Healthy Brain Resource Center

At a glance

CDC's Healthy Brain Resource Center (HBRC) offers helpful information and materials to support public health professionals in their Healthy Brain Initiative planning, education, implementation, and evaluation efforts. This page offers an overview of HBRC content and information on how to navigate the Center. Stories from the Field highlight the achievements of Building Our Largest Dementia (BOLD) Infrastructure for Alzheimer's project and the National Healthy Brain Initiative (HBI) project award recipients.

Healthy Brain Resource Center (HBRC) logo, including graphic of brain with mechanisms, gears, tools.

CDC's Healthy Brain Resource Center (HBRC) offers helpful information and materials to support public health professionals in their Healthy Brain Initiative planning, education, implementation, and evaluation efforts. This page offers an overview of HBRC content and information on how to navigate the Center. Stories from the Field highlight the achievements of Building Our Largest Dementia (BOLD) Infrastructure for Alzheimer's project and the National Healthy Brain Initiative (HBI) project award recipients.

About the Healthy Brain Resource Center

The Healthy Brain Resource Center (HBRC) provides users with credible public information and materials to support implementation of the National Healthy Brain Initiative (HBI) Road Map actions.

  • It serves as a centralized clearinghouse for over 400 brain health and caregiving resources from various organizations.
  • HBRC resources are easily accessible for state, local, and tribal public health agencies.

You can search by HBI Road Map topic, populations of interest, social determinants of health, language, or resource type.

Visit the Healthy Brain Resource Center‎

Search for resources or submit a new resource

Stories from the Field are also available as examples for others. These stories highlight achievements in advancing brain health from award recipients of CDC's Building Our Largest Dementia (BOLD) Infrastructure for Alzheimer's Project and the National Healthy Brain Initiative (HBI) project.

How to use the HBRC

HBRC User Manual

This user manual is a guide for users of the HBRC. It includes general information as well as guidance on how to access and navigate the HBRC. Hyperlinked table of contents provides easy access to specific sections of the document.

Orientation video

The following 60-minute presentation shows how to search for resources and how to submit new resources for consideration. The HBRC conducts quarterly scans for new resources and accepts suggestions for new content.

HBRC: Stories From the Field

The Healthy Brain Resource Center's Stories from the Field highlight the achievements of award recipients from the Building Our Largest Dementia (BOLD) Infrastructure for Alzheimer's project and the National Healthy Brain Initiative (HBI) projects. Click on the links below to see short graphic stories about select recipients and their work.

Additional information‎

Are you a BOLD or NHBI award recipient? Do you have a story to share to highlight your program's work?

Resources