Education Program (Title) of the Year

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is launching a five-year, nationwide professional-development project for health education teachers, a measure the agency deems critical toward enhancing school-based HIV prevention, nutrition, and physical fitness programs. The first order of business for this new endeavor? Creating the most unnecessarily lengthy and redundant program moniker: The "Enhancing Professional Development Among Education Agency Personnel and Others Who Work With Youth to Deliver Effective Education for Reducing Health Risk Behaviors Among Youth" initiative.

The agency on Tuesday began soliciting potential contractors to carry out the "Enhancing, etc., etc., etc." program. CDC did not disclose the estimated cost of outsourcing this initiative to a U.S. nongovernmental organization.