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.

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.

With the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, public health organizations are on the front lines in the fight to save lives. But the rapid spread of the virus has stretched resources thin as public health organizations and healthcare providers combat the pandemic on multiple fronts.

Though COVID-19 has impacted communities around the world, it has not affected all communities equally. When a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention team noticed that Latinx residents in parts of central Virginia were suffering disproportionately high rates of COVID-19 infection, they wanted to learn why.

Across the United States today, more than two million people have an opioid use disorder. As drug overdoses continue to increase nationwide, fewer and fewer families are left untouched by an epidemic that claims 130 lives in the United States each day.