About the Alliance
Through grants to five organizations and a National Program Office (Noreen M. Clark, PhD, Director), the Merck Company Foundation supports comprehensive, multi-faceted, community-based programs that address the key factors to reduce disparities and improve health outcomes for people living with diabetes.
The Diabetes Alliance is working to improve communication between patients and health care providers. Effective communication among providers, patients and their family members is a critical component of efforts to promote optimal care outcomes, enhance prevention and management of diabetes and reduce disparities in care.
The Alliance efforts go beyond the clinical setting and are reaching people where they spend most of their time and make most of the decisions that affect their health, such as community settings and homes.




