CDC Priorities

Health Equity Guiding Principles for Inclusive Communication

CDC’s Health Equity Guiding Principles for Inclusive Communication emphasize the importance of addressing all people inclusively and respectfully. These principles are intended to help public health professionals, particularly health communicators, within and outside of CDC ensure their communication products and strategies adapt to the specific cultural, linguistic, environmental, and historical situation of each population or audience of focus. CDC encourages all public health professionals and partners at the federal, state, and local levels to apply these principles across their public health communication work.

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