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TB Challenge: Partnering to Eliminate TB in African Americans
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Summer 2006
Burns-Grant and Fraser Accept CDC/ATSDR Minority Health Mentor/Champion of Excellence Group Award
H. David Crowder, Team Leader, DTBE/FSEB
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Dr. Julie Gerberding, Gail
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On July 13, 2006, Gail Burns-Grant and Michael Fraser, DTBE, Field Services and
Evaluation Branch, received the Minority Health Mentor/Champion of
Excellence Group Award at the CDC/ATSDR Honor Awards Ceremony. This
award was given in recognition of their work to reduce TB in African
Americans through the coordination of three highly successful
demonstration projects in the states of Georgia and South Carolina
and the city of Chicago and for the timely dissemination of lessons
learned from these projects.
The work of the staff in the three project
areas that Burns-Grant and Fraser coordinated has been critical to
the success of the demonstration projects. These project area staff
worked successfully with community based organizations and local
health departments in targeting interventions to specific community
areas, including zip code areas and health districts. Early on, the
project staff recognized that it would be important to have
community involvement and worked to ensure community representation
and inclusion in the planning and implementation of these three
projects. Efforts were made to develop active partnerships with the
target populations to ensure their needs were met and that the
interventions developed were culturally competent and acceptable.
Burns-Grant and Fraser identified the important
lessons learned by the project areas and have been featuring them
periodically in a quarterly CDC/DTBE publication, The TB
Challenge. This newsletter, approaching its third year, is
formatted, edited, designed, and distributed by DTBE staff. Through
this newsletter, they share strategies, innovative approaches,
interventions, and evaluation results that can be translated and
applied nationally. They also speak and exhibit at local and
national conferences, meetings, and seminars sponsored by internal
and external partners to raise awareness and call for community
action to reduce historically high rates of TB in the
African-American community.
Working closely with project areas engaged in
this work, they have made contributions that have had a positive
public health impact on reducing TB rates and will help to
strengthen the overall health of African Americans nationwide. Gail
commented as follows on the award: “We share this award with all of
our partners who are committed and dedicated to addressing the
historically high rates of TB in the African-American community, for
we work with them and through them to advance this work. I am
particularly grateful for the latitude we have had-the flexibility
that our project areas have been granted by our division to develop,
design, and disseminate acceptable messages that were actually
created in the community for the community.”
Minority Health Resources
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CDC's Office of Minority Health to view
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publications, and other minority health-related resources.
Contact Us
If you have story ideas or articles to share,
or would like to provide comments, please e-mail Gail Burns-Grant at
gab2@cdc.gov
or call (404) 639-8126.
To add/delete someone to/from our mailing
list, please contact Vivian Siler, Management & Program Analyst,
DTBE/FSEB, by e-mail at vas6@cdc.gov or
call (404) 639-5319.
Last Reviewed: 05/18/2008 Content Source: Division of Tuberculosis Elimination
National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention
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