CDC Winnable Battles Progress Report

What is a Winnable Battle?

Winnable Battles are public health priorities where CDC and its partners can make significant progress ending epidemics and eliminating diseases to help advance the CDC Strategic Framework in a relatively short timeframe.

Antibiotic Resistance

Our goal is to combat antibiotic resistance and save lives.

HIV Elimination

Our goal is to eliminate new HIV infections in 10 years.

Million Hearts

Our goal is to prevent 1 million heart attacks and strokes by 2022.

Opioid Overdose

Our goal is to reduce U.S. opioid overdose mortality by at least 15% by 2021.

Vaccine Preventable Disease

Our goal is to increase vaccination coverage and reduce disparities across the United States.

Viral Hepatitis

Our goal is to reduce new viral hepatitis infections and decrease deaths associated with viral hepatitis.

Related Federal Priority Initiatives

Previous Winnable Battles, 2010-2017

While CDC and its public health partners have made progress in many Winnable Battle areas since the initiative’s inception in 2010, we still have more work to do. View the CDC Winnable Battles Final Report 2010-2015 and the 2014 and 2013 Progress Reports for details.

Page last reviewed: September 9, 2019

Content source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention