Innovation Resources

Executive Memos and Directives and Other Federal Resources
- American Innovation and Competiveness Act (AICA)external icon
- CDC Health Information Innovation Consortium (CHIIC)
- HHS Open Government Planpdf iconexternal icon
- OMB Open Government
- US Government Accountability Office (US GAO) Report to Congressional Committees – Open Innovationexternal icon
Crowdsourcing and Citizen Science
- Crowdsourcing and Citizen Science at the CDCpdf icon
- White House Memo to report Citizen Sciencepdf icon
- CitizenScience.govexternal icon
- Other Crowdsourcing and Citizen Science websites
Human Centered Design Training
- Stanford d.school’s Virtual Crash Course in Design Thinkingexternal icon (free video tutorial)
- IDEO.ORG’s Field Guide to Human Centered Designexternal icon (free download)
- +ACUMEN’s Design Kit: The Course for Human-Centered Designexternal icon (free online course—check for future dates)
- Entrepreneurial design principles and methods (free online course)external icon
- HHS Idea Lab (HHS Ignite) (for DHHS employees)external icon
- Office of Personnel Management’s Fundamentals of Human-Centered Designexternal icon
Funding Opportunities
- CDC SBIR
- NIH/CDC/FDA SBIRexternal icon
- HHS Idea Lab (HHS Innovates) and HHS Ventures (for DHHS employees)external icon
- CDC Innovation Fund (intramural funds for CDC Employees)
Page last reviewed: October 11, 2017
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