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 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 state and local health departments in implementing Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS), streamlining data collection and providing actionable insights to inform public health strategies.
To support Tribal Serving Organizations in adapting and implementing Healthy Native Babies materials, providing culturally informed training and expanding community engagement to reduce sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and other sleep-related infant deaths.
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 create centers of excellence and expand emergency obstetric and neonatal care capacity in regions of Tanzania. The CDC Foundation will implement activities to evaluate maternal and perinatal outcomes and health facility improvements in Tanzania, and provide scientific expertise and technical assistance to partners in Tanzania, Malawi and Nigeria.
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.
