What are the OMHD Core Functions?

4. Supporting internal and external partnerships to advance the science, practice, and workforce for eliminating health disparities inside and outside CDC

-- Maintaining critical linkages with federal partners including OS/HHS and representing CDC on related scientific and policy committees

-- Establishing external advisory capacity and internal advisory and action capacity  

-- Coordinating CDC-wide minority health and health disparities elimination initiatives

5. Synthesizing, disseminating, and encouraging use of scientific evidence about effective interventions to achieve health disparities elimination outcomes

-- Stimulating innovation in science and practice (idea incubators, change management, Team B)

-- Providing decision support to the Executive Leadership Board (ELB) in allocating CDC resources to agency-wide programs of surveillance, research, intervention, and evaluation

Source: Functional Plan for CDC’s Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities (OMHD)