What the Recommendations of the Community Health Promotion Expert Panel Mean to NCCDPHP Divisions and Programs

It was our pleasure to review and respond to the Recommendations for Future Efforts in Community Health Promotion: Report of the National Expert Panel on Community Health Promotion (1). Although we cannot speak for all the divisions and programs within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP), we both have had more than 10 years of experience working in the broad areas of community health promotion at various levels in NCCDPHP. We were grateful to be asked to be observers of the discussions among members of the expert panel. Reading the recommendations caused us to recall important discussions that occurred in the 1990s concerning health education and research as well as community capacity related to community health promotion.