National Disability Navigator Resource Collaborative
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Karl Cooper Joins AAHD as Project Associate for National Disability Navigator Resource Collaborative
An attorney and disability advocate, Karl Cooper has spent most of his career addressing the needs of people with disabilities. Since October 2013, he has been AAHD’s Project Associate for the National Disability Navigator Resource Collaborative (NDNRC). He provides technical assistance to navigators and other enrollment specialists as they help people with disabilities obtain health […]
UAB – NCHPAD & Lakeshore Foundation
UAB – NCHPAD 2016-2021 The American Association on Health and Disability will be collaborating with the National Center on Health, Physical Activity and Disability (NCHPAD) on a five year cooperative agreement funded by the CDC, National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities. Reversing the disproportionately higher rates of obesity among children and adults with disability […]
Disability Research and Dissemination Center
The Disability Research and Dissemination Center (DRDC) was formed in 2012 through a cooperative agreement with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The aim of the center was to expand the capacity of the CDC’s National Center for Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities (NCBDDD). DRDC aimed to: Identify and fund the best research […]
National Quality Forum
The National Quality Forum (NQF) builds consensus on national priorities and goals for performance improvement. Under contract with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the NQF Measure Applications Partnership (MAP) establishes a portfolio of quality measures to report and improve healthcare quality in all HHS funded programs. On July 1, 2015, Clarke Ross […]
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CDC Programs
CDC, NCBDDD (October 2012-September 2017) Coordinating Center for Research and Training to Promote the Health of People with Developmental and Other Disabilities AAHD and our partners at University of South Carolina (USC) and State University of New York Update Medical University (SUNY-UMC) have been awarded a cooperative agreement from the Centers for Disease Control and […]
Disability Statistics
Recommended disability data resources for health researchers and advocates: Annual Disability Statistics Collection The Annual Disability Statistics Compendium, Annual Report on People With Disabilities, the Build Your Own Statistics tool, and infographics gather disability statistics published by many federal agencies into one place. Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) BRFSS is the nation’s premier system […]