Get Smart Campaign Partners
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Working with a wide variety of partners is critical to the success of the Get Smart: Know When Antibiotics Work campaign. The following types of organizations currently partner with Get Smart:
- State and local health departments
- Universities and schools
- Managed care organizations
- Health care purchasers/insurers
- Pharmacy benefit management companies
- Federal government
- Professional organizations
- Pharmaceutical companies
- Community organizations
- Consumer advocacy groups
- Businesses/business associations
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Why should I partner with the Get Smart campaign? |
A multidimensional effort is required to address the problem of antibiotic resistance and promote appropriate antibiotic use around the country. Partner assistance and support will help the Get Smart campaign achieve its objectives. Working with CDC also offers many benefits to partners, including:
- Public recognition as a partner of CDC's Get Smart campaign
- Scientific expertise of CDC
- Sharing information and resources with CDC and other partners
- Use of CDC educational materials
- Use of CDC national media campaign products
- Improved health of constituents
- Improved quality of patient care
- Cost reductions (due to decreased antibiotic prescriptions, decreased visits, etc.)
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How do Get Smart campaign partners help to promote appropriate antibiotic use? |
There are many opportunities to collaborate in promoting appropriate antibiotic use, including, but not limited to:
- Providing education to healthcare consumers
- Distributing healthcare provider detailing sheets reviewing appropriate use guidelines
- Developing local level appropriate antibiotic use campaigns, including educational products
- Collaborating with Get Smart and local level programs on projects
- Exchanging in-kind services with Get Smart or local level campaigns
- Providing assistance to local level campaigns in producing educational materials or sponsoring events
- Delivering presentations on appropriate use to interested parties
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How do I become a partner with the Get Smart campaign? |
For more information on partnership opportunities, please contact us at getsmart@cdc.gov .
Who are the Get Smart campaign's partners? |
Below is a list of the Get Smart campaign's current partners, including 34 federally funded state and local health department programs. This number has grown from the original 8 sites in 2000. When available and appropriate, a link is provided to a specific appropriate antibiotic use program or further information about antibiotic resistance.
Get Smart Campaign Partners* |
For-Profit Partners
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Businesses
- Catalina Health Resource
- Chamberlain Healthcare Public Relations
- Drug Store News
- Family Doctor Magazine
- Fleetwood Enterprises
- John Deere Health
- Meijer Stores
- Viacom Outdoor
- Walgreens
Health Insurance Organizations
- Aetna Healthcare
- Anthem Blue Cross of California
- Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Virginia
- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Inc.
- Humana Inc.
- Independence Blue Cross, Pennsylvania
- Kaiser Permanente
- Keystone Mercy Health Plan
- M-Plan, Indiana
- Passport Health Plan, Kentucky
- Sierra Health Services
- Wellpoint, Inc.
Medical Supply Company
- Quality Assured Services, Inc.
- Quidel Corporation
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Pharmacy Benefit Management Company
Pharmaceutical/Infection Control/Disposal Company
- Abbott Pharmaceuticals
- Bayer HealthCare
- Becton, Dickinson and Company
- Clorox Company
- Daiichi Pharmaceutical Corporation
- Dexcel Pharma, Inc.
- FLAVORx
- GlaxoSmithKline
- Merck and Company, Inc.
- Ortho-McNeil, Inc.
- PDI (Professional Disposables Inc./Nice Pak)
- Pfizer Consumer Healthcare
- Pfizer Inc.
- Pharmacy Choice, Inc.
- PharmaLink, Inc.
- Procter & Gamble
- Reckitt-Benckiser, the maker of LYSOL
- Roche (Hoffman-La Roche Inc.)
- Sanofi-Aventis Group
- Wyeth Consumer Healthcare
Provider Group/Organization/Company
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Non-Profit Partners |
Advocacy Group
Business/Business Association
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Federal Government
Foundation
Health Insurance Organization
Professional Association
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| * NOTE: These sites are not CDC sites and will be opened in a new browser window. CDC is not responsible for the content of web pages found at these links. Links to nonfederal organizations are provided solely as a service to our users. These links do not indicate an endorsement of these organizations by the CDC or the federal government. |
State and Local Health Departments |
States and Counties with CDC-Funded Appropriate Antibiotic Use Programs
For more information about CDC funding, please visit the Program Planners page.
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