Prevention and Public Health Fund
In the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2012, Congress directed HHS to provide information on activities and programs supported with resources from the Prevention and Public Health Fund. Through this website, HHS will provide information on the FY 2012 planned use of funds, funding opportunities, and the recipients of awards. Information will be posted as it becomes available.
FY 2012 Allocation of Funds
The following table reflects the planned use of Prevention and Public Health Fund resources in fiscal year 2012. The table includes the name of the agency receiving funds, the activity to be supported, and the program or activity funding level. The effective transfer date of funds will be posted once the process of transferring of funds to the various agencies is completed.
FY 2012 Prevention and Public Health Fund
(dollars in millions)
Agency | Activity or Program | Allocation | Planned Uses of Funds |
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ACL | Chronic Disease Self-Management Program | 10.000 | To award competitive grants to selected states to help older adults and adults with disabilities cope with their chronic conditions by providing access to evidence-based chronic disease self-management programs, and also to assist states develop sustainability plans to continue providing these programs after the grant period ends. |
ACL | Alzheimer's Disease Prevention Education and Outreach | 4.000 | To design and carry out an outreach and education initiative. |
ACL | Elder Justice | 6.000 | To test and evaluate interventions designed to prevent elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation. |
AHRQ | Clinical Preventive Services Research | 5.000 | To continue support for Centers for Excellence in Clinical Preventive Services which support the HHS National Prevention Strategy by developing evidence around the most efficient and effective ways primary care health systems can deliver clinical preventive services. |
AHRQ | Clinical Preventive Services Task Force | 7.000 | To maximize the quality and effectiveness of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force by providing scientific, technical and administrative support. |
CDC | Community Guide | 10.000 | To provide evidence-based findings and recommendations about effective public health interventions and policies to improve health and promote safety |
CDC | Prevention Research Centers | 10.000 | The purpose of the centers is to help alter the individual behaviors and community environmental factors that put people at risk for the leading causes of death and disability—chronic diseases, such as cancer, heart disease, and diabetes. |
CDC | Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity (NPAO) State Programs | 10.000 | To improve the health of places where Americans live, work, learn, and play by supporting comprehensive efforts to address obesity and other chronic diseases through a variety of evidence-based nutrition and physical activity strategies. |
CDC | National Diabetes Prevention Program | 10.000 | To expand CDC’s National Diabetes Prevention Program to support the establishment of evidence-based lifestyle change programs in underserved communities to prevent type 2 diabetes in people with prediabetes. |
CDC | Viral Hepatitis | 10.000 | To expand identification of those chronically infected persons who do not know their status and their referral to medical care, particularly focusing on groups disproportionately affected by chronic hepatitis B and hepatitis C; and to identify and disseminate best practices for screening and the prompt linkage to needed medical management and treatment. |
CDC | Public Health Workforce | 25.000 | To help to ensure a prepared, diverse, sustainable public health workforce by increasing the number of State and local public health professionals (e.g., epidemiologists, public health managers, informaticians) who are trained through CDC-sponsored fellowships. |
CDC | National Public Health Improvement Initiative (NPHII) | 40.200 | To systematically increase the capacity of public health departments to detect and respond to public health events requiring highly coordinated interventions to improve and/or sustain the performance (efficiency/effectiveness) of public health organizations, systems, practices, and essential services. |
CDC | State Healthcare Associated Infections (HAI) Prevention | 11.750 | To fund health departments in healthcare-associated infection (HAI) prevention efforts within their States by expanding State prevention activities and accelerating electronic reporting to detect HAIs at the State level. |
CDC | Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity (ELC/EIP) | 40.000 | To enhance the ability of State, local, and territorial Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity and Emerging Infections Program grantees to strengthen and integrate capacity for detecting and responding to infectious diseases and other public health threats. |
CDC | Breastfeeding Promotion and Support | 7.050 | This program will fund community initiatives to support breastfeeding mothers and support hospitals in promoting breastfeeding. |
CDC | Early Child Care and Education Obesity Prevention Programs | 5.000 | This is a collaborative effort to promote children’s health by encouraging and supporting healthier physical activity and nutrition practices. |
CDC | Community Transformation Grants | 226.000 | This program will support community-level efforts to reduce chronic diseases such as heart disease, cancer, stroke, and diabetes. |
