Greater than $176 million has been allotted by the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention (CDC) to help 48 public well being companions to strengthen public well being techniques.
CDC’s aim with the Nationwide Companions Cooperative Settlement is to fund organizations which have the potential, experience, assets, and nationwide attain to help public well being infrastructure and workforce wants. The funding mechanism started in 2008 and since that point, CDC has awarded greater than $2.5 billion in funding to greater than 70 public well being companions.
As a part of the settlement, the recipient organizations will obtain the $176 million in funding for the primary 12 months of a 5-year cycle. This funding will assist companions improve the information, ability, and talent of the general public well being workforce to ship important providers, enhance organizational and techniques capability and functionality constructing to handle well being priorities, and advance the nation’s public well being infrastructure and efficiency.
“By working along with our valued companions, we are able to construct a resilient public well being system able to addressing evolving challenges,” stated Leslie Ann Dauphin, P.hD., director of CDC’s Public Well being Infrastructure Heart, in a press release. “These awards will assist construct a powerful public well being infrastructure with enhanced means to detect and management illnesses, promote wholesome life, and supply important healthcare providers to all communities.”
One of many recipients is Cornell College. “This partnership is important as a result of it amplifies our collective impacts on urgent public well being challenges in New York State and across the nation,” stated Alexander Travis, V.M.D., Ph.D., director of Cornell Public Well being and founding chair of the Division of Public and Ecosystem Well being, in a press release.
Gen Meredith, O.T.R., Dr.P.H., M.P.H., affiliate director of Cornell Public Well being, famous that this is a vital growth given the a long time of stagnant funding that has led to overstrained public well being infrastructure and capabilities. “The shared funding in public well being techniques strengthening in the course of the COVID-19 emergency response was encouraging, and lengthy overdue,” she stated in a press release. “It’s inspiring to see the CDC is dedicated to extending these investments in order that we aren’t solely ready for what the long run would possibly carry, however are additionally in a position to amplify the core tenets of public well being in ways in which acknowledge and deal with well being disparities.”
Earlier recipients used Nationwide Companions Cooperative Settlement funds to help numerous public well being initiatives, equivalent to:
• Growing a rural public well being curriculum for public well being professionals and college students interested by bettering their abilities in rural public well being competencies (e.g., social determinants of well being in rural communities and discovering options to rural well being disparities).
• Strengthening the infrastructure and capability of state, territorial, and native well being departments to analyze, analyze, and share knowledge on drug overdoses to boost surveillance efforts.
• Making a instrument and finest practices to assist community-serving organizations work with colleges and fogeys to enhance complete help for adolescent psychological well being.
