Advancing Health Equity Through Communications

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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Featured communication campaigns

Explore selected communication campaigns designed to address health inequities and health disparities.

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Too many women in this country die each year during pregnancy or in the year postpartum.

HEAR HER Campaign

This campaign shares messaging about urgent maternal warning signs to prevent pregnancy-related deaths.

Bring Your Brave logo
These powerful, personal stories describe how some young women may experience increased risk of breast cancer.

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.

Live to the Beat logo
The campaign's resources empower individuals to create their own unique heart-health journey.

Live to the Beat

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® increases awareness of free quit-smoking resources among adults—no matter who they are, where they live, or how much money they make.

Tips From Former Smokers®

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.

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