Press Release

HHS funds to bolster public health emergency preparedness nationwide

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services awarded more than $613 million to strengthen all-hazards emergency preparedness in the 50 states, four large metropolitan areas, and eight U.S. territories and Pacific island areas.

HHS’ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention administers the Public Health Emergency Preparedness (PHEP) cooperative agreement, which supports state, local, and territorial health departments in demonstrating measurable and sustainable progress toward achieving 15 public health preparedness capabilities and other activities that promote safer and more resilient communities.  

“State and local public health departments have made tremendous advances in public health preparedness and response since the 9-11 terrorist attacks. The terrorist attacks highlighted the importance of health security and the need to expand the federal government’s investments in state and local public health preparedness,” said Ali S. Khan, M.D., the director of CDC’s Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response, which oversees the PHEP cooperative agreement. “These funds work to secure the nation from all public health threats.”

CDC’s recent state preparedness report indicates that much progress has been made to build and strengthen national public health preparedness and response capabilities in laboratory testing capacities and state capacities to receive, distribute, and dispense medical assets from CDC’s Strategic National Stockpile and other sources. More information is available at http://emergency.cdc.gov/publications/2010phprep/.

CDC’s new PHEP cooperative agreement focuses on advancing public health preparedness for public health laboratory testing, public health surveillance and epidemiological investigation, community preparedness, medical countermeasure dispensing, responder safety and health, emergency operations coordination, emergency public information and warning, and other capabilities.

The PHEP cooperative agreement also addresses lessons learned during the recent large-scale incidents like the H1N1 influenza pandemic response, by encouraging health departments to develop and implement strategies for effective state and local emergency response.  In addition, the cooperative agreement provides funding to 10 urban areas as a one-year pilot program for higher population areas to develop public health, medical, mental/behavioral risk assessments and risk mitigation strategies.

Other funding for state and local medical preparedness activities was released in July by HHS’ Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR). ASPR awarded more than $352 in Hospital Preparedness Program grants to support preparedness capabilities, including medical surge, for hospitals and health care facilities. More information is available at http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2011pres/07/20110701a.html.

CDC Public Health Emergency Preparedness (PHEP)
Cooperative Agreement
Fiscal Year 2011 Funding

Awardee	FY 2011 Total Funding Available
Alabama	$8,633,983
Alaska	$5,177,600
American Samoa	$374,003
Arizona	$11,894,861
Arkansas	$6,469,981
California	$41,661,534
Chicago	$10,409,823
Colorado	$9,397,930
Connecticut	$7,553,479
Delaware	$5,422,932
District of Columbia	$6,730,903
Florida	$27,687,829
Georgia	$15,653,814
Guam	$501,200
Hawaii	$5,260,290
Idaho	$5,181,907
Illinois	$16,845,953
Indiana	$11,146,909
Iowa	$6,595,869
Kansas	$6,595,020
Kentucky	$8,275,695
Los Angeles County	$20,404,916
Louisiana	$8,632,297
Maine	$5,206,160
Marshall Islands	$372,756
Maryland	$11,057,196
Massachusetts	$13,459,602
Michigan	$16,543,509
Micronesia	$421,144
Minnesota	$10,842,711
Mississippi	$6,565,242
Missouri	$10,717,722
Montana	$5,178,911
Nebraska	$5,234,954
Nevada	$6,585,802
New Hampshire	$5,398,877
New Jersey	$16,184,853
New Mexico	$6,526,120
New York	$19,284,669
New York  City	$19,243,835
North Carolina	$14,020,450
North Dakota	$5,180,405
Northern Mariana Islands	$358,054
Ohio	$17,618,925
Oklahoma	$7,509,542
Oregon	$7,829,790
Palau	$323,450
Pennsylvania	$19,774,638
Puerto Rico	$7,473,561
Rhode Island	$5,302,058
South Carolina	$9,308,851
South Dakota	$5,169,600
Tennessee	$10,845,628
Texas	$37,545,665
Utah	$6,464,082
Vermont	$5,192,031
Virgin Islands (U.S.)	$423,822
Virginia	$14,483,987
Washington	$11,711,066
West Virginia	$5,336,731
Wisconsin	$11,235,615
Wyoming	$5,169,600
TOTAL FY 2011 PHEP FUNDING	$613,610,342

 

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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES