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 prevent and protect older adults from sustaining falls and fall-related injuries by developing and implementing a risk factor prevention program.

To support community-based organizations (CBOs) in community violence prevention with technical assistance from CDC.

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 strengthen the evidence base for primary prevention of youth- or adult-perpetrated child sexual abuse.

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 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.