Deadline: 31-Jul-2025
The Preventive Health and Health Services (PHHS) Block Grant Program allows recipients to address their own unique public health needs and challenges with evidence based, innovative and community-driven methods.
As part of the overall effort to reduce the burden of disease and associated risk factors, and to build, improve, and sustain associated public health infrastructure, the Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grant provides resources to support prioritized public health objectives. The grant is used to fill funding gaps in programs that deal with leading causes of death and disabilities and provides the ability to respond rapidly to emerging health issues while supporting agency-wide priorities that are also important to state, tribal, local, and territorial health departments.
Goals
- This program enables recipients to implement innovative and community-driven methods that meet their priority public health needs.
- Examples include, but are not limited to:
- Addressing emerging health issues and gaps
- Decreasing premature death and disabilities by focusing on the leading preventable risk factors
- Supporting local programs to achieve healthy communities
- Establishing data and surveillance systems to monitor the health status of targeted population(s)
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $ 162,000,000
Duration
- Period of Performance: October 1, 2024 – September 30, 2026.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible Applicants
- This program provides all 50 US states (State Health Departments), the District of Columbia, 2 American Indian Tribes (Santee Sioux; Kickapoo Tribe, KS), 5 U.S. Territories (Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Guam, Republic of the Marshall Islands, Republic of Palau) and 3 Freely Associated States (Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands, American Samoa) as identified in the authorizing statute with funding to address their own unique public health needs and challenges with innovative and locally defined methods.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.