The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s REACH 2010 Initiative
Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health
REACH 2010 was launched with the declaration that “health disparity is a crisis of epidemic scale”. The national REACH initiative set out in 2000 to show that communities could challenge health disparity at the local level-and win. Through REACH, the CDC supports diverse coalitions that design, implement, and evaluate community-driven strategies to eliminate health disparities in key health priority areas such as heart disease, diabetes, breast and cervical cancer, immunizations, infant mortality, and HIV/AIDS.
CDC REACH 2010 Grantees
By developing innovative approaches to addressing the unique needs of racial and ethnic groups REACH coalitions nationwide are improving the health of people in communities, health care settings, schools, and work sites. Bronx Health REACH is one of 41 CDC grantees nationwide.
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