The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will host the 20th National Conference on Chronic Disease Prevention and Control: Cultivating Healthy Communities. The 20th National Conference on Chronic Disease Prevention and Control will be celebrating two decades of extraordinary progress in the prevention and control of chronic diseases and drawing on these successes to accelerate progress over the next 20 years. Conference presenters will share relevant information on innovations in science, policy, community interventions, health marketing, and information technology that support healthy lifestyles and cultivate healthy communities. Through extensive networking opportunities, participants will learn successful chronic disease prevention efforts, best practices, and effective intervention techniques used by their colleagues and challenges as we move into the next decade of health system transformation.

Conference Goal
The goal of the 20th National Conference on Chronic Disease Prevention and Control is to advance the development of healthy communities and eliminate health disparities by:

• Celebrating two decades of extraordinary progress against chronic diseases and drawing on this success to accelerate progress for the next 20 years.
• Heightening awareness of the importance of chronic disease prevention, health promotion, and health equity at the national, state, territorial, tribal, and community levels, and building urgency for action.
• Promoting innovations in science translation, policy, community interventions, health communication and education, and information science that support health-enhancing environments.
• Fostering multidisciplinary, multisectoral, and participatory approaches to put prevention principles into practice, especially by engaging communities experiencing the greatest health-related disparities.

Conference Objectives
By the end of this conference, participants will:

• Identify at least two major policies and environmental changes that have had significant impact on public health advances in cultivating healthy communities and in reducing population-level morbidity, mortality, and/or health-related disparities during the past 20 years.
• Describe at least two major disease prevention and health promotion challenges facing the nation over the next 20 years and describe potential solutions to those challenges at the national, state, territorial, tribal, and/or local levels.
• Explain at least two new or emerging innovations in prevention science, policies, community interventions, health communication and education programs, or information science that can be applied in participants� states or local communities in the next year that will promote healthy behaviors and/or health-enhancing community environments.
• Commit to advancing one or more of the Conference Calls to Action.