To underscore the impact of workplace crashes, and to share actions employers can take to protect their workers in the United States and abroad, NIOSH and the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control joined with the CDC Foundation to launch Business Pulse: Motor Vehicle Safety at Work.
Andrea C. Gielen, Sc.D, Sc.M., a professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, who has dedicated her career to improving the health and safety of women and children, receives the 2016 Elizabeth Fries Health Education Award.
The James F. and Sarah T. Fries Foundation honored David Sleet for his life-saving contributions that have led to better evidence, more effective translation and greater adoption of injury prevention interventions.
Business Pulse: Healthy Workforce, launched today by the CDC Foundation, provides employers and workers with access to resources and information to help improve workforce health and safety, attract and retain high-performing employees and minimize healthcare costs.
To analyze banked urine samples from fire service members; interpret results by comparing across studies and to the general population; integrate results from previous collaborative studies; and disseminate important conclusions and recommendations to the U.S. fire service through an online tool kit.
To combat the drug overdose epidemic in the United States, timely, comprehensive, and high-quality data are needed to detect emerging drug use trends, ensure a nimble approach, and drive evidence-based prevention and response strategies. This project will 1) build capacity among medicolegal death investigation (MDI) offices to collect and share death data and 2) identify and develop a set of overdose prevention indicators for local and state jurisdictions to track and improve efforts.
The CDC Foundation’s Expanding Capacity to Address the Drug Overdose Epidemic program supports more than 200 field staff stationed across 45 jurisdictions as part of the CDC’s Overdose Data to Action (OD2A) program. CDC Foundation staff help public health departments and community organizations collect and respond to detailed information about overdose incidents in their area and advise on prevention strategies.
To increase the community of individuals trained in ergonomics with a focus on occupational safety and health. Established in 2015, this fund honors the memory of Thomas R. Waters, who retired from CDC's National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health at the end of 2012 after a distinguished 24-year career in the field of occupational safety and health, and who passed away suddenly in October 2014.
To improve understanding of the types and circumstances of drowning in Sub-Saharan Africa in order to develop, inform and implement drowning prevention programs to mitigate drowning risks and save lives.
To support efforts to improve data around drowning incidents in the U.S., provide basic swimming and water safety skills training in US areas with a high burden of drowning and support findings from Ghana and India on circumstances of drowning.
