This notice announces the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) intent to fund the Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grant applications in Federal Fiscal Year 2023, as directed by Public Law 115-245, Department of Defense and Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriation Act, 2019 and Continuing Appropriations Act, 2019.
Donor Name: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
State: All States
County: All Counties
U.S. Territories: Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianna Islands, American Samoa, Guam
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 07/01/2023
Size of the Grant: $146,000,000
Details:
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.
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 priorities.
- 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
Funding Information
The total approximate funding will be $146,000,000.
Eligible Applicants
- State governments
Additional Information on Eligibility
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.