Public Health
AcademyHealth
Washington, DC
Support for the annual public health services research interest group meeting.
$100,000
(18 months)
ID 57393
American Cancer Society Inc.
Atlanta, GA
Program activities for the 13th World Conference on Tobacco OR Health.
$50,000
(1 year)
ID 56681
Association of State and Territorial Health Officials
Washington, DC
Identifying the needs of state health officials on legislative matters.
$165,278
(7 months)
ID 58550
Burness Communications, Inc.
Bethesda, MD
Strategic communications for the Foundation's Public Health program area.
$95,700
(1 year)
ID 58202
Common Ground: Transforming Public Health Information Systems
To support collaborative processes among state and local public health departments to advance the use of information systems to support two different programmatic areas: preparedness and chronic disease.
Program Sites
State of Alaska Department of Health & Social Services
Juneau, AK
$29,700
(15 months)
ID 59781
City of Austin Health and Human Services Department
Austin, TX
$30,000
(15 months)
ID 59784
State of California, Health and Human Services Agency
Sacramento, CA
$600,000
(3 years)
ID 59759
Children's Hospital Corporation
Boston, MA
$599,877
(3 years)
ID 59736
Coconino County Health Department
Flagstaff, AZ
$509,235
(3 years)
ID 59780
Genesee County Health Department
Flint, MI
$30,000
(15 months)
ID 59787
Health and Hospital Corporation of Marion County
Indianapolis, IN
$584,754
(3 years)
ID 59734
Health Research Incorporated
Rensselaer, NY
$600,000
(3 years)
ID 59735
Kane County Health Department
Aurora, IL
$29,649
(15 months)
ID 59788
Kitsap County Health District
Bremerton, WA
$598,904
(3 years)
ID 59773
Louisiana Public Health Institute
New Orleans, LA
$599,944
(3 years)
ID 59776
Louisville/Jefferson County Metro Government
Louisville, KY
$29,533
(15 months)
ID 59793
Madison County Health Department
Wampsville, NY
$11,239
(15 months)
ID 59782
Mahoning County District Board of Health
Youngstown, OH
$19,872
(15 months)
ID 59783
State of Maine Department of Health and Human Services
Augusta, ME
$595,656
(3 years)
ID 59729
Maricopa County Department of Public Health
Phoenix, AZ
$29,870
(15 months)
ID 59790
Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County
Nashville, TN
$599,872
(3 years)
ID 59731
State of Minnesota Department of Health
St. Paul, MN
$588,267
(3 years)
ID 59777
State of Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services
Jefferson City, MO
$600,000
(3 years)
ID 59779
Monroe County Health Department
Monroe, MI
$29,993
(15 months)
ID 59792
State of Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services
Helena, MT
$25,627
(15 months)
ID 59796
Multnomah County Health Department
Portland, OR
$29,919
(15 months)
ID 59797
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC
$29,770
(15 months)
ID 59799
Public Health Authority of Cabarrus County
Kannapolis, NC
$598,756
(3 years)
ID 59756
State of Rhode Island Department of Health
Providence, RI
$522,623
(3 years)
ID 59767
County of Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, CA
$29,996
(15 months)
ID 59801
Sonoma County Department of Health Services
Santa Rosa, CA
$18,186
(15 months)
ID 59786
State of South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control
Columbia, SC
$600,000
(3 years)
ID 59764
Spokane Regional Health District
Spokane, WA
$600,000
(3 years)
ID 59732
Summit County Board of Health
Coalville, UT
$30,000
(15 months)
ID 59804
State of Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services
Madison, WI
$600,000
(3 years)
ID 59761
Other Program Activities
Task Force for Child Survival and Development Inc.
Decatur, GA
Technical assistance and direction for Common Ground.
$866,046
(1 year)
ID 57287
Communications Projects
Multiple Contractors
Consulting and meeting costs for the Foundation's Public Health program area.
$50,000
(7 months)
ID 57463
Meeting on quality improvement in public health in conjunction with the Multistate Learning Collaborative for Public Health meeting.
$216,100
(1 year)
ID 58773
Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists
Atlanta, GA
Addressing legal areas related to the interpretation of health information privacy rules for public health practice and research.
$115,015
(15 months)
ID 58480
Georgetown University
Washington, DC
Studying the effects of public housing on children's health.
$25,000
(1 year)
ID 59496
Global Health Solutions Inc.
Decatur, GA
Developing a new paradigm for the public health information infrastructure.
$2,500,000
(3 years)
ID 58420
Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government
Cambridge, MA
Developing and validating a crisis leadership preparedness scale to measure leadership ability in a public health crisis.
$45,065
(1 month)
ID 58877
Harvard University School of Public Health
Boston, MA
Improving cooperation among federal, state and local leaders when responding to natural and man-made disasters.
$31,473
(1 month)
ID 58902
The Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University
New York, NY
Study on the roles of city and state departments of public health during Hurricane Katrina.
$104,775
(1 year)
ID 57199
Sponsorship of the Allan Rosenfield Fund to support master of public health students based on financial need.
$25,000
(1 month)
ID 58003
Multistate Learning Collaborative for Public Health: Innovators in Accreditation and Other Systematic Performance and Capacity Assessment Processes
To create a peer network of innovator states with experience in designing and implementing a process for systematic assessment of local public health agency capacity and performance.
Program Sites
State of Florida Department of Health
Tallahassee, FL
$150,000
(15 months)
ID 59866
JSI Research and Training Institute, Inc. d/b/a/ Community Health Institute
Bow, NH
$149,939
(15 months)
ID 59872
Kansas Health Institute
Topeka, KS
$147,963
(15 months)
ID 59863
Michigan Public Health Institute
Okemos, MI
$149,308
(15 months)
ID 59868
State of Minnesota Department of Health
St. Paul, MN
$150,000
(15 months)
ID 59870
Missouri Institute for Community Health Inc.
