Impact Evaluation of CDC Foundation-funded COVID-19 Projects Open Access
Oh, Hanvit (Summer 2022)
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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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