The CDC announced that it has awarded more than $176 million to 48 public health partners to strengthen the public health infrastructure and workforce in the United States.
“CDC’s public health partners are critical to building trust with communities and providing the essential services and capacity needed to face health threats,” CDC Director Mandy Cohen, MD, MPH, said in a press release.
The funds, awarded through the agency’s National Partners Cooperative Agreement (NPCA), cover the first year of a 5-year funding cycle to increase the knowledge, skills and abilities