Updates from the Field: Stories of Regional Collaboration

Regional collaborations are a cornerstone of global health security and are instrumental in addressing the public health threats of our time. They allow us to strengthen communication, consolidate functions, create efficiencies, and accelerate progress in preventing, detecting and responding to disease threats.

In the newest issue of Updates from the Field, we highlight how the Division of Global Health Protection and other CDC groups have connected people and systems within different regions and around the globe. In Africa, we connected disease detectives from Nigeria and Benin to respond to a Lassa fever outbreak. In the Americas, we addressed a deadly fungus and continue to support response efforts to measles outbreaks. In the Middle East/Europe, we helped improve vaccination coverage for polio in Syria and in Asia worked to bring safe water to Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh.

We hope you will join us in recognizing the impact of CDC’s innovative work as we remain committed to creating a safer, healthier world.

Promoting the Release

• CDC Global Health Feature, including the following:
  • CDC Global Health “Our Global Voices” Blog: Tracking Lassa Fever Across Three Countries
  • CDC Global Health Story: Taming a Triple Threat Fungus
• Social Media Toolkit
  • Share our sample social media messages
  • Follow our handles on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram
  • Share our downloadable graphics
  • Use the hashtag #globalhealth to join the conversation via social media
• PDF download available for print

Learn more about the Division of Global Health Protection, and global health security.

Social Media Toolkit

This Updates from the Field: Stories of Regional Collaboration Social Media Toolkit includes communication tools that make it easy for individuals and partner organizations to promote the release of CDC’s Division of Global Health Protection newest issue that shares how a regional approach can safeguard and improve global health security.

Sample Social Media Messages

Pair these messages with one of our graphics or photos on your social media profiles.

• Just released – Updates from the Field: Stories of Regional Collaboration. Learn how @CDCGlobal is using a regional approach to connect people and systems around the world to better fight public health threats. https://go.usa.gov/xm8g6
• How does utilizing a regional approach to prevent, detect, and respond to disease threats globally help protect us locally? Get the details in @CDCGlobal’s newly released Updates from the Field. https://go.usa.gov/xm8g6
• In a world where a disease outbreak could travel the globe within 36 hrs, how do we better respond to growing and emerging health threats? In the new Updates from the Field, @CDCGlobal shares how regional collaboration is key. https://go.usa.gov/xm8g6
• We live in an increasingly interconnected world, in which a disease can travel from a rural village to any continent in 36 hrs. Learn how regional coordination is critical to outbreak response and improving global health security in @CDCGlobal’s new Updates from the Field. https://go.usa.gov/xm8g6
• From helping improve polio vaccination coverage in Syria to addressing a deadly fungus in Panama, CDC is on the ground helping countries bring their health systems together in a regional approach to global health security. https://go.usa.gov/xm8g6

Handles to follow
@cdcglobal Twitter
@cdcglobal Facebook
@cdcglobal Instagram
@DrMartinCDC Twitter

Download Shareable Graphics
How to use: Post and share these graphics on your social media channels, blogs, and websites. Find more DGHP social media graphics here.