When it comes to effective emergency response, there's no substitute for experience. Meet some of the CDC Foundation's senior advisors who were hired to bring their deep public health backgrounds to provide help wherever they were needed.

Former nurses, recent college grads, workforce returnees and longstanding public health pros—they’re all bringing their varied backgrounds and talents to bear as members of the CDC Foundation's COVID-19 Corps.

For Seattle Fire Chief Scoggins, who oversees a department of more than 1,000, the threat from COVID-19 is a daily concern—especially when it comes to keeping his people protected. So in May 2020, SC Johnson and the CDC Foundation teamed up to help.

Seattle was the first major U.S. city to be hard hit by the coronavirus. So the University of Washington's School of Nursing was faced with a dilemma: how could they find a way to get their students the safe in-clinic training they needed to graduate?

The CDC Foundation hired surge public health workers through the CDC Foundation’s COVID-19 Corps to give Houston, TX, more capacity. These staff in as well as others in some of the country’s most-impacted areas, from Detroit, MI, to Santa Clara, CA, were hired with the help of a $15 million donation provided by TikTok.

Does COVID-19 transmit through breastmilk? Can mothers pass it on during pregnancy? What is its impact on maternal and child health after birth? These questions and more are what the investigators of the Pregnancy Coronavirus Outcomes Registry, or PRIORITY, hope to answer.

In any public health crisis, time is the most critical resource. That's why MITRE and the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL), with the support of the CDC Foundation, knew they needed to develop a new tool to help contact tracers work faster.

While social isolation may have become the new normal, for homeless people, staying healthy during a pandemic presents a unique challenge that requires unique solutions. A look inside one city's search for answers.