Partners

World Health Organization (WHO)

http://www.who.int/nutrition/topics/micronutrients/en/*

Cooperative Agreement

The CDC cooperative agreement with WHO is to provide epidemiological training and technical assistance on assessing micronutrient status at a population level.

UNICEF

http://www.unicef.org*

Cooperative Agreement

The CDC cooperative agreement with UNICEF is to support selected countries to

• Implement micronutrient malnutrition assessment and monitoring programs.
• Develop and strengthen national capacity to monitor product quality and biological impact of interventions to eliminate micronutrient malnutrition.

Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)

http://www.gainhealth.org/*

Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)

As outlined in the Memorandum of Understanding with GAIN, CDC  provides epidemiologic,technical, and training assistance  to GAIN in  the development of  programs to monitor and evaluate micronutrient fortification programs.

USAID Micronutrient Program (A2Z)

http://www.a2zproject.org/*

Inter-Agency Agreement

The CDC interagency agreement with USAID is to work with A2Z to provide epidemiologic and technical assistance in developing, implementing and evaluating systems to monitor micronutrient malnutrition elimination programs.

Network for Sustained Elimination of Iodine Deficiency

http://www.iodinenetwork.net*

Through the IMMPaCt program, CDC is a board member of the Network for Sustained Elimination of Iodine Deficiency. The Network's mandate is to support national efforts to eliminate iodine deficiency — and to sustain elimination — by promoting collaboration among public, private, and civic organizations. CDC's goal is to work in collaboration with the Network to advocate for, and create the conditions necessary to sustain the national elimination of iodine deficiency. CDC contributes expertise specifically in the areas of field epidemiology, laboratory analysis, surveillance techniques.

The Micronutrient Initiative (MI)

http://www.micronutrient.org*

Kiwanis International and Sister Cities International

http://www.kiwanis.org/*
http://www.sister-cities.org*

The CDC is working in partnership with Kiwanis International and Sister Cities International to organize a grass roots campaign to increase the supply and demand for micronutrient-rich foods in developing countries.

This grass roots approach to improving micronutrient status "One City At A Time" was pioneered by USAID and Emory University in 1999. The grass roots campaign, currently being continued as a CDC IMMPaCt program initiative, is made up of local governments, non-profit institutions, national and multinational food companies, public sector agencies, as well as other civic groups in the United States and abroad.

Initially, these public-private collaborations will strengthen the resource base for eliminating micronutrient malnutrition in at least two pilot countries (e.g., the Philippines and Ukraine). This will create a sustainable and feasible strategy for solving the problem of micronutrient malnutrition.

Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University

http://www.sph.emory.edu*

The IMMPaCt program works closely with a number of staff from the Departments of International Health and Epidemiology in the Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University.

For example

• Employing of two Emory staff members as part-time advisers on policy, technical issues, and epidemiology for IMMPaCt.
• Participation of IMMPaCt staff on the thesis committee for Emory International Health MPH students.

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