Impact Evaluation of CDC Foundation-funded COVID-19 Projects Open Access

Abstract

The CDC Foundation is a U.S. Congress-formed nonprofit to facilitate the work of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). During global emergencies, it works in lockstep with the federal agency. COVID-19 greatly challenged healthcare systems, laboratories, and community communication. In early 2020, the CDC activated the incident management system (IMS), alerting the CDC Foundation’s emergency response operations. To quickly address the public health demands from the pandemic, the CDC Foundation activated its Emergency Response Fund to support the CDC and external organization projects. From February 2020 to July 2022, the CDC Foundation partnered with external projects by providing grants and technical support. We evaluated partnership outcomes and experience during the CDC Foundation-funded COVID-19 projects. We also documented the partnership operation and outputs, outcomes, impacts, and challenges to provide recommendations for future partnership experiences. Key themes of the partnership outcome included: positive partnership experience; opportunities of improvement; challenges prior to partnership; public health impact of partnership; and organizational outcomes. The COVID-19 pandemic heavily affected local communities. The CDC Foundation should continue to partner with local and community-based organizations for future responses. Large public health organizations should foster a culture of technical assistance and relationships with other organizations to assist in creating the best programmatic outcomes.

Table of Contents

1. INTRODUCTION

2. BACKGROUND

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

The National Foundation for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (The CDC Foundation)

The CDC Foundation: Emergency Response Fund

The CDC Foundation: Response, Crisis, Preparedness Unit

COVID-19 in Social and Community Context

Background of Grantee Partners’ COVID-19 related Projects

3. LITERATURE REVIEW

Public Health Collaboration

Collaboration during Infectious Disease Outbreaks and Emergency Response

Collaboration during COVID – 19

Purpose of Impact Evaluation of Public Health Collaborations

Significance of this research study

4. METHODS

Analysis

Impact Evaluation

5. RESULTS

Overview

1. Description of Partnering Organizations (Descriptive Statistics)

2. Impact Evaluation through the Short Responses

5. DISCUSSION

The Importance of Public – Private Partnership

The Development of CDC Foundation Partnership through the Pandemic

Recommendations

Limitation

REFERENCES

TABLE AND FIGURES

APPENDIX

Survey Design

CDC Foundation’s Logic Model Framework

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School	Rollins School of Public Health
Department	Hubert Department of Global Health
Degree	M.P.H.
Submission	Master's Thesis
Language	English
Research Field	Health Sciences, Public Health Health Sciences, Public Health Education Health Sciences, Health Care Management
Keyword	Emergency Response Public-private partnership Monitoring and Evaluation Impact Evaluation Infectious Disease
Committee Chair / Thesis Advisor	Scott JN McNabb , Emory University
Committee Members	Hailey Bednar , CDC Foundation Suzanne McMillan, CDC Foundation

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