Press Releases

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.

$1.6 million project will build upon topics in Healthy People 2020 initiative.

CDC Foundation to administer awards recognizing individuals for achievements and education advancements to improve public health.

More than 150,000 patients have been notified of potential exposure to hepatitis and HIV due to unsafe injection practices in U.S. healthcare settings since 2001. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, medical injections are an overlooked source of infections and outbreaks.

Every day, one out of 20 hospitalized patients has an infection caused by medical care. Healthcare-associated infections are costly to businesses and are potentially lethal to employees. CDC plays a vital role in helping businesses safeguard their workforces from infections.