Guidelines and Recommendations

This website is part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's efforts to advance health equity through research, programs, and partnerships.

CDC’s Health Equity Guiding Principles for Inclusive Communication emphasize the importance of addressing all people inclusively and respectfully.

This toolkit, and accompanying Provider Tools resource, offer help with implementing the American Cancer Society cancer survivorship care guidelines for colorectal, head and neck and prostate cancers and the American Cancer Society/American Society of Clinical Oncology cancer survivorship care…

This report augments (i.e., updates and summarizes) previously published recommendations from CDC regarding testing for HCV infection in the United States (Smith BD, Morgan RL, Beckett GA, et al. Recommendations for the identification of chronic hepatitis C virus infection among persons born during…

The Clear Communication Index (Index) provides a set of research-based criteria to develop and assess public communication products. The Index supports the efforts of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to comply with the Plain Writing Act of 2010 and achieve goals set forth in the…

A practical, non-prescriptive tool, the evaluation framework summarizes and organizes the steps and standards for effective program evaluation.

Learn four things you can do to support reaching colorectal cancer screening rates of 80% and higher in LGBT communities.

Here are some essential interventions public health professionals can implement that will address the burden of viral hepatitis, as presented in the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine’s “A National Strategy for the Elimination of Hepatitis B and C: Phase Two Report.”

This section of the Cancer Coalition Basics provides Comprehensive Cancer Control (CCC) coalitions with guidance and resources on funding, managing resources and sustaining the coalition.

This section of the Cancer Coalition Basics summarizes ways that comprehensive cancer control (CCC) coalitions can implement their state's cancer control plan goals.