Epilepsy Foundation Of America

Public health, education, and awareness - provides educational and supporting services that create and promote public awareness surrounding epilepsy. The program utilizes traditional and digital media channels including social media and through the direct mail program which serve the dual purpose of raising funds for the foundation and increasing awareness of the foundation's cause. The foundation educates through engagement with media sources, and partnerships with other non-profits and professional and government organizations. In addition, the foundation established the epilepsy learning healthcare system (elhs) network, which is a public health initiative to drive quality health services research to improve medical outcomes for people with epilepsy.

Research, innovation, and new therapies - accelerates the development of innovative therapies, prevention, and cures for all forms of epilepsies, and seeks to address the gap in the research and commercialization continuum. The main objective is to develop an epilepsy research ecosystem that covers all parts of therapy, from idea to market. The foundation's research initiatives include: innovation programs that test new ideas and follow new research leads and engagement programs that improve communication between people with epilepsy, their families, advocates, researchers, and investors. Digital tools that support research infrastructure. Funding that supports young researchers to bring their ideas to life. Practice solutions to eradicate sudden and unexpected death in epilepsy (sudep).