National Health Initiatives, Strategies & Action Plans
- Alzheimer’s Disease
- Chronic Disease
- Cross-Cutting Topics
- Emergency Preparedness & Response
- Environmental Health
- Health Disparities
- Health IT
- Healthcare Quality
- Heart Disease & Stroke
- Immunization/Vaccination
- Injury & Violence Prevention (Child Safety, Highway Safety, Occupational Safety, Suicide, Violence)
- Reproductive Health
- Smoking & Tobacco Use
- Vector-Borne Diseases
- Workforce
Below is a list of national public health initiatives, strategies, and action plans organized by health topic. Created by groups of experts and stakeholders, these planning documents establish strategic priorities for tackling the nation’s most pressing health problems. You can use these resources to develop state or local plans, prioritize public health activities, inform funding proposals, and create other materials to ensure that public health efforts align with national goals.
This list is not exhaustive, so if you are aware of a national public health initiative or plan that is not included here, let us know at CSTLTSfeedback@cdc.gov.
For information about guidelines or recommendations developed by CDC, CDC federal advisory committees, or by CDC in collaboration with other organizations or agencies, visit Guidelines and Recommendations.
Alzheimer’s Disease
- National Plan to Address Alzheimer’s Diseaseexternal icon
- Healthy Aging in Action: Advancing the National Prevention Strategy pdf icon[PDF-4.14MB]
- The Healthy Brain Initiative: A National Public Health Road Map to Maintaining Cognitive Health
Chronic Disease
- National Action Plan for Cancer Survivorship: Advancing Public Health Strategies
- National Public Health Agenda for Osteoarthritis pdf icon[PDF-2.2MB]
Cross-Cutting Topics
- 6|18 Initiative: Accelerating Evidence into Action
- Healthy Peopleexternal icon
- HI-5: Health Impact in 5 Years
- National Action Plan to Improve Health Literacyexternal icon
- CDC’s Health Literacy Action Plan
- CDC’s Health Literacy Site (includes action plan)
- National Pain Strategy pdf icon[PDF-996KB]external icon
- National Prevention Strategy pdf icon[PDF-4.7MB]external icon
Emergency Preparedness & Response
- Global Health Security Agendaexternal icon
- National Health Security and Implementation Planpdf icon[PDF – 243KB]external icon
- National Health Security Strategy 2019–2022 pdf icon[PDF-1.4MB]external icon
- National Pandemic Strategy
- National Strategy for Biosurveillance
Environmental Health
- Federal Action Plan to Reduce Childhood Lead Exposures and Associated Health Impacts pdf icon[PDF-8.6MB]external icon
- President’s Task Force on Environmental Health Risks and Safety Risks to Childrenexternal icon
- Coordinated Federal Action Plan to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Asthma Disparitiesexternal icon
Health Disparities
- HHS Action Plan to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities pdf icon[PDF-98MB]external icon
- National Stakeholder Strategy for Achieving Health Equitypdf icon[PDF – 11MB]external icon
Health IT
Healthcare Quality
Heart Disease & Stroke
- The Public Health Action Plan to Prevent Heart Disease and Stroke: Ten-Year Update pdf icon[PDF-2.44MB]external icon
- Million Hearts Initiativeexternal icon
Immunization/Vaccination
Infectious Disease
- Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria
- Healthcare-Associated Infections
- Hepatitis
- HIV/AIDS
- Influenza (Flu)
- Tuberculosis
Injury & Violence Prevention (Child Safety, Highway Safety, Occupational Safety, Suicide, Violence)
- Facing Addiction in America: The Surgeon General’s Report on Alcohol, Drugs, and Healthexternal icon
- National Action Plan for Adverse Drug Event Preventionexternal icon
- National Action Plan for Child Injury Prevention
- National Strategies for Advancing Bicycle Safety
- National Strategies for Advancing Child Pedestrian Safety pdf icon[PDF-277KB]
- National Strategy for Suicide Prevention: Goals and Objectives for Actionexternal icon
- National Strategy for Youth Preparedness Education: Empowering, Educating and Building Resilienceexternal icon
- Prevention Through Design National Initiative
- Toward Zero Deaths: A National Strategy on Highway Safetyexternal icon
Reproductive Health
Smoking & Tobacco Use
- E-cigarette Use Among Youth and Young Adults: A Report of the Surgeon General, 2016 (see Call to Action) pdf icon[PDF-2.29MB]external icon
- Ending the Tobacco Epidemic: A Tobacco Control Strategic Action Plan for the US Department of Health and Human Services pdf icon[PDF-2.2MB]external icon
- Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking and Health, The Health Consequences of Smoking—50 Years of Progress pdf icon[PDF-35.95MB]external iconSee Chapter 16, “A Vision for Ending the Tobacco Epidemic: Toward a Society Free of Tobacco-Caused Death and Disease” (page 865)
Vector-Borne Diseases
- A National Public Health Framework for the Prevention and Control of Vector-Borne Diseases in Humanspdf icon[PDF – 3.75MB]
- National Framework fact sheetpdf icon[PDF – 279KB]