quarantine to make sure those who are under isolation for coronavirus don’t leave the state of Oregon by air or sea.

What if English was your second language, and the COVID information you’re relying on to keep your loved ones safe was hard to find and poorly translated? It's one of the challenges the Latino Community Center, the NHL Foundation and the CDC Foundation teamed up to solve.

In 2019, Hurricane Dorian made landfall and was the strongest hurricane to hit the Northern Bahamas in modern records. The storm caused loss of life and devastated many parts of the island including roads, homes and medical clinics.

The Foundation has tackled the opioid crisis, tobacco use, hurricane relief, Ebola, Zika and other health challenges around the globe. But nothing compares to the scope and scale of the needs from the COVID-19 response. Enter a new emergency workforce: the COVID-19 Corps.

A team of public health workers in Connecticut—the Community Outreach Specialists program—is working to address health disparities through a program focusing on outreach to communities of color by staff who live and work in the neighborhoods they serve.