National Health Initiatives, Strategies & Action Plans

The national health initiatives, strategies, and action plans listed below can guide public health planning and activities across the United States. 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 Disease
• 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-2.2MB]

Cross-Cutting Topics

• 6|18 Initiative: Accelerating Evidence into Action
• Healthy People
• HI-5: Health Impact in 5 Years
• National Action Plan to Improve Health Literacy
  • CDC’s Health Literacy Action Plan
  • CDC’s Health Literacy Site (includes action plan)
• National Pain Strategy
• National Prevention Strategy

Emergency Preparedness and Response

• Global Health Security Agenda
• National Health Security and Implementation Plan
• National Pandemic Strategy
• National Strategy for Biosurveillance

Environmental Health

• Coordinated Federal Action Plan to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Asthma Disparities

Health Disparities

• HHS Action Plan to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities [PDF-98MB]
• National Stakeholder Strategy for Achieving Health Equity

Health IT

• Connecting Health and Care for the Nation: A 10-Year Vision to Achieve an Interoperable Health IT Infrastructure [PDF-607KB]

Healthcare Quality

• National Quality Strategy

Heart Disease and Stroke

• The Public Health Action Plan to Prevent Heart Disease and Stroke: Ten-Year Update [PDF-2.44MB]
• Million Hearts Initiative

Immunization/Vaccination

• National Adult Immunization Plan
• US National Vaccine Plan

Infectious Disease

• Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria
  • National Strategy for Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria
    • National Action Plan for Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria [PDF-441KB]
  • CDC’s Detect and Protect Against Antibiotic Resistance (AR) Initiative
• Healthcare-Associated Infections
  • National Action Plan to Prevent Health Care-Associated Infections: Road Map to Elimination
• Hepatitis
  • National Viral Hepatitis Action Plan 2017–2020
  • HHS Action Plan for the Prevention, Care, & Treatment of Viral Hepatitis [PDF-2MB]
• HIV/AIDS
  • National HIV/AIDS Strategy: Updated to 2020
  • HIV Care Continuum Initiative
• Influenza (Flu)
  • National Pandemic Strategy
• Tuberculosis
  • National Action Plan for Combating Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis

Injury Prevention

• Facing Addiction in America: The Surgeon General’s Report on Alcohol, Drugs, and Health
• National Action Plan for Adverse Drug Event Prevention
• National Action Plan for Child Injury Prevention
• National Strategies for Advancing Bicycle Safety
• National Strategies for Advancing Child Pedestrian Safety [PDF-277KB]
• National Strategy for Suicide Prevention: Goals and Objectives for Action
• Prevention Through Design National Initiative
• Toward Zero Deaths: A National Strategy on Highway Safety [PDF-2.69MB]

Reproductive Health

• National Public Health Action Plan for the Detection, Prevention, and Management of Infertility [PDF-947KB]

Tobacco

• E-cigarette Use Among Youth and Young Adults: A Report of the Surgeon General, 2016 (see Call to Action ) [PDF-2.29MB]
• Ending the Tobacco Epidemic: A Tobacco Control Strategic Action Plan for the US Department of Health and Human Services [PDF-2.2MB]
• Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking and Health, The Health Consequences of Smoking—50 Years of Progress [PDF-35.95MB]
  See, in particular, Chapter 16, “A Vision for Ending the Tobacco Epidemic: Toward a Society Free of Tobacco-Caused Death and Disease”

Workforce

• The National Public Health Workforce Strategic Roadmap