At a glance
CDC’s National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP) uses a health equity lens in communication planning, development, and dissemination. NCCDPHP works to create and share information in ways that everybody can understand by working with community partners and ensuring information is respectful, accurate, accessible, and timely.
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Inclusive communication guidance
CDC's Health Equity Guiding Principles for Inclusive Communication
This guide helps public health professionals, especially those involved in communications, tailor their materials and strategies to fit the unique cultural, linguistic, environmental, and historical context of specific populations or audiences.
Featured communication campaigns
Explore selected communication campaigns designed to address health inequities and health disparities.
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This campaign shares messaging about urgent maternal warning signs to prevent pregnancy-related deaths.
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About the Bring Your Brave Campaign
This campaign provides information about breast cancer to women younger than 45 by sharing real stories of young women whose lives have been affected by increased risk of breast cancer.
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This campaign aims to help Black adults ages 35 to 54 take steps to prevent heart disease and stroke.
![Tips from Former Smokers logo Tips From Former Smokers logo](/health-equity-chronic-disease/media/images/2024/06/Tips_Thumbnail.jpg)
This campaign profiles real people from many different backgrounds who have been impacted by serious long-term health effects from smoking and secondhand smoke exposure.