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2006 > Burns-Grant and Fraser Accept CDC/ATSDR Minority Health
Mentor/Champion of Excellence Group Award
TB Challenge: Partnering to Eliminate TB in African Americans
Burns-Grant and Fraser Accept CDC/ATSDR Minority Health Mentor/Champion
of Excellence Group Award
H. David Crowder, Team Leader, DTBE/FSEB
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Dr. Julie Gerberding, Gail Burns-Grant,
and Dr. Mitchell Cohen |
On July 13, 2006, Gail Burns-Grant and Michael Fraser, DTBE, Field
Services and Evaluation Branch, received the Minority Health Mentor/Champion
of Excellence Group Award at the CDC/ATSDR Honor Awards Ceremony.
This award was given in recognition of their work to reduce TB in
African Americans through the coordination of three highly successful
demonstration projects in the states of Georgia and South Carolina
and the city of Chicago and for the timely dissemination of lessons
learned from these projects.
The work of the staff in the three project areas that Burns-Grant
and Fraser coordinated has been critical to the success of the demonstration
projects. These project area staff worked successfully with community
based organizations and local health departments in targeting interventions
to specific community areas, including zip code areas and health
districts. Early on, the project staff recognized that it would
be important to have community involvement and worked to ensure
community representation and inclusion in the planning and implementation
of these three projects. Efforts were made to develop active partnerships
with the target populations to ensure their needs were met and that
the interventions developed were culturally competent and acceptable.
Burns-Grant and Fraser identified the important lessons learned
by the project areas and have been featuring them periodically in
a quarterly CDC/DTBE publication, The TB Challenge. This
newsletter, approaching its third year, is formatted, edited, designed,
and distributed by DTBE staff. Through this newsletter, they share
strategies, innovative approaches, interventions, and evaluation
results that can be translated and applied nationally. They also
speak and exhibit at local and national conferences, meetings, and
seminars sponsored by internal and external partners to raise awareness
and call for community action to reduce historically high rates
of TB in the African-American community.
Working closely with project areas engaged in this work, they have
made contributions that have had a positive public health impact
on reducing TB rates and will help to strengthen the overall health
of African Americans nationwide. Gail commented as follows on the
award: “We share this award with all of our partners who are
committed and dedicated to addressing the historically high rates
of TB in the African-American community, for we work with them and
through them to advance this work. I am particularly grateful for
the latitude we have had-the flexibility that our project areas
have been granted by our division to develop, design, and disseminate
acceptable messages that were actually created in the community
for the community.”
Minority Health Resources
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Health to view announcements, upcoming conferences, meetings,
trainings, reports, publications, and other minority health-related
resources.
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