Campaigns and Initiatives

The PROTECT Initiative (CDC): PROTECT is an innovative collaboration bringing together public health agencies, private sector companies, professional organizations, consumer/patient advocates, and academic experts to keep children safe from unintentional medication overdoses. Medication overdoses can lead to harm, sometimes requiring emergency treatment or hospitalization and are a significant public health problem.

Protect the Ones You Love (CDC) In an effort to raise parents' awareness about the leading causes of child injury in the United States and how they can be prevented, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has launched the Protect the Ones You Love initiative.

Get Smart Know When Antibiotics Work (CDC) This campaign aims to reduce the rate of rise of antibiotic resistance by: promoting adherence to appropriate prescribing guidelines among providers, decreasing demand for antibiotics for viral upper respiratory infections among healthy adults and parents of young children, and increasing adherence to prescribed antibiotics for upper respiratory infections.

Get Smart for Healthcare Get Smart for Healthcare is a new campaign that focuses on improving antimicrobial use (or antibiotic use) in in-patient healthcare settings such as acute-care facilities, and long-term care. The goals for Get Smart for Healthcare are to 1) improve patient safety through better treatment of infections, 2) reduce the emergence of anti-microbial resistant pathogens and C. difficile, 3) heighten awareness of the challenges posed by antimicrobial resistance in healthcare, and 4) encourage better use of antimicrobials as one solution.

FDA Safe Use Initiative Collaborating to Reduce Preventable Harm from Medications. The goal of the Safe Use Initiative is to reduce preventable harm by identifying specific, preventable medication risks and developing, implementing and evaluating cross-sector interventions with partners who are committed to safe medication use.