Deadline: 1-Jul-23
The Centers for Disease Control CSTLTS is seeking applications for the Preventive Health and Health Services (PHHS) Block Grant Program to allow recipients to address their own unique public health needs and challenges with innovative and community-driven methods.
Goals
- This program enables recipients to implement innovative and community-driven methods that meet their priority public health needs. Recipients set their own goals and program objectives and implement local strategies to address Healthy People 2030 (http://www.healthypeople.gov) priorities. Examples include, but are not limited to:
- Address emerging health issues and gaps
- Decrease premature death and disabilities by focusing on the leading preventable risk factors
- Work to achieve health equity and eliminate health disparities by addressing the social determinants of health
- Support local programs to achieve healthy communties
- Establish data and surveillance systems to monitor the health status of targeted population CDC is currently tracking use of block grant funding across all recipients using the following key indictors:
- Improve the ability to collect essential data
- Increase the efficiency and effectiveness of operations, programs, and services
- Address emerging public health needs
- Implement public health interventions that are known to work
CDC Project Description
- The Preventive Health and Health Services (PHHS) Block Grant Program allows recipients to address their own unique public health needs and challenges with innovative and community driven methods.
- Recipients set their own goals and program objectives and implement local strategies to address Healthy People 2030 priorities.
CDC Project Purposes
- As part of the overall effort to reduce the burden of disease and associated risk factors, and to build and improve associated public health infrastructure, the Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grant provides resources to support prioritized public health objectives, to fill funding gaps in programs that deal with leading causes of death and disabilities and 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.
Funding Information
- Approximate Current Fiscal Year Funding: $146,000,000
- Approximate Number of Awards: 61
- Fiscal Year Funds: 2023
- Application Due Date: July 1, 2023
- Estimated Award Date (Issue Date): September 1, 2023
- Budget Period: October 1, 2022- September 30, 2024
- Period of Performance: October 1, 2022 – September 30, 2024
Eligibility Criteria
- This program provides all 50 states, the District of Columbia, 2 American Indian Tribes, 5 U.S. Territories, and 3 Freely Associated States 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.