BOLD Public Health Programs Award Recipients

What is BOLD?

Building our Largest Dementia (BOLD) Infrastructure

The Building our Largest Dementia (BOLD) Infrastructure for Alzheimer's Act directs CDC to strengthen U.S. public health infrastructure to address dementia.

Through BOLD, CDC funds state, territorial, local, and Tribal public health departments to create a strong public health infrastructure with a focus on issues such as:

• Dementia risk reduction.
• Increasing early detection and diagnosis.
• Prevention of avoidable hospitalizations.
• Supporting dementia caregiving.

BOLD award recipients

CDC funds 43 state, local, territorial, and tribal recipients for a 5-year period (2023-2028).

What they do

All recipients are using CDC's Healthy Brain Initiative State and Local Road Map for Public Health, 2023-2027 and the Road Map for Indian Country as guides to expand and improve the response to Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) in their jurisdictions.

Activities include:

• Increasing awareness and understanding of ADRD among the general public and health care providers.
• Addressing ADRD topics corresponding to primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention.
• Addressing social needs and nonmedical factors that influence health to achieve health equity goals.

Types of awards

There are two types of awards: Component 1 and Component 2.

Component 1

Component 1 recipients are funded for 2 years of capacity building and 3 years of implementation for their strategic plans:

• Capacity Building (Years 1 and 2): Recipients build or enhance capacity by creating jurisdiction-wide dementia coalitions and developing or updating ADRD strategic plans.
• Implementation (Years 3 through 5): Recipients implement activities in line with their ADRD strategic plan and the Road Map series.

Component 2

Component 2 recipients are funded for 5 years to implement activities in support of their ADRD strategic plan and Road Map series. These recipients already have strategic plans in place.

HBRC BOLD Program Stories From the Field

The Healthy Brain Resource Center's Stories from the Field highlight the achievements of BOLD award recipients.