Jefferson City, MO
$150,000
(15 months)
ID 59871
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health
Chapel Hill, NC
$149,419
(15 months)
ID 59874
State of Ohio Department of Health
Columbus, OH
$150,000
(15 months)
ID 59875
United Way of Illinois Inc.
Oak Brook, IL
$150,000
(15 months)
ID 59865
State of Washington Department of Health
Olympia, WA
$150,000
(15 months)
ID 59876
Other Program Activities
National Network of Public Health Institutes
New Orleans, LA
Open meeting for the Multistate Learning Collaborative for Public Health selected sites and for applicant sites not selected.
$83,113
(5 months)
ID 56935
Technical assistance and direction for the Multistate Learning Collaborative for Public Health.
$810,000
(15 months)
ID 58789
National Association of County and City Health Officials
Washington, DC
Communicating a common operational definition for local governmental public health agencies.
$400,000
(18 months)
ID 57248
Training newly appointed public health officials in applying knowledge and specific skills to their leadership roles.
$597,938
(1 year)
ID 58517
Developing recommendations for a national public health accreditation system to build state and local public health agency capacity.
$749,528
(18 months)
ID 58881
Workshop to address ethics and public health practice.
$40,000
(1 year)
ID 59893
National Association of Local Boards of Health
Bowling Green, OH
Identifying legal authority for public health governance in the United States.
$75,000
(1 year)
ID 57133
National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws
Chicago, IL
Uniform interstate act to grant volunteer health workers quick interstate recognition and protection and ensure surge capacity during emergencies.
$100,195
(1 year)
ID 57186
National Foundation for the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention Inc.
Atlanta, GA
Nonprofit administration of potential tobacco settlement funding for smoking cessation.
$49,595
(4 months)
ID 57483
Developing a program to improve cooperation among federal, state and local leaders when responding to natural and man-made disasters.
$561,136
(6 months)
ID 58631
National Network of Public Health Institutes
New Orleans, LA
Assessing and providing technical assistance for emerging public health institutes.
$847,106
(31 months)
ID 57396
North American Quitline Consortium
Phoenix, AZ
Improving the potential of U.S. quitlines to capitalize on tobacco policy control success.
$399,925
(2 years)
ID 58531
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health
Chapel Hill, NC
Pilot study of public health workforce competency, agency capacity and performance.
$102,337
(1 year)
ID 56915
Public Health Foundation
Washington, DC
Developing a Web-accessible database of community health status indicators.
$399,999
(16 months)
ID 58838
Public Health Institute
Oakland, CA
Sponsorship of the California Health Strategy Summit.
$50,000
(3 months)
ID 58047
Public Health Systems Research
To help establish the field of public health systems research as a needed resource that will enable governmental health agencies to improve their performance.
Program Sites
Center for Studying Health System Change
Washington, DC
Examining effective strategies that local communities have used to meet expanded public health workforce needs.
$56,652
(7 months)
ID 59943
Examining local community strategies to develop their public health surge capacity to handle emergencies affecting many people.
$67,173
(7 months)
ID 59945
Columbia University Health Sciences
New York, NY
Examining how intraorganizational public health networks are linked to process and outcomes.
$209,952
(2 years)
ID 59946
University of Kentucky Research Foundation
Lexington, KY
Assessment of training needs for public health financial managers.
$124,970
(18 months)
ID 59947
Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
Washington, DC
Examining state capacity to develop the 10 leading indicators defined in Healthy People 2010 overall and by geographic group.
$199,135
(15 months)
ID 59944
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN
Developing a program to expand the use of continuous quality improvement principles to public health agencies.
$200,002
(2 years)
ID 59951
University of Minnesota School of
Public Health
Minneapolis, MN
Examining public health system organization and public health performance in rural communities.
$199,070
(18 months)
ID 59950
Rand Corporation
Santa Monica, CA
Study on and development of a tool to measure connectivity among public health partnerships.
$195,991
(1 year)
ID 59948
University of Washington
Seattle, WA
Examining the relationship between local health department costs and county level disparities in mortality rates for African Americans and Caucasians.
$161,789
(1 year)
ID 59949
Other Program Activities
AcademyHealth
Washington, DC
Building an evidence base for public health systems research.
$500,002
(3 years)
ID 58271
Rand Corporation
Santa Monica, CA
Extending a learning collaborative for public health/pandemic preparedness.
$134,000
(8 months)
ID 58603
State Health Leadership Initiative
Program to accelerate the development of the leadership capacity of state health officers as policy-makers, administrators, and advocates for the health of the public.
Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government
Cambridge, MA
Evaluation of the State Health Leadership Initiative.
$149,825
(1 year)
ID 53543
Task Force for Child Survival and Development Inc.
Decatur, GA
Developing a new paradigm for the public health information infrastructure.
$568,681
(7 months)
ID 53531
Preparing an oral history of smallpox eradication in West Africa.
$19,620
(7 months)
ID 57258
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
Madison, WI
Vision of health for the 21st Century: a celebration for Surgeon General Koop.
$10,000
(5 months)
ID 58272
Young Epidemiology Scholars (YES); Program: A National Effort to Attract the Attention of Young Scholars to the Health of the Public
To attract the best and the brightest high school students to become the public health leaders of the future.
Program Sites
College Entrance Examination Board
New York, NY
$5,332,662
(3 years)
ID 47845
Other Program Activities
Montclair State University Foundation
Montclair, NJ
Increasing the use of the Young Epidemiology Scholars' teaching units.
$322,306
(3 years)
ID 58878