Direct Relief and The Pfizer Foundation today announced the third cohort of the Innovation Awards in Community Health, supporting infectious disease prevention and management in underserved communities. Through $4.5 million in grants over two years, the program will support 16 U.S. safety-net community health organizations across 11 states, expanding access to prevention, education, screening, testing, treatment, and care. Now in its fifth year, the program has funded efforts that reached more than 1.3 million people and delivered more than 519,000 vaccinations. This new cohort builds on that impact, supporting frontline health providers advancing locally driven solutions to address persistent public health challenges, including HIV, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), hepatitis, tuberculosis (TB), respiratory illness, and vaccine-preventable infectious diseases.…