CDC | Immunization | 190.000 | The objective of this program is to modernize the public health immunization infrastructure to increase vaccination coverage among children, adolescents, and adults. |
CDC | REACH: Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health | 40.000 | To support community coalitions that design, implement, evaluate, and disseminate community-driven strategies to eliminate health disparities in key health areas. |
CDC | Tobacco Use Prevention | 83.000 | To raise awareness and shift key attitudes and beliefs about the harms of tobacco use and exposure to secondhand smoke in areas of the country with some of the highest rates of tobacco use prevalence. |
CDC | Healthcare Surveillance/ Health Statistics | 35.000 | To expand the availability of data for tracking the provision, use, effectiveness, and impact of primary and secondary preventive healthcare services and to expand the capacity of CDC and its health department partners to use these data for such tracking. |
CDC | Environmental Public Health Tracking | 35.000 | The purpose of the program is to establish and maintain a nationwide tracking network to collect, integrate, analyze and translate health and environmental data for use in public health practice. |
CDC | National Prevention Strategy | 1.000 | To support and implement the National Prevention Strategy which aims to guide our nation in the most effective and achievable means for improving health and well-being. |
CDC | Workplace Health | 10.000 | To engage and recruit employers and lead them through the process of building a core workplace health program. |
CDC | Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening | 10.000 | To provide breast and cervical cancer screening services to low-income, uninsured and underinsure women. |
HRSA | Public Health Workforce Development | 23.864 | To support Public Health Training Centers which will continue to collaborate with partners to assess health workforce development needs and provide graduate or specialized training in public health in the areas of preventive medicine, health promotion and disease prevention, including continuing education sessions designed to meet the public health workforce development needs. |
HRSA | Public Health Traineeships | 1.136 | To increase the number of professionsals trained in public health fields of which there is a shortage, including epidemiology, environmental health, biostatistics, teoxicology, nutrition, and maternal health by awarding grants to schools to provide traineeships to students at the master's and doctoral level. |
HRSA | Mental Health Training | 10.000 | To support grants to health professions programs for the recruitment and training of individuals in behavioral health professions, including social work and psychology. |
HRSA | Alzheimer's Disease Prevention Education and Outreach | 2.000 | To expand the work of the Geriatric Education Centers to support outreach and education to enhance healthcare providers’ knowledge of the disease, improve detection and early intervention, and improve care for people with the disease and their caregivers. |
SAMHSA | Primary Behavioral Health Care Integration | 35.000 | To establish projects for the provision of coordinated and integrated services to special populations through the co-location of primary and specialty care services in community-based mental and behavioral health settings. |
SAMHSA | Suicide Prevention | 10.000 | To support the Garrett Lee Smith (GLS) State/Tribal grants, GLS-Campus grant programs, National Suicide Prevention Lifeline program, and the Suicide Prevention Resource Center grant. |
SAMHSA | Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment | 25.000 | To integrate screening, brief intervention, referral, and treatment services within general medical and primary care settings. |
SAMHSA | SAMHSA Health Surveillance | 18.000 | To support critical behavioral health data systems, national surveys, and surveillance activities. |
SAMHSA | Prescription Drug Monitoring Integration and Interoperability Expansion | 4.000 | To improve real-time access to Prescription Drug Monitoring Program data by integrating into existing technologies, like Electronic Health Records, and to expand interoperability to multiple States in order to reduce the nature, scope, and extent of prescription drug abuse. |
ASPA | Tobacco Media Activities | 10.000 | To prevent and reduce tobacco use and to ensure program integrity and responsible stewardship of Federal funds. |
ASPA | Prevention Education and Outreach | 20.000 | To generate broad awareness of preventive benefits and encourage people to utilize them for better health. |
Background
The Affordable Care Act established the Prevention and Public Health Fund to provide expanded and sustained national investments in prevention and public health, to improve health outcomes, and to enhance health care quality. To date, the Fund has invested in a broad range of evidence-based activities including community and clinical prevention initiatives; research, surveillance and tracking; public health infrastructure; immunizations and screenings; tobacco prevention; and public health workforce and training. To find out more about past investments from the Prevention Fund, visit http://www.healthcare.gov/news/factsheets/2011/02/prevention02092011b.html
Funding Opportunity Announcements, Requests for Proposals, and Other Funding Solicitations
Learn more about funding opportunity announcements, requests for proposals, and other funding solicitations for activities funded from the Prevention and Public Health Fund. Announcements will be posted as they are issued.