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Last week, the CDC Foundation joined philanthropies from across the country in Chicago, IL, at the 2018 Grantmakers In Health
(GIH) Annual Conference on Health Philanthropy. In coordination with GIH, CDC Foundation President and CEO Dr. Judy Monroe
moderated a session to emphasize the value of state-level partnerships between public health and philanthropy in accelerating
Philanthropies Can Accelerate Health And
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2. implementation of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) 6|18 Initiative. Support for the program is also
provided in part by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
In response to the rapidly changing healthcare sector, CDC’s 6|18 Initiative addresses six high-burden and high-cost health
conditions—tobacco use, high blood pressure, healthcare-associated infections, asthma, unintended pregnancies and diabetes—with
an initial 18 evidence-based interventions aimed at improving health and controlling healthcare costs by bringing together
healthcare purchasers, payers and providers with health departments and CDC.
“Since the CDC Foundation sits at the intersection between government and philanthropy, we have tremendous experience building
public-private partnerships at the global and national level to bene t public health,” said Monroe. “CDC’s 6|18 Initiative offers us the
opportunity to apply our partnership-building model at the state level.”
Jocelyn Wheaton, who serves in CDC’s O ce of the Associate Director for Policy as deputy director in the O ce of Health Systems
Collaboration, joined Monroe in the session’s panel discussion and provided an overview of progress made to date in implementing
the 6|18 Initiative’s clinical and community-based interventions in 15 U.S. states plus Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles County, CA.
In October 2018, CDC plans to expand support to additional states.
Panelist Dr. Nicole Alexander-Scott, director of the Rhode Island Department of Public Health and president-elect of the Association
of State and Territorial Health O cials (ASTHO), shared examples of how partnerships with the state Medicaid agency and CDC’s
6|18 Initiative have presented opportunities for philanthropy to amplify the impact of innovative state-level collaborations. For
example, Rhode Island’s Health Equity Zones, which implement innovative place-based strategies to promote healthy communities,
are built upon collaborations throughout the community.
“In Rhode Island, the opportunity to partner with philanthropy is endless,” said Alexander-Scott.
Providing the perspective of how philanthropy can align with state government to have greater impact by building on the existing
public health infrastructure, Dr. Gary Nelson, president of the Healthcare Georgia Foundation, added, “We want our work to be
grounded in science, built on partnerships and focused on results, and truly nothing comes closer to that than CDC’s 6|18 Initiative.”
Nelson described the value in leveraging the evidence-based and cost-saving interventions of CDC’s 6|18 Initiative as vital to
philanthropy in partnering with state legislators for policy outcomes as well as with the public health sector to align priorities and
maximize effectiveness of their work.
Many thanks to Jocelyn Wheaton, Dr. Nicole Alexander-Scott and Dr. Gary Nelson for joining with the CDC Foundation to highlight
both the complex public health challenges faced across the country and the important opportunities presented by CDC’s 6|18
Initiative for public-private partnerships to serve as a catalyst for public health advancement.

3. For more information about the CDC Foundation’s work with CDC’s 6|18 Initiative, please contact Alison Thompson, CDC
Foundation’s associate vice president for advancement, at athompson@cdcfoundation.org (mailto:athompson@cdcfoundation.org).
To learn more about CDC’s 6|18 Initiative, visit www.cdc.gov/sixeighteen (https://www.cdc.gov/sixeighteen/).
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4. The CDC Foundation team at the 2018 Grantmakers In Health Annual Conference on Health Philanthropy.
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