SPOTLIGHT ON

• Preventing Chronic Disease
  Dr. J. Nell Brownstein serves as guest editor for the April 2008 issue of Preventing Chronic Disease which features articles on Heart Disease and Stroke. 
   
• Dr. Kathleen E. Toomey, Director of CoCHP
  Kathleen E. Toomey, M.D., M.P.H., is the director of the Coordinating Center for Health Promotion (CoCHP).

The Coordinating Center for Health Promotion (CoCHP) was created as a result of the changes in the landscape of public health. Today, many of the leading causes of death and disability are preventable through lifestyle modifications and better understanding of family history. To meet the needs of these new challenges in the area of disabilities, chronic diseases, and birth defects, CDC has strategically created Coordinating Centers that allow the agency to be more responsive and effective when dealing with the public whose health we protect.

Coordinating Centers like the Coordinating Center for Health Promotion provide a dedicated focal point for innovations—new activities such as the creation and advancement of health promotion in a much more systematic way. Together, CoCHP is advancing a national health promotion agenda that helps move CDC from a solely disease-specific approach to the broadest concepts of health promotion and wellness.

Date last reviewed: April 7, 2008
Date last modified: April 7, 2008
Content source: Coordinating Center for Health Promotion (CoCHP)