Established by Congress, the CDC Foundation helps the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) do more, faster, by forging effective partnerships between CDC and corporations, foundations, organizations and individuals to fight threats to health and safety. The Foundation currently manages approximately 200 programs in the United States and in countries around the world. Each program involves a talented team of experts at CDC and at least one outside funding partner.
The mission of the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative (NPLI) is to improve the quality and quantity of leaders in the United States who are capable of optimally guiding and coordinating homeland security, preparedness, and emergency response activity. Established in 2003 as a joint program of Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and the Harvard School of Public Health, the NPLI’s founding and primary sponsor is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Through training, research, convening, scholarship, and direct consultation to those in critical leadership positions, the NPLI seeks to advance knowledge and understanding of the historic homeland security challenges now facing the nation.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is the nation’s premier public health agency – working to ensure healthy people in a healthy world. CDC, a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the primary Federal agency for conducting and supporting public health activities in the United States. CDC’s focus is not only on scientific excellence but also on the essential spirit that is CDC – to protect the health of all people. CDC keeps humanity at the forefront of its mission to ensure health protection through promotion, prevention and preparedness.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation focuses on the pressing health and health care issues facing our country. As the nation’s largest philanthropy devoted exclusively to improving the health and health care of all Americans, the Foundation works with a diverse group of organizations and individuals to identify solutions and achieve comprehensive, meaningful and timely change. For more than 35 years the Foundation has brought experience, commitment, and a rigorous, balanced approach to the problems that affect the health and health care of those it serves.
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