Chronic Disease Education and Awareness Program

Key points

  • Funded partners carry out public awareness activities for a variety of chronic diseases.
  • Partners help increase implementation of proven clinical and public health interventions.
  • Activities include data dissemination, education, and outreach to improve health and health equity.
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Overview

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Activities shape education and awareness approaches for public health impact and health equity.

These competitive grant programs expand and advance CDC's work with national partners on education, outreach, and public awareness activities for a variety of chronic diseases for which there is a clear disparity in public and professional awareness and do not have dedicated CDC funding.

Why it matters

This approach will strengthen the science base for prevention, education, and public health awareness for a variety of chronic diseases that are often unrecognized or poorly understood and do not currently have dedicated resources that would lead to meaningful patient outcomes.

Recipients focus on data dissemination, education, and public awareness activities that will shape effective, evidence-based clinical and population-level education and awareness approaches for public health impact and health equity.

Funded partners and programs

CDC funds chronic disease education and awareness projects through two grant programs. For descriptions of projects and grant recipients, see:

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National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion