AcademyHealth

Washington, DC

$70,000—Building the field of public health systems research (for 18 months).
ID 50908

University of California, Los Angeles, Center for Health Policy Research

Los Angeles, CA

$14,087—Meeting of public health experts to identify key local-level health information issues (for 5 months).
ID 50540

Communications Projects

Multiple Contractors

$29,945—Meeting of public health experts to identify key local-level health information issues (for 10 months).
ID 50418

$30,000—Convening a meeting to explore the applicability of performance improvement concepts and processes to public health (for 6 months).
ID 50892

$50,000—Public health agency accreditation: objectives, process, implications and consequences (for 6 months).
ID 51173

$85,000—Supplemental funding for a meeting on public health agency accreditation (for 6 months).
ID 52159

$15,000—Supplemental funding for a meeting to explore the applicability of performance improvement concepts and processes to public health (for 6 months).
ID 52284

Christopher R. Conte

Silver Springs, MD

$15,000—Analysis and synthesis of 22 proposals on bridging the gap between academic public health and practice (for 5 months).
ID 50889

$34,925—Studying the impact of state budget cuts and bioterrorism preparedness funds on public health agencies (for 6 months).
ID 50891

Lawrence S. Lewin

Washington, DC

$30,000—Assisting Partnership for Prevention in implementing a plan to increase effectiveness of disease prevention and health promotion policies (for 3 months).
ID 50008

National Association of County and City Health Officials

Washington, DC

$200,000—Developing a common operational definition for local governmental public health agencies (for 1 year).
ID 50045

$60,000—Communicating a common operational definition for local governmental public health agencies (for 4 months).
ID 52324

Partnership for Prevention

Washington, DC

$350,000—Increasing the effectiveness of disease prevention and health promotion policies (for 1 year).
ID 50161

Public Health Informatics Training Program

Program to use fellowship training in public health informatics as a strategy to catalyze the development of the field and create a sustainable pipeline of future leaders in public health informatics.

• Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc.

  Bethesda, MD

  $3,680,000—(4 years).
  ID 52098

Task Force for Child Survival Inc.

Decatur, GA

$3,200,000—Developing a new paradigm for the public health information infrastructure (2 years).
ID 46085

Trust for America’s Health

Washington, DC

$100,000—Communications and advocacy toolkit and story bank for public health issues (for 1 year).
ID 52160

$466,107—Building sustainable advocacy capacity for improving the nation’s public health system (for 5 months).
ID 52412

Turning Point: Collaborating for a New Century in Public Health

Program to transform and strengthen the public health infrastructure so that states, local communities and their public health agencies may respond to the challenge to protect and improve the public’s health in the 21st century.

• University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine

  Seattle, WA

  $972,464—Technical assistance and direction for Turning Point (1 year).
  ID 47896

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